How many times have it happened to you to find yourself on the street and want to print content directly from your smartphone? Whether it is a photo or simply a document, you will certainly need a PC to connect the smartphone to the printer (unless it is a WiFi type), a solution that definitely has poco to do with portability. Well, the company led by Lei Jun always offers a solution to the problem, such as the new gadget appeared on the company's crowdfunding platform, aka the Xiaomi Youdao Memobird G4, a pocket printer that can be connected to the smartphone wirelessly, using Bluetooth.
We are talking about a thermal printer, so to speak the same mechanism that is used to print tax receipts and / or ATMs, but no less interesting. Starting from the companion app that simplifies instant black and white printing, possible thanks to a high-definition print head with 306 dpi. Of course we don't need ink, as everything happens by means of thermal transmission technology.
Xiaomi Youdao Memobird G4: pocket printer, cheap and smart
The Xiaomi Youdao Memobird G4 printer has dimensions equal to 86,8 x 79,3 x 39 mm and a weight of only 165 grams, while the price at which it is proposed (currently only in China) is 299 yuan, equal to approximately 38 euros at current exchange rates . Everything is powered by a built-in 900 mAh lithium polymer battery that gives prints up to 8 thermal paper rolls, while charging takes place in approximately 2 hours. Returning to the Xiaomi companion app Youdao Memobird G4, this will allow you to send documents, images and much more directly to the printer, as well as offering a database that supports a series of questions for the school, from elementary to higher: in short, a new strategy to carry the leaflets with the solutions to the problems of physics, mathematics etc ..
You will be thinking that the ecomomic cost of the printer certainly does not go hand in hand with thermal paper refills. Well you are wrong because the recharges are the strong point of this product, as you can easily find them on the market, as the printer is fed with the classic reel of receipts.
