ZINK Robot Prints On Your Walls
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 30 of June , 2009 at 4:33 am
You might be familiar with ZINK if you’re an OhGizmo reader, but if not, ZINK is a special kind of heat sensitive paper that allows for instant color printing without ink. It’s showing up in the next generation of Polaroid-y cameras that poop out completed prints. Seriously, see for your self. Anyhoo, ZINK is sponsoring a design competition “to imagine new and innovative solutions that enable and enhance printing with the ZINK Technology,” and one of the finalists is David Bulfin’s Inchworm robot.
The robot uses suction treads to crawl along walls covered with ZINK wallpaper, and as it moves, a thermal unit on its belly prints out text or pictures or designs of your own. The bot is connected to the internet, so can continually update your walls with the latest and greatest from social networking sites or RSS feeds or whatever else you want. When it has covered your entire house, simply stick up more paper and let the bot keep on doing its thing… It’s sort of like having every room in your house covered with a giant screen that refreshes reeeeeaaaaally slowly.
[ Zink Concept Finalists ] VIA [ Core77 ]
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