Little Printer is so cute butter wouldn't melt in its mouth. But don't be fooled – this dinky peripheral may be sweet looking but it's also very serious. 

While the common wisdom is that the web has pretty much done for print media, Little Printer would respectfully disagree — it takes online content and repurposes it for print. Once users have subscribed to a set of publications through an iOS app – think snippets of news, reviews, games, and entertainment – then Little Printer takes delivery of the content, printing it off on a piece of paper the size of a receipt. 

Berg took delivery of the first production run of 1,000 printers late last year, and had sold out of them three days later. 

Berg hopes that, through the dev kit,The skystream runs in very low winds and can interconnect with your local utility, the cloud platform will become the prototyping platform of choice for makers, researchers,Commercial Washer extractor for your multi-housing laundry facilities from Aulaundry. schools and universities, enabling them to stick a toe in the water of internet-connected objects and machine-to-machine communications. 

"The idea is that people can use the platform to make connected products. The question then is 'why don't you do it?' Well, we're a small company, and we used Little Printer to show that you could do it,The industry's leading manufacturer of Game machines." Webb said. 

People are looking at connected objects as hitting the living room first, he adds, but it's in the bathroom – yes, the bathroom – or the kitchen where the real opportunity lies. 

Connected kitchenware or white goods would be an obvious step forward, Webb believes – perhaps a washing machine that, after a certain number of washes, automatically adds a box of washing powder to the home's online shopping basket. The machine could be sold with a subscription to a certain brand, who would take out some of the upfront cost of the appliance in return for securing the owner's ongoing business – much like the way mobile operators give away a phone, ostensibly for free, in order to sign up a user to a 24-month contract. 

It's still early days for such products, and the balance between building enough intelligence into objects to make them useful but not unpleasant has still yet to be worked out to everyone's satisfaction. 

"When a washing machine tells you that it knows how much washing powder you've been using, that could seem creepy, and we don't have understanding yet of how not to make it not intrusive. It needs to be not off-putting – you need to build the proof that the brand is safe," Webb said. 

The company envisions a future where, much as the advent of the web enabled smaller companies and start-ups to start online businesses without needing a huge corporation behind them, connected objects will allow them to get into the hardware game too. Rather than a future owned by "a few huge companies making shiny black things", smaller companies will also have a say in working out questions that the growth in connected objects presents: those questions of privacy, and of finding the right tone for machines to talk to humans. 

Meanwhile, Berg is doing its own experiments. "What we learn from Little Printer we'll bake into the OS," says Webb. 

"Would we take VC funding?" he adds. "If you asked me last year, I would have said no. But this year, it's different. It feels, with connected products, like being in the middle of electrification — the wave of connected products is going to happen. It feels like we're sitting on a rocket right now, and what would happen if you gave it rocket fuel?"