I’m pretty sure that this has been around a while, but I have seen a few more articles about it lately so I thought I would mention it. A company called Presto Services has teamed up with HP and developed a printer that receives and prints emails for people who don’t have computers. Someone sends you an email through Presto, they get it and then they send it to your printer. The printer is basically just a regular HP inkjet, although it also designed to print pictures that people email to you.

As you can guess from the concept (and the pictures on Presto’s site) this is aimed at older people who either don’t have a computer or who don’t have the knowledge/patience to regular receive email. A big part of it is the fact that you can email photos, so conceivably a grandparent can keep up with the family goings-on without having to check email. But, won’t 1000 spam emails about V1@gr a and m0rt ga ges get printed out every day? No, kids, they won’t. You have to be on approved sender list in order to email someone with one of these.