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Inkjet Printer Prints out Human Skin
Anonymous Award writes "Scientists at the University of Manchester in the UK have developed a type of inkjet printer that can print human cells. The scientists claim that it will be possible to print 'made-to-measure' tissue and bones to be grown simply by inputting their
dimensions into a computer. But that's not all, the printer's creator claims that the potential of his team's discovery is enormous: 'You could print the scaffolding to create an organ in a day,' well, one day maybe. Where could this technology lead in a 100 years I wonder? Could it lead to a fax machine for complete living organisms?"
If you can't afford this skin surgery, you can always get sponsorship from companies like Intel and let the printer print a non-removable "Intel Outside" on your new skin.
This guy is going to get so excited.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
Think of all the new possibilities for the porn industry!
Yea, but how much will the ink cartridges cost? Will I be getting spam for refill kits?
Don't Tread on Me
So you're saying that I can print a new liver? Sweet! *breaks out a 6-pack*
Disconnect and self-destruct, one bullet at a time.
Now all we need to do is figure out how to bombard a body with slightly greasy solar atoms.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
Could it lead to a fax machine for complete living organisms?
No.
These cartridges will be 30% less expensive than brand name inkjet cartridges.
Wow, printers can print out anything! I bet pretty soon they'll have some that print out money.
Er... wait a sec...
Are ya'll thinking what am thinking?
Eh?
"Where could this technology lead in a 100 years I wonder?"
I don't know... lets see now... How about printer vendors selling toner cartridges for arms and legs for an arm and a leg?
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Visions of the body reconstruction machine from The Fifth Element...
If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law;
"Team leader Professor Brian Derby says that they are the only team in the world to work out how to print human cells without destroying them in the process."
So, does this mean they're taking skin cells that are already created en masse from cell culturing and reshaping them? I mean, I assume they're not just "printing" new actual cells, right ? The article seems a little vague on this point.
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"PC LOAD LETTER? What the fuck is PC LOAD LETTER?"
"Suck on this, moron."
cheap plastic surgery!
Obviously the local gag at the lab is printing out a huge penis on your coworker's printer. Literally.
This could certainly bring new meaning to Origami...or for that matter those paper model kits could be a lot more interesting too!
might actually be true?
Agile Artisans
I'm gonna print me a new manhood
I'm sure that owners of these printers will have to pay a heck of a lot for small refill cartridges. Probably almost as much as they pay for ink for their regular printers. :-)
This gives photocopying your bum a disturbing new dimension ...
OK, so we now have a way to make non-cow killing leathers. So when will it be that I can get my couch covered in human skin or a nice purse?
PC Load Letter. What the Funk does that mean!
"The printer would revolutionise current treatments, which are based on grafting skin or bone from other parts of the body or replacing broken bones with metal plates. These carry carry a risk of scarring and possible rejection by the body." "Sorry, my body only uses HP CellJet248i Ink..."
Breach of patent, I saw this in Fifth Element.
Hey look this fax's header is "ebola" oh #$@!
Thought I already saw that in the article... Oh, maybe not
I have freaks! I did something right...
Reminds me of the way they recreated LeeLu on "The Fifth Element".
I can see it now, people bragging about their new Epson cuticles, Kyocera earlobes, Samsung elbow skin patches... No HP though, it will go bust due to its region encoded skin protection. "I'm sorry, you're from India and you cannot buy American skin."
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This was one of the theories exlained to me, years ago in a physics class on how matter transportation may be accomplished...reconstructing by layers.
The downside was you had to be destroyed to find out what you were made of in order to reassemble you.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
It's called a transporter.
Can I get my foreskin back now?
*actually* fax my ass! Who first...? :)
This sort of new printer technology always comes up... and fades away again. Remember printers that print "smells" a few years back? What about those 3d-object printers. Sure, they're used in labs somewhere, but when will these things become commercially viable and available?
