You’ve gone without a printer for long enough — this one from HP is on sale for just $59

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If you enjoy decorating your space with photos of loved ones, modern art, or maybe just pictures of cute animals, you need to make sure you buy a printer that produces high-quality copies of them. Nobody wants to see a framed low-res portrait on regular printer paper on your mantle — go glossy. The HP Envy 5052 will do just the trick and will help you keep your decor up to date. 

Now $40 off at Walmart, the HP Envy 5052 has dropped down to $59.99 from $99.99. Printers usually aren’t on the cheap side of the spectrum, so grab this one while it’s available. 

Great looking borderless photos are just the tip of the iceberg with the HP Envy 5052. Also included in this wireless all-in-one printer is a touch screen that assists you in easily navigating the device’s many options (print, copy, scan, etc.), double-sided printing, and Bluetooth capabilities. One of the coolest features here is the HP companion app, which can connect to the Envy’s dual band WiFi and help you manage (and print, of course) your photos by communicating with your printer right from your smartphone. With its vast features and intuitive design, the HP Envy 5052 is a superb printer to have at your side.  Read more…

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This impressive, all-in-one HP printer is on sale for nearly $60 off

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Work from home? Finding a good and reliable home printer can be difficult. Most models can’t do everything you want, so you end up buying a number of different machines when you really just want one that can do it all. It’s time to up your productivity game with the HP Officejet 4652 All-in-One Printer, which is now on sale for just $39.88 — that’s $60 off.

Print, copy, scan, and even fax documents and color photos throughout your busy workday. This handy all-in-one is really next level, as it works wirelessly via your home’s WiFi network with MacOS and Windows 10 laptops and desktop computers, as well as iOS and Android smartphones and tablets. It’s even compatible with Google Cloud Printing, if you work with a Google Chromebook. Read more…

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The Polaroid Pop is one of the most disappointing instant cameras I’ve ever used

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Polaroid Pop
$199.99
The Good

Has a GIF maker mode

The Bad

Slow autofocus • Laggy touchscreen • Printed photos aren’t stickers • Display scratches really easily • Crummy video quality

The Bottom Line

The Polaroid Pop tries to bridge analog and digital, but the design is so mediocre you’ll end up throwing a fit before you get any fun shots.

Mashable Score2.25
Cool Factor3.0
Learning Curve2.0
Performance2.0
Bang for the Buck2.0

If you’re itching for the good ol’ days of Polaroid cameras and instant film, you have a couple of options:

  1. Buy an old Polaroid camera and get some Polaroid Originals Type-600 film for it.

  2. Buy one of Polaroid Originals’ new instant cameras, like the very fun OneStep 2.

  3. Buy one of Fujifilm’s Instax instant cameras (I’ve reviewed many over the years such as the retro-tastic Mini 90 and Wide 300, and the Mini 70). Read more…

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This video claiming ink cartridges are a scam is going massively viral

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It’s a well known fact that printers are probably the most annoying piece of technology in the world.

No one likes them. They’re confusing, they go wrong all the time, and despite the fact everything else is becoming more user friendly — phones; cars; computers — printers seem to be woefully anchored in the past.

Well, YouTuber Gregory Austin McConnell is angry about this too. Very angry.

On Thursday, he published a video titled “Ink Cartridges Are A Scam”. At the time of writing it’s already racked up around 300,000 views, and it’s sitting high on the top page of Reddit’s r/videos sub. Read more…

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Lifeprint’s ‘Harry Potter’-like moving photos are now big enough to hang up

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What if your photos could move, like they do in Harry Potter? With augmented reality they can. 

Lifeprint got a head start wowing people with its augmented reality wizardry printer, but the 2×3 photos it spit out left a lot to be desired. People wanted bigger photos — shots they could really see — and now the company’s launching a larger AR printer that prints out 3×4.5 photos.

The new Lifeprinter is physically bigger to accommodate the larger prints, but barely more expensive. It’s priced at $150 (the original costs $130) and is available exclusively from Apple. Read more…

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