# Tiny Personalized Newspapers 'Little Printer' Shows Miniature Updates Important to You By Parul Rohatgi | Published 2011-11-30 | Tech Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/personalized-printed-newspaper References: [news.cnet](http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57332921-1/little-printer-chews-your-feeds-into-a-bite-size-newspaper/) & [bergcloud](http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/) [Little Printer](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/mini-media) allows you to start your day with a cup of coffee and a tiny personalized printed newspaper, giving you not just the news, but also updates from your friends. Little Printer is a cute, little cube-shaped printer, which has come into being through a partnership between Berg (a design consultancy), Foursquare, [The Guardian](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/reclaim-your-brain), Nike, Arup and [Google](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/fujifilm-instax-mini-link-3). Using a smartphone app you can setup what you want in your personalized printed newspaper -- news feed, puzzles, things to do, birthday reminders, among others. You can also set up whether you want your newspaper once or twice a day. The printer works in a way similar to sales receipt. It has a spool of paper, which is printed using inkless thermal printer. And at the touch of a button, the Little Printer curates the online content, and you can get your own personalized printed newspaper! ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 4.4/10 - Popularity: 51% | Activity: 73% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 50% men, 50% women - Primary generations: Millennial, Gen X - Top markets: North America ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Tech](https://www.trendhunter.com/tech) > [Gadgets](https://www.trendhunter.com/gadgets) ## Key Themes ### Why This Trend Is Growing - **Personalized Printing:** Opportunity to disrupt the publishing industry by providing personalized printed newspapers to consumers through a smartphone app. - **Smart Home Devices:** Opportunity to create a new smart home device category with small, user-friendly printers that curate personalized content from various sources. - **Internet of Things (iot):** Opportunity to integrate devices like Little Printer into the IoT to automatically curate and print personalized content based on user preferences. ### Industries Being Reshaped - **Printing and Publishing:** Opportunity to innovate within the printing and publishing industries by providing personalized printed newspapers to consumers. - **Smart Home Technology:** Opportunity to create a new category of smart home devices with personalized content curation and printing capabilities. - **Information Technology:** Opportunity to leverage IoT and advancements in information technology to create devices like Little Printer that curate and print personalized content for consumers. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Open-Source Receipt Printers](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/project-scribe.md) - [Sticky Note Printers](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/nemonic-gen-2.md) - [Subtle Smartphone-Friendly Printers](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/samsung-image-box.md) - [Pocket-Sized Photo Printers](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/ivy-2-mini-photo-printer.md) - [Pocket-Sized Smartphone Printers](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/mobile-instant-photo-printer.md) - [Instant Film Smartphone Printers](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/fujifilm-instax-mini-link-3.md) - [Miniature AI-Powered Printers](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/a1-mini.md) - [Artwork-Friendly Smartphone Printers](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/fujifilm-instax-mini-link-plus.md) - [Palm-Sized 3D Printers](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/open-source-3d-printer.md)