Could this be the poor man's way to teleport himself? Just fax yourself over to a bio printing machine?
Screw bones and liver. I just want to print out a BLT at 3am...
That prints inkjet cartridges
I have freaks! I did something right...
I am going back to my own planet. You humans are just too silly.
Fax Machines are so last century; How about sending them by Instant Messenger?
............
New organs could spread around the world in seconds.
I can see a huge marketplace for celebrity noses. P2P organ-sharing rocks.
Next steps:
Company develops DRM for tissue.
Microsoft buys them.
Copying Rampant.
Lawsuits from OPIAA; Organ Production Association of America.
Or maybe not... A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
It seems way to early for April Fools jokes.
When the paper jams in THAT printer.. yikes!
Meet new people, and kill them.
Am I the only one that reads this and thinks, beam me up scotty? I mean isn't that the point of a transporter? Instant clone, but somewhere else?
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I sure hope so. I'd hate to have an emergency skin graft and get some elbow skin on my forehead...
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
"Could it lead to a fax machine for complete living organisms?"
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Gives new meaning to the phrase: "I'm expecting a fax from Darmstadt" (See first comments under: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/
But wait, there's more!
"You could print the scaffolding to create an organ in a day"
If you thought printing porn to run to the bathroom was sweet now, just wait until you get your hands on one of these babies. I can just imagine these on display at Best Buy..
Is it anything like a vcr?
"PC LOAD LETTER? What the fuck does that mean?"
pretty darn cool
CAM for reconstructive surgery using the patients own materials as seed for a material farm
combine this with rapid prototype machine for the
soluble plastic support structure and
MJ will be able to get his nose fixed
My in box with be full with..."print your self I new GIANT PENIS NOW"...
Finally, porn with a "Download Now" button!
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Wonder if there will be a human skin recycle bin like the paper recycle bin next to most printers.
And for those sensitive printouts it'll be a challenge to feed the skin/body part through a shredder.
Dumpster diving will be more interesting, that's for sure.
Invalid Checksum. Retrying.
Wonder if there will be those remanufactured cartridges or those "fill it yourself" kits....or if the company will incorporate cartridge control chips like lexmark.
Sweet! Now I know how they got that kick-ass wallpaper in Doom...
...for April Fools guys.
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That hot PA that got a little tipsy and thought she would give all the guys a Xmas present sits on the photo copier (xerox machine) to bring them some Xmas joy. After all they have been perving at her all year.
Not that I have been at one of those parties, but the future holds some interesting prospects for those that will.
They should team up with Aubrey de Grey down south - surely they could as easily produce fresh skin and bones to keep us all looking young..
Finally, I'll be able to have a copy of the Necronomicon bound the way Abdul Alhazred intended.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
... I can finally order 'personal' leatherbound books?
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
if, that is, they want to print me a new "organ".
Or else it gets the hose again.
Remember when Capt. Crunch was randomly dialing numbers, and he found Richard Nixon's # in the White House? Good, now place yourself in a similar situation.
100 years from now, you're randomly wardialing and you stumble onto the Dick Cheney's fax machine. Now you fax him the "scaffolding" for a tribble. The president of the time will be like "WTF? HAX!" and VP Cheney will say "Toss it." So whoever's there crumples it up and throws it in the recycle bin...
Good so far?
Except crumpling it up is precisely what's required to assemble the cellsheet into a working tribble! So 100 years and 3 days from now, it's feasible to conceive of the possibility of the Democrats retaking the White House!
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I just looked into a laser beam!
Now that we can print human skin I can easily run off authentic looking copies of the Necronomicon.
Could it lead to a fax machine for complete living organisms?
Ouch. That would be one painful transporter.
One of these printers with a software package to tailor-design your girlfriend!
Then just print her...
Most pop stars just sound flat and have the personality of a cardboard cutout. If you could print them out, though.....
