I wish phones and tablets still had IR blasters.

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@doubleDensity back in middle school my handwriting was so terrible that they gave me a weird palm pilot device with a full physical keyboard (pictured), and it could print on the schools printers via its ir port and i was constantly mind blown that it works.

felt a little bit like magic, especially considering how terrible printers were and still are to set up over usb

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