Shinko Electric's SP-250, for those precious TV moments
From the parallel space-time in which Japanese technology occasionally appears to be developed comes Shinko Electric's SP-250, a remote-controlled printer that you can hook up to a TV (or anything else with an NTSC video out) and use to print out frames at will. It also has a card slot for CompactFlash, MemoryStick, and SD/MMC cards and will print out JPEG/TIFF images. As it's a dye sublimation printer we suppose the quality should be decent, but it doesn't seem to print out on anything much bigger than postcards, which could make the only suggested use they've come up with—printing out recipes from cooking shows—a little unrealistic unless you're into squinting a lot. It also costs about $375, which seems like a lot of cash for a little fun.
