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Xerox’s ColorQube

“Aside from the fact that solid ink technology is considered as an innovative approach to printing in general, which no other company seems to have duplicated thus far, the concept has a lot of environmental advantages that are held in such high importance nowadays. Since the technology uses solid ink that no longer required to be held in cartridges, it generates 90% less supplies waste. It reportedly uses 9 percent less lifecycle energy, and also produces ten percent fewer greenhouse gases when compared with other laser devices.

Xerox also claims that using solid ink technology can reduce the price of color printing by as much as 62%, which will enable companies to change their attitude towards color printing by making it more affordable.”

Read more at Printer Ink and Cartridge blog

Spore: Game of the Decade?

The latest Fortune calls Spore, from creator Will Wright, the game of the year. Due out this summer, if it has any of the impact his previous Sims series did, it will be around for much longer and in many more user modified formats - via widgets on a Facebook page, animated videoclips passed around on YouTube and 3-D printing.

Here is a demo Will Wright did for NASA recently.

"Microzoning"

Counter-intuitive, but...

"And even in the United States, he said, Kodak is benefiting from the moves that some publishers are making to recoup at least some of those lost advertising dollars. He notes that The Chicago Tribune and some others are trying “microzoning” — printing several versions of the paper in the same city, each with ads aimed at a specific neighborhood."

New York Times