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How colorful wall art is printed with a letterpress

<ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://niceandgraphic.com">Nice &amp; Graphic</a> <keyword id="173141" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="prints">prints</keyword> <keyword id="1349505" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="colorful">colorful</keyword> wall art with positive messages.</li><li>The art is printed with a Vandercook press.</li><li>The same process was used to print newspapers in the 15th century.</li></ul><p><em>The following is a transcript of the <keyword id="21654" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="video">video</keyword>.</em></p><p>Michelle Dwyer of Nice &amp; Graphic creates colorful prints with a 1900s <keyword id="6424426" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="printing">printing</keyword> press. Her prints include bright colors and positive quotes. First, she picks a font from the type cases. Each letter is made of wood. She arranges the letters and fills in the negative spaces with blank blocks called "furniture." Then she locks all the letters in place with a quoin key. She adds a few <keyword id="6497982" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Ink">ink</keyword> colors onto the rollers to create a gradient effect. The machine starts mixing the colors evenly. Finally, she moves the rollers across the woodblock letters and feeds the machine paper to create a print. This process was used to print books and newspapers in the 15th century. To clean up, Michelle runs the machine and wipes it with a rag. She uses the press at the London Centre for Book Arts. Her hope is to spread positive messages around the world. </p>

How a professional letterpress printer makes wedding invitations

<ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/inkypress/">Inky Press</a> is a <keyword id="1660910" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="letterpress">letterpress</keyword> <keyword id="53666" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Printer">printer</keyword> specializing in <keyword id="1315180" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="wedding-invitations">wedding invitations</keyword> and business cards.</li><li>Chelsea Cuykendall designs each one with the client and makes them by hand.</li><li>She has to switch out each piece and maintain a steady rhythm with her foot on the treadle</li></ul><p><em>The following is a transcript of the <keyword id="21654" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="video">video</keyword>.</em></p><p>How a professional letterpress printer makes <keyword id="6358814" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="wedding">wedding</keyword> <keyword id="624163" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="invitations">invitations</keyword>. Chelsea Cuykendall specializes in letterpress printing. The technique creates imprinted text and images. To start making the <keyword id="6373314" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Design">design</keyword>, a letterpress plate is made. This is called a photopolymer. Put simply, it's a stamp made from a resin...Used to ink the designs onto the paper. Mixing the ink color is next. Chelsea typically mixes three or four inks to get the desired color. Then the paper is cut to size. She inks up the press to get started. To keep printing continuously, she has to multitask...Switching out each piece of paper and maintaining a steady beat on the treadle. </p>

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Dropbox</span></p><p class="caption">This illustration of a happy cupcake is one of Dropbox's five core values. No words. Just the image.</p></div><p></p></div></div>At 33, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston is one of the youngest billionaires in the world, <a href="http://www.forbes.com/profile/drew-houston/">according to Forbes</a>.</p><p>Most of his wealth comes from his ownership in Dropbox, the online file-storage and collaboration company that shot up to a $10 billion valuation in 2014, just seven years after its founding.</p><p>There are a lot of different reasons for Dropbox's success, but Houston pointed to one quirky reason during an <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-drew-houston-grew-dropbox-into-a-10-billion-business-2016-12">exclusive interview with Business Insider</a>: an illustration of a happy cupcake.</p><p>Houston said the picture of a smiling cupcake is meant to represent his commitment to keeping a fun office culture, which he believes has been instrumental to the company's rapid growth, and helps him instill the same kind of easy-going mindset to the rest of the company.</p><p>It's why he even made the image of a smiling cupcake (with no additional words) one of Dropbox's five core values.</p><p><span>"We believe that just because you're in a corporate environment doesn't mean you should be sentenced to having a corporate experience. We think work should be fun and human and you should have great relationships and we try to imbue our tools with that sense," Houston said.</span></p><p><span>In fact, according to Kurt Varner, a recently hired designer, Dropbox actually delivers a cupcake kit to all new potential hires following an interview.</span></p><p><span><span>"The icing on the cake was this little pink box that greeted me on my apartment doorstep that night...<span>I eagerly opened it to find a cupcake kit with a letter-pressed note from Dropbox expressing their excitement about the potential to have me join," <a href="https://medium.com/@kurtvarner/why-im-joining-dropbox-b30f44ce3c61#.yz8ktlor9">Varner wrote in a recent blog post</a>.</span></span></span></p><p><span>And for those wondering, here's the full list of the five core values at Dropbox:</span></p><ol><li>Be worthy of trust</li><li>Sweat the details</li><li>Aim higher</li><li>We not I</li><li>"Cupcake image" </li></ol>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/clear-iphone-space-storage-video-2016-12">The best way to clear out a ton of space on your iPhone superfast</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="5qcmxndToofREk2JFghn1wjMFTZOXP_E" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

