How do you like the idea of moving the wall, an integral part of today’s social networks, to the real world? Liat Segal is obviously a fan of social networking who wants to leave messages for friends not only on the virtual wall, but also on quite tangible one. To do so, Liat invented Cellular Wall Printer, a device resembling good old impact printers.

The device is a combination of an Android-smartphone and servo motors, the latter control the movement of each of the seven markers. An “adapter” between the phone and motors is the IOIO programmable board. The Cellular Wall Printer receives messages on a smartphone (SMS, Twitter or Facebook), which it prints on any wall (or surface, for that matter).

The inventor claims that the device copes with printing well even when the printer operator moves. You can get the whole idea by watching this video:

Chances are Wax-On printer becomes the most simple product of its kind. And it will, when transformed from a concept to a serial device. The author of this development, designer Faris Elmasu, believes the main advantage of this printer is the use technology of solid or thermoplastic wax-based dyes.

This technology really has many advantages over traditional ink printers. Maintenance of such office equipment does not cause virtually no hassle, even cartridges are replaced in one step, leaving no residue on hands and clothes. The original design of the printer is worth noting for being positioned vertically and having a slim build. A device like this would look cool on anyone’s table. Wax-On looks obviously nicer than all modern printers.

At first glance it seems that what you see on the picture below is another docking station for Apple devices. It is not so, and actually is much more interesting than that. Bolle BP-10 is a small printer designed to print photos up to 4×6 inches.

Built in the traditional Apple design, the cube printer boasts a full four-color printing and an interesting mechanism for the process of making pictures. BP-10 applies one color at a time, then shows the result to user and “swallows” the page for the next run. The quality of printing this device offer is very decent level, but the cost of BP-10 can scare customers away. Not everyone would agree to pay £120 ($190) for a printer, even such interesting as this.

HP has announced three new inkjet multifunction printing devices: Envy 100, Officejet Pro 8500A Plus and Photosmart eStation. All three new devices support ePrint network printing service presented recently.

By looking at the HP Envy 100 e-All-in-One you can hardly say that this is a full-fledged MFP, but the device really can print (including documents sent to the mobile network), scan and copy. It is equipped with the input and output trays, which are inserted and ejected like a DVD drive tray. MFP is equipped with two cartridges (with black and tricolor – cyan, magenta and yellow inks) to print monochrome documents at 30 pages per minute and color documents at the speed of 25 pages per minute. HP Envy 100 features a 3.45-inch touch screen for both device control and for setting and working with web-applications. MFP will go on sale some of these days, the cost of the device is $ 249.

The main feature of the Photosmart eStation MFP is a removable tablet with 7-inch touch screen running the Android OS version 2.1 (version 2.2 will be available for it at the end of the fall). The tablet supports electronic book reader (with access to the Barns & Noble online bookstore), equipped with the Yahoo! search engine, but does not have access to the Android Market and has no pre-installed Google applications. It is reported that the battery life of the tablet ranges from four to six hours; the tablet interacts with the printer over a Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n adapter.

The Photosmart eStation, being a flagship device, differs from other new products by a number of parameters: it has five separate ink tanks and the maximum print speed is higher (33 pages per minute in monochrome mode, and when printing color documents — 32 pages per minute). Maximum (so-called optimized) print resolution in this model can reach 9600 x 2400 dots per inch. The unit is equipped with 64 MB of memory and SD memory card readers as well as USB 2.0 interface port.