Little Printer may seem like a throwback at first, but it’s actually a disruptive, weird, but undeniably innovative way to liberate digital content from its screen-based prison. It’s about making “the cloud” tangible and intimate again, by bringing it into the home in a physical way.

Despite my knee-jerk dislike of creating physical waste, I’ve found myself longing for physical artifacts lately. I want to print out a copy of every photo I’ve liked in the past few years. I want to use sticky notes in abundance and write one big fat word on each one, then rearrange them on a wall. (Lucky for me I get to do this in my grad program.) So I like the idea of this “little printer” converting the most ephemeral media of all—digital media—into momentarily precious tangibles that can be shared, swapped, collected, taped up on a fridge, and scribbled on. Digital media has gotten me feeling rather uncomfortably “light of being” lately. Maybe this is one way we can anchor ourselves back to earth?