Dropbox's 33-year old billionaire CEO shares why a 'happy cupcake' makes his company better

<p>Esteemed <keyword id="142327" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="developer">developer</keyword> and designer Loren Brichter is bringing his expertise to the <keyword id="6354576" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Facebook">Facebook</keyword> Home team, <a href="http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2013/04/16/tweetie-and-pull-to-refresh-creator-loren-brichter-working-with-facebook-home-team/">Matthew Panzarino of TheNextWeb reports</a>.</p>
<p>"Really excited to have @lorenb helping my team out at Facebook," Facebook designer Mike Matas <a href="https://twitter.com/mike_matas/status/324186555390513154">tweeted earlier today</a>. </p>
<p>It's not clear whether Facebook has actually hired Brichter, but it looks like he will at least be working with the social network in some form or another. </p>
<p>Brichter <span>developed Tweetie, a Twitter client that later became the social network's official iOS app following an acquisition of his company. He's also the developer behind the word game Letterpress, which has been downloaded millions of times.</span></p>
<p>Brichter, just 28 years old, invented the iOS trick where you pull down from the top of the screen to refresh the page of an app. He's also responsible for the panels that slide out from the side of an app, as well as the "cell swipe." Those features are now staples in iOS apps.</p>

Facebook Just Tapped One Of The World's Best Designers To Help With Facebook Home

<p>It's called Dots, a simple puzzle game loosely modeled on the popular game Bejeweled, which has been around since the days of regular feature phones with color screens.</p>
<p>But Dots builds on that concept with a super clean interface, reminiscent of another popular <keyword id="6354606" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="iPhone">iPhone</keyword> game <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-win-at-letterpress-2012-11">called Letterpress</a>.</p>
<p>Dots is insanely addicting. You'll be hooked after one round. Take our word for it.</p>
<h2>Here's how it works:</h2>
<p><strong>You connect dots of the same color with a swipe. You only have a minute to clear as many dots as you can. (No diagonals!) They disappear and bring in new ones.</strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If you can complete a square, all the dots on the board of that color will clear out, giving you a bunch of points.</span></strong></p>
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<p><strong>The more you play, the more dots you earn. When you have enough dots, you can buy bonus items like extra time.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>You can link the game to Twitter and Facebook and compare scores with your pals.</strong></p>
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<p>Download Dots for free on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dots-a-game-about-connecting/id632285588">iPhone and iPad here</a>.</p>

