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The Internet of Things (IoT) is something of a buzz-phrase right now, and locking down the IoT is certainly something that vendors across both security and hardware industries are talking up. The problem with the publicity surrounding stories of 'things' that have been hacked is that, well, they never really …

We might all imagine how many reams of paper HP must go through testing their printers before they hit the market, and how they must pass certain tests and get tweaked along the way. If you envision rooms full of printers and the smell of heated toner hitting the paper, …

HP announced this morning a new printer that’s the first of its kind: the TopShot LaserJet Pro M275. What makes this printer different? Of course it has the usual scanning feature that the HP LaserJet’s have featured for years, but with a new spin, 3D scanning. The TopShot doesn’t have …

Those clever boffins at the University of Bath, England have managed to develop a machine called [URL="http://dev.www.reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome"]RepRap[/URL] which can, effectively, replicate itself. The boffins themselves describe it as being a 3D printer which can print, or rather produce, real mechanical parts. Perhaps most interesting is the claim that RepRap can …

Although it sounds too good to be true, Toshiba Europe has released details of what it claims to be the first rewritable printer in the world. Yes, you read that right, a printer that can print onto the same piece of paper as many as 500 times. In what may …