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by danielsoneg 5311 days ago
They've got the design down absolutely pat - the look of the item, the look of the print-outs, the site, the video - it's great.

They've also got some valid uses for it in there - yeah, we've all got screens, but those screens are used for an awful lot of other stuff - this gives one quick place to find a couple useful pieces of information, a whole lot faster than otherwise.

It is, however, absurdly wasteful. Anything I can read off that, I can save on my phone for a pretty comparable reading experience.

I think it's the software, more than the hardware, that's attractive - Give me that information in an app on the same schedule that little box would print it, and I'd use it. It looks like a pretty good filter and delivery mechanism, but I've got no use for a bunch of scraps of thermal paper…