Here's The New iPhone Game Everyone's Going Nuts Over Right Now

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://gourmetadvisory.com/gallery/Romantic-wedding-the-plaza-hotel">Gourmet Advisory</a></span></p><p class="caption">An example of an ornate, romantic wedding inside the Plaza Hotel in NYC.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Getting married in New York City can be a nightmare.</p>
<p>The sheer number of vendors, boutiques, florists, musicians, and locations to choose from means that New Yorkers who are tying the knot can be overwhelmed.</p>
<p>"First of all, New York weddings are more expensive than any other part of the United States," Harriette Rose Katz, <a href="http://gourmetadvisory.com/" target="_blank">founder and president of Gourmet Advisory</a>, an upscale event planning and party coordination consultancy, told Business Insider. "Secondly, there's a lot of great competition here."</p>
<p>That intense competition led Katz to dip into her knowledge of the event industry to start <a href="http://hrkchosenfew.com/" target="_blank">The Chosen Few</a>. Just like the Michelin Guide for restaurants or Consumer Reports for gadgets, Katz hopes that The Chosen Few will help brides and grooms choose the absolute best NYC has to offer in catering, décor, entertainment, invitations, lighting, music, photography, and more.</p>
<p>"I've been in the business for 35 years," Katz told us. "And it's such an unregulated business. Anybody can be a party planner, anybody can be a florist, or a caterer, or whatever. I thought it was time for someone to say these people are not only the best at what they do, but then also why they're the best."</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://hrkchosenfew.com/behind-the-branding/">The Chosen Few</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div>Katz plans to keep her picks as up-to-date as possible and make sure that her list showcases companies that display excellence, artistry, and professionalism across every category.</p>
<p>"I give my stamp of approval to every single [company] that's in here," Katz said. "They cannot be in here if I have not worked with them over and over and over through the years, and if they're not fundamentally great."</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hrkchosenfew.com/" target="_blank">You can find out more information at The Chosen Few website</a>. The full 2014 group of industry leaders is below.</p>
<h3><strong>CATERING</strong></h3>
<p><a href="http://www.starrevents.com/%20" target="_blank">Stephen Starr Events</a> - Brings the dining experience of STARR restaurants to the world of catering and special events.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.restaurantassociates.com/%20" target="_blank">Restaurant Associates</a> - Operates in over 100 locations and provides food services to museums, performing arts centers, aquariums, corporate dining, educational facilities and off-premise events in NYC, Boston, Hartford, Atlanta, DC, Philadelphia and Toronto.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.creativeedgeparties.com/%20" target="_blank">Creative Edge Parties</a> - Caters corporate events, cocktail parties, formal weddings, and intimate gatherings.</p>
<h3><strong>DESIGN</strong></h3>
<p><a href="http://site.dianagouldltd.com/%20" target="_blank">Diana Gould Ltd.</a> - A full-service design house, their artists, designers, and craftsmen work together to create a beautifully-coordinated event.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.frankalexandernyc.com/index_frank_alexander.html%20" target="_blank">Frank Alexander</a> - Known for being able to transform any environment into an exquisite and unexpected setting. He is able to quickly envision a space's potential and turn them into unique design opportunities.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dejuanstroud.com/parties%20" target="_blank">DeJuan Stroud Inc.</a> - Event design and décor studio specializing in opulent floral décor and event design.</p>
<h3><strong>FLORAL</strong></h3>
<p><a href="http://markroseevents.com/%20" target="_blank">Mark Rose Events</a> - Designs flowers and arrangements for wedding receptions, corporate galas, charity balls, as well as for residences.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.edlibby.com/%20" target="_blank">Ed Libby &amp; Co.</a> - Designs flowers and arrangements for weddings, receptions, and parties.</p>
<h3><strong>GENERAL</strong></h3>
<p><a href="http://www.totalentertainment.com/%20" target="_blank">Total Entertainment</a> - A team of event producers who create social and corporate events.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.untouchableevents.com/%20" target="_blank">Untouchable Events</a> - A full-service entertainment company, producing corporate events, benefit and corporate galas, Bat Mitzvahs, weddings, fashion shows, and birthday parties.</p>
<h3><strong>INVITATIONS</strong></h3>
<p><a href="http://www.alpinecreativegroup.com/%20" target="_blank">Alpine Creative Group</a> - Creates custom stationary and invitations with specialty print techniques including, engraving and letterpress. They use both graphic designers and illustrators to create their designs and can produce on a variety of materials such as hand made paper, thick mounted custom paper, beveled edges, plastic, leather or glass.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.fancythatnyc.com/index2.php#!/HOME%20" target="_blank">Fancy That</a> - A custom invitation company in Manhattan that specializes in unique invitations that represent their client's personality, taste and style. They offer a large selection in many styles, from letterpress to engraved, 3D to musical, in a variety of fonts, colors, fabrics, and designs.</p>
<h3><strong>LIGHTING</strong></h3>
<p><a href="http://www.frostproductions.biz/%20" target="_blank">Frost Productions</a> - A lighting company that provides everything from conventional stage lighting to video décor to media services to venue spotlight. Also offers chandeliers, custom shades, and custom lighting fixtures.</p>
<h3><strong>MUSIC</strong></h3>
<p><a href="http://www.elementmusicnyc.com/" target="_blank">Marianne Bennett Presents: Element Music</a> - A boutique production company that provides talent and ensembles including dancers, choreographers, singers and musicians</p>
<p><a href="http://starlightorchestras.com/%20" target="_blank">Starlight Orchestras</a> - A live music production company that performs complete and unique productions, including wardrobe, musical arrangements, computer technology, audio equipment, and more.</p>
<h3><strong>PHOTOGRAPHY</strong></h3>
<p><a href="http://www.jurick.net/%20" target="_blank">Michael Jurick</a> - Photographs events, portraits and is the senior house photographer for the Bowery presents. He also uses venues and iconic locations in NY for his photographs.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gruberphotographers.com/%20" target="_blank">Gruber Photographers</a> - NYC photography studio that photographs events using a photojournalistic, documentary-style. They have a team of photographers who have captured high profile weddings, events and bar mitzvahs.</p>
<h3><strong>TENTS</strong></h3>
<p><a href="http://www.stamfordtent.com/%20" target="_blank">Stamford Tents</a> - Provides tents, temporary structures, flooring, lighting and climate control with a focus on high quality products and customer service.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.starrtent.com/about-us/%20" target="_blank">Starr Tent</a> - Provides tent pavilions, tension tents, canopies, and clear span structures for events in NY, Westchester, Connecticut, Long Island and NJ. The tents can be enhanced with marquee walkways, floor coverings, dance floors, band platforms, window sidewalls and raised plywood flooring.</p>
<h3>VENUE</h3>
<p><a href="http://crystalplaza.com/%20" target="_blank">Crystal Plaza</a> - A mansion appointed for all types of events - weddings, mitzvahs, or corporate business affairs. It has a dining room, ballroom, and abundant garden decorated with sparkling crystal chandeliers, Juliet balcony, and priceless antiques.</p>

