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February 20, 2012 at 2:18 pm #1052439
More futuristic madness
Next Frontier in Piracy: Downloading Physical Objects to Your 3D Printer | Techland | TIME.com
February 20, 2012 at 3:23 pm #1249496The idea for this tech has been about fora good few years … there was stuff about ten years ago about it if you look back! It’s just not been very widely reported for some reason (mby honing the tech or something). There’s been talk about possibilities at some point of being able to build organic things cell by cell via the same tech at some point in the future (seen’s as we are discusing synthetic meat in the other thread).
It does look bloody cool though, it’s basicaly a massive dot matrixs printer that builds up things verticaly as well as horizontaly and obviously dosn’t use ink.
(EDIT, I just read we can already print food lol)
February 20, 2012 at 3:42 pm #1249500we can print food? where’d you read that??
February 20, 2012 at 3:43 pm #1249497@Clusterfrog 468904 wrote:
we can print food? where’d you read that??
on the article you posted (i heard about the idea ages ago, didn’t realize we could already do it).
Quote:The benefit to society is huge. No more shipping huge amounts of products around the world. No more shipping the broken products back. No more child labour. We’ll be able to print food for hungry people. We’ll be able to share not only a recipe, but the full meal.Quote:the ability to print relatively simple objects (even food) is already here and will continue to get more refined over time.Star Trek or what? 😛
February 20, 2012 at 3:50 pm #1249501ah yeah missed that bit! bring it on, soon we’ll be able to hack these things to print drugs!
February 20, 2012 at 4:10 pm #1249498@Clusterfrog 468910 wrote:
ah yeah missed that bit! bring it on, soon we’ll be able to hack these things to print drugs!
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February 20, 2012 at 5:21 pm #1249495They’ll probably sell it for £40 then stiff us on the cartridges as usual…
February 20, 2012 at 5:42 pm #1249499rofl!
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