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
"...Engineering Laboratory at the Medical University of South Carolina, is one of the scientists who has rigged Hewlett-Packard and Canon inkjet printers to shoot out proteins instead of ink, and to capture tissue on specialized gel instead of paper. Older printers work well because their spray nozzles have larger holes and are less likely to damage fragile cells. It would be great to have a use for these old printers instead of searching for a place to recycle them safely..." Link
SCO can sue you for using a patented limb design called "h-a-n-d".
This sig does not contain any SCO code.
Will it ever be able to print out a persons soul?
This is going to change the porn magazine business forever...
I can finally be black!
The ink cartridges are gonna cost an arm and a leg!!!
I for one, welcome our new cybornetically-enhanced/immortal overlords.
Seriously, am I the only one that sees the potential in making a liver that can take more than a couple months of hardcore clubbing? If not, perhaps just replacing it like used batteries? Or maybe just those nights when you drink so much that the subsequent DnD match seems all so realistic...
Nevermind, forget that last part... CLUBBING! YEAH! WOO! I'M COOL TOO!
*cries*
I'm a signature virus. Please copy me to your signature so I can replicate.
Fax-A-Heart 9000! That's right, with the Fax-A-Heart 9000 you can truly give your person a direct copy of the organ used to express emotion for thousands of years--your heart! Imagine the look on her face when she hears the phone ringing on her fax! Order right now and we'll include the Print-A-Spleen absolutely free!
--Chag
I'd like to get a printout of my foreskin. I seem to have lost mine.
Oops, the pages stuck together.
So soon I'll be able to make a copy of the Necronomicon, virtually identical to the original, without the mess and without the cops snooping around my place?
Just a dedicated transsexual sociopath.
"It rubs the inkwell on its skin or else it gets the hose again!"
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
Will fingerprint security will need to be revised?
comes to mind.
1st the mil will print parts to get the guys back in the field.
next thing you know they'll be printing customized fighting men
penis enlargement is finally here
in other news, recent polls show that woman have never been happier...
I don't think I'd want to see how the porn industry would use this...
-g.
Simple fact, answer required.
Now I don't have to feel bad about putting a lot of miles on this liver!
I'd like to print out something 11 1/2 by 14
and get a satchel with a belt to carry it around
This is great news in making the reconstruction of tissue cheaper and more reliable through automation. The main enabling tech here is the phase of the process where patient skin cells are harvested, multiplied, and returned to them. They don't necessarily have to wait in a hospital while that labwork is performed. These kinds of autologous donations, donating tissue to oneself, can become much more common.
Personal bloodbank accounts should already be the norm, with risky behaviors insured only when blood is stored; the bank can charge "interest", putting some of the collected blood into the pool, along with aging blood in the accounts. That kind of preemptive storage will be prudent in general, when larger scale economics bring prices down. So I'd put some liver and kidney tissue in the bank when I started drinking, and start growing a replacement when a medical exam showed my original organ on the way out. Sperm or possibly egg cells might turn out to be a good source of stemcells to keep "on file", a hedge against later tumors or other disease/damage.
A lot of the anticipated benefits of "cloning" will be delivered by autologous donation. Most of the tech is already available, for several organs. This inkjet system will harness all that momentum, and perhaps make it available (and affordable) for much less serious health crises. Their combination has the potential to change injuries and disease from crises to mere problems.
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This surely sounds like a very interesting idea for an economic printing, for I've heard that human skin is actually cheaper than the ink. The best results are achieved with skin tattooed with CMYK colors.
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
Finally, all the coders at EA Games who work 16 hour days and sleep in their cubes can get that perfect tan they have always wanted!
Hmm...an EA Games coder with no tan lines *shudder*
"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."
The price of soylent green is at an all-time low.
paintball
Looks like, "It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it get the hose again!" is a thing of the past. The psychopaths of tomorrow will soon be able to use this printer to build their skin suits the 21st century way!
I must be a pervert...
I think just about everyone here viewed it in medical terms "this can save lives", "organ transplant".
