RITI Printer Uses Your Coffee Grounds For Eco Ink 184
Jason S. writes to tell us that for those seeking to "go green" or those just wishing to try something different, RTI now offers a printer that uses coffee instead of ink. In addition to recycling your grounds, the printer also uses good old fashioned elbow grease to move the grounds cartridge back and forth, saving power. Sounds like a novelty that will die quickly as human sloth reasserts itself. "Hosted by Core77 and Inhabitat, this year's Greener Gadgets Design Competition resulted in an incredible crop of innovative consumer electronics designs, and we're excited to offer you the first scoop on some of our favorite designs! Jeon Hwan Ju's RITI printer works by replacing environmentally un-friendly inkjet cartridges with the dregs from your daily coffee. Simply place used grounds in the ink case, insert a piece of paper, and move the ink case left and right to print text."
And later... (Score:3, Funny)
if you run out of coffee, you can brew up some TPS reports!
Compost (Score:4, Funny)
But if I use my coffee grounds for ink, what will I mix with eggshells to put in my garden?
Re:Compost (Score:2, Funny)
(not a gardener, I take no responsibility for your plants)
Yum, yum. Recycled, recycled Kopi Luwak (Score:2, Funny)
Meh! (Score:4, Funny)
It has some limitations.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Coka-Colaâ (Score:5, Funny)
The ink would corrode the paper completely away.
even greener (Score:5, Funny)
Move hand around to create "printouts".
Re:Coka-Colaâ (Score:3, Funny)
Singularity!
PC LOAD COFFEE (Score:5, Funny)
What the fuck does that mean?
It uses the grounds? (Score:3, Funny)
Old news (Score:4, Funny)
I have a mug-shaped coffee printer. Currently, it can only print 'o', but I suppose that's good enough if you're a ghost in UO.
Re:Old news (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Compost (Score:1, Funny)
obviously you have never ran out of toilet paper
Re:Supply (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Colored Pie Charts (Score:3, Funny)
Browns come out quite well.
Re:Supply (Score:1, Funny)
right, but you'd only get a week of free ink + elbow grease before BOOOOOOOM your heart explodes.
Re:What else are you going to use used grounds for (Score:3, Funny)
Brewing your PHB's java?
Re:Coming soon (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Colored Pie Charts (Score:2, Funny)
UPS (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Compost (Score:3, Funny)
To bring another fact into the debate, leaves aren't wood.