A Top Wedding Planner Reveals Her Favorite Vendors In New York City

<p>You may not know him by name, but Loren Brichter is arguably the most influential app designer in the world.</p>
<p>The Wall Street Journal's Jessica Lessin <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887324392804578358730990873670-lMyQjAxMTAzMDEwNzExNDcyWj.html">recently wrote a great profile on Brichter</a>.</p>
<p>Brichter is the guy who developed Tweetie, a <keyword id="6354616" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Twitter">Twitter</keyword> client that later became the social network's official iOS app following <a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2010/04/twitter-for-iphone.html">an acquisition of his company Atebits</a>. He's also the guy behind the word game Letterpress, which has been downloaded millions of times, Brichter tells the WSJ. </p>
<p>Brichter, just 28 years old, invented the iOS trick where you pull down from the top of the screen to refresh the page of an app. He's also responsible for the panels that slide out from the side of an app, as well as the "cell swipe."</p>
<p>Those features are now staples in iOS <keyword id="6354741" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Apps">apps</keyword>, Lessin writes. </p>
<p>Pinterest, for example, uses the pull-down feature in its app, and so does Apple in its mail app. You can find variations of Brichter's sliding-panel feature in Facebook's iOS app, as well in Evernote.</p>
<p>"It's hard to understate the impact his ideas have had on the space," Phill Ryu, a <keyword id="142327" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="developer">developer</keyword> for task management app Clear, tells Lessin. </p>
<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887324392804578358730990873670-lMyQjAxMTAzMDEwNzExNDcyWj.html">Head on over to The Wall Street Journal</a> to learn more about how Brichter has become the world's most influential app designer. </p>

