History of science and technology in Japan at the Computer Technique Group, Japan, in 1967. The first electronic printer was the EP-101, invented by Japanese company Epson and released in 1968. The world's first inkjet printer was Casio's Typuter, released in 1971. Thermal transfer printing was invented by SATO corporation, a Japanese company. They produced the world's first thermal transfer label printer, SATO M-2311, in 1981. The concept of a single-chip microprocessor CPU (central processing unit) was conceived in a 1968 meeting in Japan between Sharp engineer Tadashi Sasaki and an unnamed female software engineering researcher from Nara Women's College. He discussed the concept at a brainstorming
Compact Space (band) Compact Space (band) Compact Space is a band featuring Christian Eigner, Daryl Bamonte and vocalist Florian Kraemmer. They started writing together in 2008 and released their first album in 2011. The first single 'Push Push' was released on iTunes and Amazon in October 2009 through their own label Elsbeere Recordings, to great acclaim. On the internet, they also placed two other songs "Reverse Happiness" and "My Other Life" for people to stream on their MySpace page. The album and single were produced by Christian Eigner and mixed by Paul PDub Walton. The artwork for the single is by Roger O'Donnell.