Are you familiar with fortune cookies? It's just a plain crispy cookie made out of usual ingredients we commonly used for baking. What's special about it is that once you take a bite or just pop it open, a piece of paper wrapped inside it will tell you some fortune. But who knows if it's specially meant for you, whether or not, there's no big deal.
It originated in California around 1918, so Americans be proud. However, the nationality of the one who fortunately invented it was Chinese, but that doesn't make things less true that it's a U.S. product. While that first history happened in Los Angeles, there's this another history that relates to fortune cookies. One story spread out that in the year 1914, a Japanese gardener served cookies which he baked personally with thank you notes inside. Well here's the story behind his thank-you cookies. The current mayor at his time hates Japanese, and since he's one, he got fired from his job, but then eventually reinstated after the mayor was replaced. As a sign of gratitude, he then baked cookies with wrapped notes inside to thank everyone who visits the Tea Garden where he worked at.
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Well enough of the history from the past and let's go back to the present. FortuneCookie printer, is a thermal printer that can print random fortunes which represent an expected event that will more likely happened for real in the future. To be honest it sounds complicated to me. The concept is to use feeds/tweets from Twitter that comes from someone you know personally or just a random guy. Based on those existing tweets, the system will use the alternate vision which comes from Twitter's view of someone else's future. The result will then be transformed into a language that may sound like a real prediction. Whatever you get or read, chances that it may or may not happen are not clear at the moment.
Below's the video of how this fortune-telling printer works.
I'm actually intrigued about it and would certainly want to learn more regarding this printer. Though one thing is for sure, you can make use of it as a spoof and make fun with your friends. Just kinda wondering if instead of using a thermal printer, can we use a typical inkjet or laserjet? Pretty sure that thing is not out in the market, nor will be, it's not a kind of device you can easily sell out. If it's possible that we can print those candid fortunes using an inkjet, that would be awesome. I just don't consider laser printers since they use laserjet toner cartridges, whereas thermal and inkjets use ink. But that's not quite a big deal.
Just by simply watching the video wouldn't give much information that we need, what do you say? I want to shed some more light and learn its whole process, if it requires me to learn the Quantum Physics, then I would dare myself. To those who have read or came upon any post related to this fortune-telling printer, you may leave it as a comment below with the link to your source.
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