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tallackn writes "The New Scientist website has an article that tells of a 3D gadget printer which will allow fully assembled electric and electronic gadgets to be printed in one go. 'The trick is to print layer upon layer of conducting and semiconducting polymers in such a way that the circuitry the device requires is built up as part of the bodywork.' When the technique is perfected, devices such as light bulbs, radios, remote controls, mobile phones and toys will be spat out as individual fully functional systems without expensive and labour-intensive production on an assembly line."
Now I can prnt my own iPod.
Now I can download that "Real" virtual girlfriend.
err... ummm...
Now all we need is a Feed connection to it, and we're in business!
Damn, I gotta join that Drummer cult too now.
Woohoo! Great sex for me!!
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
"Printer; Tea. Earl-Gray. Hot"
Now I can finally print myself a woman...
Awww crap, I'm all out of nipple ink!
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
so does this mean I can print out a new processor on my inkjet?
Yes!
Unfortunately it only prints Transmetas.
Or better still.... print a more sophisticated printer on my existing printer. Repeat.
"As opposed to what? "A liquid that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea?"
Imagine... at one time you could have tea and no tea.
computers will be able to have babies.
how long before these 'printers' decide to enslave their human masters? soon we'll be herded into tiny rooms and be forced to be productive
oh wait..
If you mod me down the terrorists will have won
"Or better still.... print a more sophisticated printer on my existing printer. Repeat."
Until it's Barbie Doll House sized?
I dont know the specs or how detailed it was, but they had something that did 3d printing at Boeing. I saw it there when I went I took a tour for a class here in Wichita, KS. It was pretty cool. I watched for 2 minutes as it built a plane model someone was working on. The guide was a little mad at me and said I should be seeing whats comming off that printer but since it was building the lower half, he and the engineer agreed I was harmless.
Ill never forget that weird design, looked just like a dinner plate. I kid, I kid.
The ultimate network admin tool needs HELP!
To avoid a vacuum, you just print air on the inside. Duh!
Just wait, if mp3s make "exact digital copies" of music there's already someone in the company running in circles about an "exact copy" of a CD, album cover and all.
On the plus side I'd love to download a new product and print it out, wonder how much piracy there'd be: "pirated PS8, download and print yours today!"
-Matt
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A food printer.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
How long before collections of open-source hardware starts circulating? Anyone want to design a reference railgun? :)
This could be great for the ladies (all three of you who read /. that is). Plastics printed in any shape... with the capability of flexing! Flextronics has a market already! Just make it moisture-proof.
coulda used this a few years back. File...open...Penis.doc...file...print...tada
Nah, how about two printers chatting:
P1: Damn humans, take forever and sometimes your job never appears
P2: "PC Load Letter" -- what the hell does that mean?
I can see it now... Download a file for that new open source video card and get fraggin!
Or better still.... print a more sophisticated printer on my existing printer. Repeat.
Of course, by the tenth generation or so they've gotten so complicated you can't figure out why it keeps spitting dust out at you. And by the twentieth generation, the printers print more sophisticated printers on you.
Only if you're in Soviet Russia.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
The pen can now print a gatlin gun!
Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
Damn that region encoding. :-P
Maybe when it powers up for the first time it can print out a cable and driver disks.
And some spare cartridges...