Comments on: RITI Coffee Printer Uses Your Coffee Grounds for Eco Ink!

By: Jumpus

Jumpus — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:36:32 +0000

It appears to only be a concept prototype; they don’t appear to have actually done the part where they figure out how to make it work.

By: Inhabitat » Tweet-a-Watt Wins the Greener Gadgets Design Competition!

Inhabitat » Tweet-a-Watt Wins the Greener Gadgets Design Competition! — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:09:49 +0000

[...] the session off by walking the audience through some of the more notable entries, including the RITI Coffee Ground Printer, several Cardboard Computers, and the Environmental Traffic [...]

By: Mürekkep yerine çay veya kahve kullanan yazıcı

Mürekkep yerine çay veya kahve kullanan yazıcı — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:46:48 +0000

[...] RITI adı verilen bu çevre dostu yazıcı yepyeni ve sıradışı bir mürekkep sistemine dayanıyor. dayandığı nokta ise mürekkep yerine kahve telvesi veya çayın kullanılması ve bunun yanında çalışması için hiç elektriğe ihtiyaç duymaması. ilk başta biraz tuhaf gibi görünse de sürekli değiştirilen kartuşlar ve kartuşların pahalı olması gibi durumlar düşünüldüğünde hiç de garip görünmüyor. [...]

By: moops

moops — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:37:15 +0000

The tweet-a-watt is the bomb-diggity – i’m a maker myself and totally into the diy ethic as a means of living, so it gets my vote.

By: ellindo809

ellindo809 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:20:44 +0000

Whee can i get one and average pricing?

By: chrisp68

chrisp68 — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:35:13 +0000

This is a silly idea… why print at all. Most systems today are paperless anyway. More useless junk that will end up in landfills. Put your coffee grounds in the compost heap.

By: zandar

zandar — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:12:50 +0000

Actually, I think the additional labor is a nice, meditative touch… until you have to print thirty pages instead of three. then it would get cumbersome pretty quickly.

I’m imagining something spring-loaded… yes, a windup printer. it would go for ten pages and need a recrank. or heck, maybe more pages if done efficiently.

By: Calantha.J

Calantha.J — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:14:12 +0000

This is a great idea and A wonderful new gadget. Though it requires a bit of manual labor it is great money saver ,and work out for that matter ;3, and ideal for casual print jobs.

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swag Says:

My favorite greener gadget is no new gadget at all. In the sequence of reduce, reuse, recycle, I’ll stick with reduce and not entertain new “gadgets” to be “eco-friendly”. And if I honestly must get something to be “eco-friendly”, I’ll get something used, thank you very much.

We cannot consume and buy our way to eco-friendliness.
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I understand that you would rather not spend more resources making new items and instead get used devices and recycling what would be junked. But by this logic one would also say that they would rather buy a used car than spare the new resources to make a Fuel Cell car to drive instead. I believe to long-term saving of such new eco gadgets outweigh the resources used to make them.

By: Gooberweevil

Gooberweevil — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:41:15 +0000

“We cannot consume and buy our way to eco-friendliness” is probably the most uneducated statement I’ve ever heard. We must consume the eco-friendly products to push production and research. Without a consumer, no one will put in the time, effort and money to develop better more environmentally-friendly products. That’s the nature of Capitalism. Consumers drive the market and if the consumer doesn’t point the market to a greener, better planet then we are all doomed.

I love the idea… the human action idea might be a bit of a hard sell though. I think focusing on making a quality coffee-ink printer should be first and foremost… limiting the electric power needed should be second.

By: swag

swag — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:49:56 +0000

We cannot consume and buy our way to eco-friendliness.

By: Bambubruddha

Bambubruddha — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:09:10 +0000

cool!
does it work with blood?