A 28-Year-Old You've Never Heard Of Is The World's Most Influential App Designer

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXV5wsFMApg">YouTube/Birchbox</a></p><p class="caption">Katia Beauchamp is a <keyword id="1486920" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Birchbox">Birchbox</keyword> co-founder.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Birchbox was a trendsetter for the e-commerce subscription space - give them money, you get a box of goodies in the mail. It works because it's simple and novel.</p>
<p>It unsurprisingly kicked off a wave of similar companies catering to specific niches - pet owners, arts and crafts types, and plenty others.</p>
<p>There are <a href="http://habitualhomebody.com/monthly-subscription-boxes-like-birchbox/">lots and lots </a>of these startups, but here's a little roundup of the more interesting box-of-stuff-in-the-mail companies out there:</p>
<p><strong>1. <a href="http://www.birchbox.com/">Birchbox</a></strong>- The mainstay. Tell it what you like and it will play DJ to your tastes, from makeup to gadgets to hair/skin care products and more.</p>
<p><strong>2. </strong><a href="https://www.barkbox.com/"><strong>BarkBox</strong></a> - Birchbox for dog owners! Treats, toys, all things canine.</p>
<p><strong>3. <a href="http://www.craftistaskits.com/">Craftistas</a> - </strong>Get all the instructions and materials you need to hand-make something interesting every month. It's $24 per month.</p>
<p><strong>4. <a href="http://globein.com/the-artisan-gift-box">GlobeIn's Artisan Gift Box</a></strong> - We've previously reported on GlobeIn, a company that helps artisans from developing countries all around the world by offering a storefront for them to sell their goods. Each box will contain between one and three handmade craft items as well as the story behind the person who made it. It's $30 per month.</p>
<p><strong>5. <a href="https://musthave.popsugar.com/">Popsugar Must Have </a></strong>- For $40 per month, you'll receive "<span>Hand-selected items in beauty, fashion, home, fitness, and food</span>." That sounds a little vague, so to help you understand what you're signing up for, you can view past boxes here.</p>
<p><strong>6. <a href="http://www.sockpanda.com/">Sock Panda</a> -</strong> Birchbox for socks! It's that simple, and it's $11 per month.</p>
<p><strong>7. <a href="http://www.handpickedwords.com/">Hand-Picked Words </a></strong>- If you'd rather get digital goods, these guys will send you "poems, short stories, letterpress art, and e-books to your inbox" for $15 a month. Perfect gift for a book hound.</p>

How To Surprise Yourself With Gifts In The Mail

<p>If you've ever used the iPhone's default note-taking app before, you know it suffers from one major issue: organization.</p>
<p>Letterspace wants to solve that problem, and it's betting the solution is organizing notes with hashtags.</p>
<p>Letterspace is hardly the first note-taking app to use hashtags. Apps like Fetchnotes, Hashnote, and Simplenote have all used them as an organizational system before, but Letterspace manages to stand out from the pack with a beautiful design, with a spare interface and a unique swipe bar that makes scrolling through notes easier.</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></p>
<p>The swipe bar rests just above the keyboard, and it's actually pretty handy for moving around a paragraph without moving your hands away from the keyboard. I used my thumb on the swipe bar most of the time, and I discovered you can navigate in all directions (like a normal mouse cursor) as long as you start with your finger on the bar. If you need to highlight a selection, you can just double tap the swipe bar.</p>
<p>To make finding the hashtag key a little easier, Letterspace included a hashtag key directly beneath the swipe bar, along with a hyphen and asterisk key. Since the point of using Letterspace is to make your notes more organized and easier to search, it's a welcome addition that doesn't get in the way.</p>
<p>Letterpress also uses Markdown syntax, <span>which is basically a web language for writing on the web that preserves the structure of your document. This means you can create to-do lists by typing in a hyphen followed by a set of brackets, which then lets you check off tasks with an "x."</span></p>
<p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><br /></span></p>
<p>Letterspace works across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and the app's distraction-free, minimalist design language extends across all platforms.</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></p>
<p>You can easily change the font to something that's more your style, and while the app's default background is a stark white color that can be a bit bright on the eyes, other color schemes are available. <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">You can test them out for a short period of time, and you can buy them within the app for $1.99 to $4.99. My favorite was the Sepia Green color scheme, which kept text legible but turned the background to a softer, parchment-like sepia tone.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><br /></span></p>
<p>Even with the inclusion of the swipe bar, Letterspace keeps things extremely simple, and it's quickly becoming my favorite alternative to the awful iPhone Notes app. The swipe bar makes it easier to stay in writing mode without having to poke and prod the screen to highlight specific words, and the rest of the app keeps the focus on making your workspace how you want it. The hashtags are just there so exploring your notes isn't so much of a pain.</p>
<p>It's simple system that's elegant and just plain works.</p>
<p>If you want to give it a try, you can download it for free for iPhone and iPad <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/id879516377">here</a>, and Mac <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/letterspace-taking-notes-made/id950145466?mt=12&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4">right here.</a></p>

