100 pages per minute: attention to deforestation

More 1, exit 6 to the second page, it should be...

Brother has not yet unveiled the price of its new monochrome printer which, according to the manufacturer, is the fastest in the world, able to bring out up to 100 pages per minute... Under these conditions, better to use recycled paper for the eating of trees.

Technologically, the print head is composed of 5198 hawks spread over a surface area of 21.5 cm wide. At the time, it has no need to move and issues flow as it beats all speed records. A capable of printing in a single print head passes on the front but the back also.

Of course, this last has several bins to manage multiple formats and types of paper, while avoiding having to reload too often this beast that will only bite of ramets which will be proposed.

According to Brother, this high-speed printer to divide the carbon footprint and printing costs by two a more conventional model. Present in Berlin to discover this new printer, our colleagues from the digital returned with this impressive presentation video.

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A minute on the Internet, it is...

It is crazy what can make Internet users around the world in a single minute on the Internet.

695 000 articles updated in Facebook, 600 new videos available on YouTube, 70 registered domain names, 13 000 downloaded iPhone applications, 6 600 photos added on Flickr, 370 000 voice via Skype conversations or 695 000 searches on Google... And all this in small 60 seconds! It is the activity of the social Internet condensed on computer graphics proposed by the Shanghai Web Designers.

Note that other tools exist on the Web to measure the activity of the major social platforms, as developed by Gary Hayes that simply allowed to run a minute before you compare the results with those of this graphics. If there are important disparities between these results, particularly with regard to the Google Research (695 000 per minute according to these designers, 1 400 000 depending on the tool of Gary Hayes) e-mails sent (168 million emails sent every minute here against 205 million), or the rest of the results about glue. Anyway, we can well imagine that measure this activity is a real puzzle and that the results are to take purposes only...

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