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Anger? Upset? I'm neither. I'm amused that the Hacker News crowd are so disconnected from reality as to spend £200 on something like this. A friend of mine on T

Anger? Upset? I'm neither. I'm amused that the Hacker News crowd are so disconnected from reality as to spend £200 on something like this. A friend of mine on Twitter yesterday pointed out that £200 is enough to clothe her two kids for a year. I'll sit back, save my £200, giggle slightly that you call a novelty printer a "tool" (for what, exactly?) and sigh that making such a pointless device gets you the adulation of the crack-addled UX design community who seem more interested in creating "delightful" user experiences than anything that actually improves the world in a meaningful or tangible way.

scraplab 14y ago
Sorry, you just seem very upset about it all. I don't recognise "crack-addled UX design community" you think this belongs to. Everyone I know working on Little Printer is intelligent, thoughtful and very grounded in reality. They've spent a long time working on a product they want to make, solving difficult problems, from logistics and manufacturing through to RF and power electronics. It's expensive, niche and unashamedly beautiful. That's OK. Not everyone has to be curing cancer 16 hours a day. I'm glad that we live in a world where people can make silly, enjoyable things too. It's up to them to produce the product they want to make, and it's up the market to decide whether it's viable. Everyone makes a different value judgment, and that's fine.