Meet Letterspace, our new favorite note-taking app for iPhone

<p><table class="image-container float_right" width="200"><tr><td><div class="image"></div><p class="caption">Loren Brichter</p></td></tr></table>Loren Brichter is the developer behind Tweetie, a Twitter client that was eventually acquired by the company itself. Most recently, he created a hit iOS game called Letterpress, and it's found some notable success in the App Store.</p>
<p>In short, he's a guy who knows his stuff when it comes to apps and their platforms, so we picked his brain on what it would take for Android-based gaming console <keyword id="1610232" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Ouya">Ouya</keyword> to find mainstream success.</p>
<p>"I think they'll find fans in the niche tech/indie gaming market; perhaps enough to sustain a business — but mainstream is a whole different thing," he told us. "I don't see how it stands up against the next Xbox or an App Store-enabled Apple TV. And how do you deal with piracy when the hardware manufacturer encourages rooting?"</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/will-ouya-succeed-2013-1">We've previously identified</a> attracting great content from developers as being one of the important things Ouya has to do to succeed. Yet from the outset with its Kickstarter fundraising process, Ouya touted its console as being easy to root, which lets it operate outside the normal boundaries of the Android operating system, potentially making it way too easy to run pirated software.</p>
<p>And some developers will be far less motivated to put effort into a product just to see it get ripped off.</p>
<p>We've reached out to Ouya for comment and will update this story when we hear back.</p>
<p><strong>DON'T MISS: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/will-ouya-succeed-2013-1">This is what it will take for Ouya to succeed &gt;</a></strong></p>