I was just thinking about a new era of porn. The pornstar gets faxed to you.
Thanks to the HP Manchester division not only doesn't it need to put the lotion on its skin, it won't ever get the hose again. And refills are so reasonably priced, third-party refills are a thing of the past.
PC load letter? What the **** does that mean??
Trying to stay on topic here (and not start a religious debate), but this "faxing" of a human might work in the physical sense, but what is to guarantee that your memories/essence/soul/etc. stay perfectly intact?
I mean I forget enough allready!
I can just imagine how much these ink cartridges will cost!
This presents several interesting questions:
1) Will I be able to fax myself to Mars?
2) Will the me on Mars be a duplicate/clone or will it be me?
3) Won't cloning be obsolete? Why bother cloning yourself when you can just make a "photocopy" that pops out of the printer.
4) How do you decide who is the "real" person? I mean what if I need part of a spinal cord or some other item that has to be harvested from a fully developed "me"?
2 cents,
Queen B
HDGary secures my bank
Does this mean if you have your HP SkinJet accidently set to HPGL when you send it PostScript, hundreds of random body parts will start flying out of the printer?
Gee, I wouldn't want to be on a rainy day with one of those ink-printed arms!
doesn't an inkjet printer imply a jet of ink? wouldn't it be a celljet printer?
that the skin printed off in europe will not work in the US due to the dollar lowering in value?
I cant imagine tuning THAT printer to get the perfect skintone. Hmm wheres the "pink thats darker than the last one, yet lighter than the one before that" button..
Like the saying goes, never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes. -Pyrotic
You'll never get cirrhosis with a half-assed effort like that. Grab a case at least.
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
...and not a penis-enlargment joke in sight.
*checks url*
yeah, this *is* slashdot, but not as we know it!
#hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
Hopefully black ink will do better this time around.
so many porn jokes...
Founder, Americans Allied Against Alliteration
What the fuck. Go get a life.
Even if this had anything at all to do with the discussion, let alone the article, you are a dumbass. You fell for at least two logical fallacies.
Will the cheap inkjet cart spam now be combined with the penis extension spam?
Another problem with skin grafts is that they motherfucking hurt! Jesus H. God do they motherfucking hurt! I spent eight weeks in a hospital in 2003 and ended up with about 200 square inches of donor site and goddamnit it hurt! I ended up having my left leg amputated below the knee because it had been crushed and my tibia and fibula were broken in three places and even after that I'd have to say that the skin grafts were the most painful thing that happened to me. Any surgical procedure where the doctor describes it as "We take this device called a dermatome, which looks like a rotary cheese grater, and run it back and forth over the donor site to harvest a thin layer of skin" is not going to be any fun to go through and afterwards the donor sites are red and raw like a serious case of road rash.
If they could print up enough skin, quickly enough it would be a huge, huge, huge advance. I wish them the best of luck.
cheap labor conservatives - they want to keep you hungry enough to be thankful for minimum wage.
Maybe I can finally get back that almost 15 sq. inches of pecker skin I never knew..
They cut the burned tissue off with a long thin sharp knife with a depth gauge. It's just like watching the guy at the Greek deli cut strips off the lamb for a Gyro. Once they've got down to viable tissue, they wrap you up, staple the bandages on (yes right into your flesh like a band flyer on a phone pole)
Then they take this skin shaver and grind little sheets off your ass. Oh, unless of course you really got burned bad, and your ass is toast too. Then hopefully someone who died recently was nice enough to allow skin to be harvested off their dead ass. The skin is then run through this expander thing, that cuts a fishnet pattern into it. This fishnet flesh is then draped over the raw meat and it slowly (and painfully) grows back together.
Now imagine the doctor in the burn center prints off some custom fit sheets of skin for your raw meat. No extra hurts and scars on your already way wounded body. And maybe a reduced chance of infection with the graft. I hope they can make something workable out of this.
