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Print Yourself a Femur

Posted by michael on from the six-fingers dept.

Scrooge919 writes "Newscientist is running an article about a new 'bone printer' that can be used to replace segments of broken bones. A large segment could be fabricated in about an hour and would be able to support the person's weight. Over the course of about 18 months, the section is absorbed by the body and replaced with real bone."

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  1. Oh Oh... by jo42 · · Score: 5, Funny
    I can see it now:

    Subject: [ADV] Print yourself a bigger Penis!!!!

    1. Re:Oh Oh... by m_chan · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or worse, your inbox will be flooded with ads for cheap boner cartridges.

    2. Re:Oh Oh... by pmz · · Score: 2, Funny

      Subject: [ADV] Print yourself a bigger Penis!!!!

      Well, this could mean a whole new class of vending machines at certain "brown bag" stores.

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  2. Uh Oh... by Dr.+Bent · · Score: 2, Funny

    Boy, if you think those InkJet printer cartridges are expensive now.....

  3. i wanna print meh some horns! by baloogan · · Score: 4, Funny

    lol that would be cool!

    we could really BE darth maul for halloween

  4. disappointment by austad · · Score: 3, Funny

    At first, I was like "Sweet! I've always wanted a furry little animal with a long tail and monkey-like qualities!"

    But then I realized I was thinking about a Lemur. When will someone release a Lemur machine?

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    1. Re:disappointment by Jerf · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, I think these guys can probably help.

      I recommend getting two; lemur production doesn't work so well with only one lemur machine. Make sure they are compatible; there are two types and you need one of each.

      By the way, it's quite likely that local laws will prevent you from owning a lemur-producing machine. Many types of lemur-producing machines are very rare and once they break, they can't be fixed, so if they all break that's it for lemur-machines. As a result many governments are quite protective of them.

      Also, operation of the lemur machines in such a manner that they will actually produce lemurs and not just consume resources may be very, very tricky; I'm not certain but I do know a lot of other, similar machines often take many skilled experts to cause to produce.

      Anyhow, they're not as user-friendly as you'd like and you can't just pick them up at Best Buy, but you can probably get some lemur machines if you really put your mind to it. Best part of all is there are billions of years behind their development, so they are pretty sophisticated.

  5. PC Load Ossein?! by Kaeru+the+Frog · · Score: 1, Funny

    What the fuck does that mean?!

    And yes, I did use a thesaurus.

  6. Dogs by Luigi30 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now when you have a dog, don't dig up a corpse for that bone, just print one out!

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