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<p><div class="image-container float_right click-to-enlarge" style="width:372px"><div class="image"><a title_source="YouTube Screenshot" title_caption="Daniel Reetz is the inventor of the DIY Book Scanner" class="zoomin" href="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5100412e69bedd8709000006-960/danreetz.jpg"><span class="click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span></a></div><p class="source"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4-qMc2QSOw">YouTube Screenshot</a></p><p class="caption">Daniel Reetz is the inventor of the DIY Book Scanner</p></div>Daniel Reetz is an artist and engineer who ran into a problem one day – his office building collapsed, breaking its steam pipes and ruining every book in the building.</p>
<p>But while the physical <keyword id="5050" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="books">books</keyword> were destroyed, Reetz's loss wasn't 100%. He had digitally scanned most of them, and as long as he had redundant backups in ones and zeroes, he'd never actually "lose" his books.</p>
<p><a href="http://diybookscanner.org/">Reetz is the brain behind DIYBookScanner</a>, an open-source piece of hardware that's been redesigned and reinvented with help from a large internet community. The scanner digitally captures books to preserve them and put them on whatever device you like. It can be built out of materials that you likely already have around the house, or you can order <a href="http://diybookscanner.myshopify.com/">a kit from his site for $475</a>. The next most comparable device you can buy would be <a href="http://kmbs.konicaminolta.us/wps/portal/web/home/products/office-systems/scanners/ps7000">significantly more expensive</a>.</p>
<p>We love it when an expensive or inaccessible technology is made instantly easy or affordable. But because the DIYBookScanner deals directly with aspects of intellectual property, preservation of knowledge, and the circumvention of the "broken medium" of physical books, it begs a number of questions.</p>
<p>Reetz was kind enough to answer some of them for us.</p>
<p><strong>BUSINESS INSIDER: </strong>Any cool stories about how people are using the scanner?</p>
<p><strong>DANIEL REETZ: </strong>The short list: it's been used to digitize fire and tsunami-damaged holy books in Indonesia; to digitize engineering texts for a student with eye troubles; to digitize French Creole medical records in Haiti; to digitize the ships logs of Minnesota, a landlocked state; to digitize fileslips, the linguistic "recipe cards" that become dictionaries; as the basis of a book on getting books into the OLPC computer; used to digitize over 36,000 pages of yearbooks; used to digitize collections of QSL cards. It even showed up as a major plot element in Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore!</p>
<p>Fundamentally, this project has really become about all the niche book scanning stuff that everyone else ignored.</p>
<p><strong>BI: </strong>Is it fair to say that ultimately the scanner is about preserving knowledge?<br /><br /><strong>DR: </strong>Yes, and about people helping themselves. The most important thing to note here is, despite the ENORMOUS focus on digital books, their marketing, scanning, distribution, reading, and sale, there has been nearly ZERO focus on all the books people already own. Whole classes of books and book-related desires have been wholly ignored. That's where I – and my designs and league of interesting people – come in. We help people get their books into a format they can use, using mostly stuff they already have. They might not always be archival-quality scans, but they are a whole lot better than being ignored.</p>
<p><strong>BI: </strong>What's most frustrating about current intellectual property law?</p>
<p><strong>DR: </strong>The fundamental problem with intellectual property law is that it was formed in a totally different technological era. It wasn't designed for our current age of computation and copying. When these legal concepts came into being, it was hard to make a copy. You needed, for example, a printing press. Today we copy thousands of times a second with our electronic devices. The law can't handle the present. And that's where the trouble begins.</p>
<p>Some people are trying to change the law, but others are exploiting it to make everyone miserable and to make everyone tithe. I'm not the first person to say this, and I won't be the last. It's a bad situation.</p>
<p><strong>BI: </strong>You've previously called physical books a "broken medium." Care to elaborate?</p>
<p><strong>DR: </strong>It's pretty straightforward - it's tough to read a physical book on my phone, really hard to update one with new information, really hard to cross-reference them with other texts, it's impossible for blind people to access most of them, many of them continuously self destruct because of the paper they are printed on, some are in constant danger because of the ideas contained in their pages, I can't share them without depriving myself of access, and backing them up is a lot of work.</p>
<p>Fundamentally, I'd like to see a new form of reading that takes the best from physical books and digital books. For example, I'd like a textbook that gets incremental updates instead of having to be re-purchased with each new edition. This already existed many years ago in the form of a binder-like encyclopedia that was updated as the world's knowledge increased. Or I'd like an ebook that doesn't have to be turned off for takeoff and landing, and that I can easily mark up with a pen. All the technology to do this already exists. It's just scattered.</p>
<p><strong>BI: </strong>What's the value in a digital file over a physical book?</p>
<p><strong>DR: </strong>Accessibility, primarily, in the broadest sense. I can get it, use it, and share it anywhere. Annotation – the markup can be (but isn't yet) extraordinarily powerful. Also search – being able to search my entire bookshelf for just the passages or information I want would be wonderful. Double-edged sword, though – scanning through books looking for specific things often leads to new insights and unexpected connections.</p>
<p><strong>BI: </strong>What's the value in a digital file over cloud access through Amazon?</p>
<p><strong>DR: </strong>If you own the file, you control it. That's the fundamental thing. You can copy it, back it up,  delete it, or even scramble up the bits into interesting digital art, whatever!</p>
<p>If it's on someone else's server, and you can only get at it through an app, you don't own it or access to it. It's the worst of the rental market, because someday your landlord is gonna die. Or get tired of renting to you. Or the device you're reading on is going to become obsolete and unsupported. This already happened on some of the early ebook reader platforms.</p>
<p><strong>BI: </strong>What's the future of books, physical and otherwise?</p>
<p><strong>DR: </strong>If you ask me, physical books are going to follow a path similar to vinyl. They always have and always will contain information we care about and want access to. And their medium has special, wonderful properties that make them lovable and not easily discarded, unlike, say, 8-track. So they'll be around for a long while, but increasingly their maintenance will become more and more costly.</p>
<p>In the meantime, the market will move to ever cheaper and more ephemeral forms of distribution, like, well, it already has. On a personal scale, you'll buy less and less bits and more and more bytes. You'll own less, but have more. At some point, real books, like letterpress, vinyl, and other mediums with weighty history and wonderful physical manifestations, well, they'll be niche. There will be artisanal binders in Brooklyn binding up books the old way with rabbit glue, and there will be a variety of companies that survive on a technicality  like some documents being legally required to be printed in book form, or some people (such as the visually impaired) needing them in a particular physical form.</p>
<p>But as time goes on, NEW real books will increasingly become a novelty, an add-on to a digital purchase process. Their position as a source of vetted, edited, clarified and concentrated quality information and exposition is unlikely to change, given the extreme brevity of online communication, but the flow of information and discussion will not be so gravitationally whorled around them.</p>
<p>Libraries will evolve in interesting ways. Some will become museums and archives. Some will become information hubs – even more than they are now. Some will make disastrous decisions like putting the whole place on iPads and iTunes only to get hosed with each new version. At least there's a progressive idea in that.</p>
<p>But this is not a lamentation. I look forward to greater access and more sensible distribution, as well as greater volumes of books for people who can only consume them in particular ways. I also look forward to the end of obscurity. THAT is what I am really hoping to help bring out of all this. No longer will those rare, one-off books rot until someone unknowingly chucks them. They'll be out there, somewhere, ready for discovery. Ready for reading.</p>

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