...for cannibals
Required reading for internet skeptics
I can't wait to sit there hitting the 'clean printhead' button squirting random proteins until i make my own creature :)
Now my Creepy Crawlers will actually crawl, see now THAT'S progress !
Yeah and based upon early 1980's computers you'd think hires color inkjet printing would never arrive. Given enough parallel processing the tearing down and storage probably wouldn't be the worst of the worries. It probably would be bleeding to death while being re-assembled that I think is the challenge.
Assuming it could be done and kickstart your mind to where it had been before you were disintegrated, you should be able to make backups (then all you'd have to do is have to talk one into dying so you could live... read 'Good Night, Mr. James' by Clifford D. Simak)
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I remember reading about this about a year ago, and I'm sure it was here. Yet despite whatever search methods I use, I can't find it! Anyone care to enlighten me? Or am I experiencing unexplained deja vu?
only rock stars need apply....
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
"Could it lead to a fax machine for complete living organisms?"
Now *that* would be a fax to lose the carrier at.
"We have the head! The shoulders are out too!!! IT'S A BOY! oh f- *CARRIER LOST*
> Could it lead to a fax machine for complete living organisms?
The next obvious step is to add a wireless link and voila! Star Trek transporter! (Except that you need a receiving apparatus at the other end)
My rights don't need management.
Print a bigger member today...
Perl Programmer for hire
One cheap carbon cartrage and I'm printing diamonds.....
Read David Brin's "Kiln People" (2002).
sci fi wins again!
Dupe!
This brings new meaning to the 'lpr' command.
Yes I'll take 20 pounds of booby please
A flatbed scanner that can perform liposuction.
I don't think this article means what most people reading it probably think it means.
How would such a machine replicate the DNA and RNA in the cells nucleus? There are 3 billion base pairs in human DNA. At 1000hz (roughly the speed at which an inkjet printer shoots ink drops) it would take 833 hours to produce the DNA in a single cell. Even if they are able to operate at 1mhz it would take about an hour per cell.
So, do they clone the DNA using a separate process and then just squirt one set of chromosomes into each nucleus or do they produce zombie cells that have no dna?
Reading the pre-lobotomized version of the article, we see that it doesn't print proteins at all but instead prints already duplicated cells into position. And the scaffold they refer to is not the flat substrate shown in the picture but is apparently a plastic lattice that holds the cells in position and then disolves in the body once the cells have joined to each other and the existing tissue.
Ahh....so THAT's how he changed his skin...
I bet the cartridges cost an arm and a leg.
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
"What colour hair would sir like to have? Straight, curly, wavy?"
As with many new techs the sex industry will be the 1st to use.
Grow your own organ? Imagine what that will mean..
Would you like that delivered or faxed...
When you can go from place to place in a fax machine? There is something really nostalgic about it.
"Do you remember mommy when we went to Disneyland in the fax machine?"
OK, maybe the new thing could make a person in a day, compared to the current 9 months, but that doesn't give you much time to buy pampers and paint the room.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
But there is some serious change in the wind from this kind of tech.
Just printing tissue could be huge. Not just for medicine. But how about you start printing Big macs. No more raising a cow. Just harvest some cells and start a culture farm that in turn prints out big mac patties based on muscle tissue of the approprite parts.
Print any kind of meat. Or other food matter. No mass salughter of animals any more or having to raise them on a massive scale.
Not against animals beint eaten.. Trust me I come from the
"I love animals. try to eat at least one a day"
School of thought. But this would be a boon for a country like Japan where they don't have room to raise large herds of livestock and have to import.
This would also alleviate alot the fears of things like Mad Cow disease. You could also print any kind of cellular matter. Print a healthy microwave dinner in animal shapes for kids in their favorit colors.
Food supplies no longer linked to harvest and weather but linked to energy and the ability to induce cell growth.
