Next, The Copier Will Reproduce Popsicles

4/3PI*R^3 writes "At my fellow UM System University, the University of Missouri Rolla Dr. Ming Leu, Wei Zhang, and their fellow mechanical engineers invented a device that constructs a 3-D model out of ice in a matter of hours, using a technique they call rapid-freeze prototyping. Article in Discover. At last we can finally make strawberry-banana swirl popsicles!!!!"

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So far I've heard 2 applications:

[TheDullBlade]

1) popsicles
2) MRI scan models (presumably colored with different flavors of popsicle base)

The result? Finally, an anatomically correct model of a diseased bowel that you can eat!

I suspect physicians would abuse their scanner privileges if they got to eat it themselves, so the hospitals will have to feed it to someone else. So that's one more category of surgical waste to add to cafeteria menus.

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