BERG Little Printer available to pre-order

Erm. $300 bucks for a thermal printer, seriously?<p>Those can be had for $50 on Amazon.<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/High-speed-Receipt-Thermal-Printer-Black/dp/B005HH2YVY/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/High-speed-Receipt-Thermal-Printer-Bla...</a>

Shame, this looks very fun, but for fun purchases, my "I'll buy that right now!" price limit is usually around the 50 GBP mark. 200 GBP can buy me too much stuff that is less "just for fun" and more genuinely useful, not to mention saving towards still more expensive items.<p>That said, I don't doubt that there are some people that will a) find this genuinely useful and b) can therefore justify the price.<p>Best of luck!

It fails to reveal what problem it solves; it even fails to reveal what use it could be. The marketing here is beyond terrible, and make it looks like a useless, expensive gadget.<p>(Hint: As many, I have way too many gadgets and stuff around; I need another gadget to be seriously useful to even consider the possibility of acquiring it).

Hold on... so we're going back to printing things out again, things that are easily accessible on our phones or computers? Really? I don't quite understand why anyone would want this apart from the gimmick factor.

If you're interested in getting involved in tiny printers, but £200 is more than you can afford, then you can always make your own: <a href="http://gofreerange.com/hello-printer" rel="nofollow">http://gofreerange.com/hello-printer</a>

With this announcement, might be a good time to review my design analysis of the BERG Little Printer. I compared it to a related, unreleased "alternative printer" project I designed several years ago:<p><a href="http://vitor.io/little-printer-design-analysis" rel="nofollow">http://vitor.io/little-printer-design-analysis</a>

Why does this need its own wifi bridge? This is supposed to be a cool gadget, yet it can't even use standard wifi?

Its far too expensive for what it does. in the UK its £200 + shipping, while you can buy a brand new 7" tablet (the Nexus 7) for £159 + shipping.<p>And i daresay you'll get much more use out of a tablet than a small printer. This ones DOA.<p>unless the price drops to around £19.99 it will never see any traction. (Also no mention is made of how much the replacement paper rolls will cost; since its so dependent on consumables that's a glaring omission on their part)

The €210 price tag is a bit too steep for me. I would have bought one for €60.

I came here to complain about the price. Looks like I don't have to. I still think it is a nifty idea. My GF wants one for printing off recipes but now that we know the price, that isn't going to happen.

Just ordered one. Completely useless, expensive but ridiculously cool. Who's going to be the first to write a Hacker News publisher for it?

Hm, it is nonsense, but I can imagine all sorts of random fun happening. One idea: what if upon press of a button, I could get a printout of the next task on my TODO list? (I know this is probably not what the BERG cloud does, just thinking about little printers in general).

I like the aesthetics of the hardware, but don't like the environmental impact this will make.<p>In my personal opinion design should strive to solve problems or answer hard to answer questions like 'how can I print without the environmental impact printing has had for quite some time' instead of creating aesthetically pleasing toys.<p>For this same reason I'm in dubio about 3D printing &#38; fablabs in general. Unless we find a way to re-use materials we're just creating more junk and roadside litter.<p>Maybe BERG should rethink Little Printer and let it output eatable paper so we can use the freshly printed news as part of our breakfast ;)

BERG Little Printer with UK postage and packing: £205.50<p>16Gb iPhone 4S on Vodafone's cheapest contract (£26): £219.<p>Can someone explain why anyone would buy this thing?

All of you talking about this as a printer appear to have missed the point very slightly. This isn't a general purpose printer, its more like a personalized newspaper producer.<p>Edit: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6nVVdwa3bs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6nVVdwa3bs</a>

Their price point seems a bit crazy, my brother just started doing a project in a similar vein. <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1953425088/mprinter-an-analog-printer-for-a-digital-world" rel="nofollow">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1953425088/mprinter-an-a...</a>

It would be nice if one could place this in one's toilet and if the paper it prints on was toilet paper

You know, my mom still prints 80% of her emails. Maybe she needs this.

I don't understand what this printer is trying to solve, or prove, or to showcase. I mean the webshop is nice, perhaps it is a showcase for their webshop?<p>Give me a clue??

We're back to "ticker tape." (Except thermal printers have little Steampunk aesthetic value.)

Whimsy goes a long way. People own plenty of things with dubious utility.