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Xerox Develops Ink To Print Circuits On Nearly Anything

3:07AM Rosa Golijan | Wearable electronics aren’t news, but being able to make them cheaply and easily is. Xerox has developed an ink with which you can print circuits onto plastic, film, fabric and nearly anything you can think of. More »
Gadgets

The Original Ethernet Cable And Cable Diagrams

9:00AM Jason Chen | BoingBoing Gadgets found this photo of the original original Ethernet cable at Xerox PARC, devised by Bob Metcalfe so he could rig up a local system of sharing things digitally. More »
Peripherals

More About Buying A Printer Than You Possibly Wanted To Read

12:50AM Matt Buchanan | The bottom line of Bill Howard’s epic consideration of a new colour laser printer is that cheap printers can cost more over their lifetime than nicer, slightly pricier printers, so you might as well get a good one. [Gearlog]
Gadgets

Xerox’s ColorQube Promises Cheap Colour Printing With Solid Ink

5:40AM Sean Fallon | Xerox’s new ColorQube printer promises to revolutionize the pricey colour-printing game using a waxy ink that can reduce the cost per page by as much as 62%. More »
Gadgets

Xerox Solid Ink Looks Like a Crayon, Feels Like Plastic

3:40AM Mark Wilson | Over at NextFest, we came across an entire tree’s worth of Xerox’s cartridge-less solid ink, a technology we’d heard about but never seen in person. They feel more like a hard, textured plastic than a waxy crayon (which is its most touted analogy), and the ink doesn’t rub off in your hand at all. And yes, Xerox, we’ll be happy to buy your product that reduces ink waste by 90% if you’d kindly release it to the market. More »