Doomed to fail? - digg this
No not my writing project, I've been setting up a sub blog where my NaNoWriMo novel will go. Rather this:
HP has created a printer that is essentially an email appliance for people who don't have a computer. It costs $150 and for ten bucks a month or a hundred a year it will print out any email sent to a special Presto address. It will only print mail from specified users and it will also print calendars and news feeds that you select. It dials in periodically and downloads whatever content that awaits it.
On the surface this seems pretty cool for folks who don't have or don't want a computer, but want to be able to receive email. Of course they can't send email. I'm not even sure as to how they can select calendars and newsfeeds to print without internet access. Sure the initial setup takes place over the phone, but after that wouldn't you need some way to personalize your settings? Or do you just call your nephew and have him do it?
I could maybe see tech savvy people using this sort of device to save them some time printing email and daily news, but most of them don't object to reading off the screen and understand saving trees. They would also know how to block most spam and use an RSS feed. And without a high speed LAN jack I just don't see them wanting to tie up a phone line (assuming they even have a land line) with the added possibility of long distance charges and everything that we thought we were getting away from.
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Does this maybe have a sheet scanner in it that will upload an image of a scanned paper and email it? Do you have a link to this?
It doesn't have a scanner, although that would be a good idea.
Here's the link to amazon with its specs. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000JERC8A/ref=nosim/uncrate-20