That is just one possibility in addition to the cloning and organ possibilities. There was a bit in Pop Sci this month where someone has rigged a supply of cement as an 'ink' to a massive 'ink jet' head on a three D motion scaffolding to print buildings. Imagine a house complete with plumbing and electricity printed in a day or two.
Star Trek hypo sprays. Ink Jet Technology. Already asthma style inhalers with injet dispersal are being eyed as a medicine delivery method over shots and even the possibility of direct atomization in to the blood stream ala hypo spray.
Plastic fast prototyping technology. Print a cell phone cover, Comb, Toothbrush, ziplock bags and any number of other household common items. Slightly more complex would actually be able to print circut boards and buttons. Remote Controls, calculators. Even if the tech never made it to the home it can easily revolutionize manufacturing to an extent not seen since the industrial revolution. "Grandpa did people really used to sit on a assembly line all day long putting widgets together ???" The question there is only speed and economy of scale.
and not only that but the ability to alter the design on the fly without any major retooling. Man it is exciting. Course there is the issue of what the masses of factory workers would do if their jobs were largely eliminated.
I don't ask you to be me. I only ask you not expect me to be you.
Minor mistakes over time add up to major problems.
Photocopying is a form of high speed cloning. Ie your clone the cells are then machine placed. Could be a fix to the kindney problems and diabetes.
Liver can fix itself in most cases if you stop doing what is damaging it before its destoryed.
Note the big problem could be another problem. Cells can only replicate so many times. So replacement parts may have a short life. This could be a big problem if it is not fixed.
Am I the only one picturing "Adam" right now?...
Looking at the naked Eve who has just turned up beside him, quite liking what he sees. "So, this is what I get for a spare rib?"
Looking at the printer. "Can you get back to me in a few hours? Maybe with the full catalogue?"
And yet we still have to put the lotion in the basket.
"OH SHIT, THERE'S A HORSE IN THE HOSPITAL!"
...takes on a whole new meaning. Psycho: I'll just fax this *actual* anthrax virus to the White House. President: Hey, looky! A faxy thing! GAH WTF *dead*
Do you really want people doing things to your ass?
Will the new skin be digitally signed?
I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.
Yes, and in related news (using the word loosely, as always, here on /.), you may even be able to fax it into an alternate universe.
Did anyone else think of the 5th Element when they read this article?
Try eMusic. DRM free, legal, MP3 downloads.
"mmSmoke 'em if you got 'em rar rar rar..."
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
...would be to see if it could fix Michael Jackson's face. Actually, maybe they could punish vile criminals by using it to print a reproduction of his face over their's.
Let's see, I'd like a number 7...and that's it.
<chht>Okay, that's one blonde female, 38-24-34. Would you like some thighs with that?</chht>
Yes.
Yay! A transporter at 9600 baud
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I guess it doesn't need to put the lotion on its skin anymore...
and now back to the fallout shelter...
Do I even WANT to know?
The dangers of excessive individualism are nothing compared to the oppressiveness of excessive collectivism
I never thought I'd look back at the movies Silence of the Lambs and think to myself "thats so low tech."
But how soon will they be able to print out mila jovovitch???
I dont do meaning of life questions.
you print out a heart with an HP does that mean that HP owns the copyright to the heart? That's if I read my EULA right. Please don't sue me I have no money and ment above as satire.
"It's so convenient to have a system where everyone is a criminal" - A. Hitler
A larger than life size copy of your own ass.
Saturday Night Live was simply predicting the future of the Assjet with their skit.
How about the potential to create artificial muscle tissue for the express purpose of food generation? As in print out a slab of new york strip steak for example? Could this solve the food problems on long duration space flights?
If not for space travel, think of gloating to your veagan freind that your t-bone was not the product of a slaughter. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
....move along....nothing to see here....
I'm not going to fix the printer when it jams.
Too bad they're so expensive, I was really hoping to print out a copy of the Necronomicon, the e-book is just not the same =:-)
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Hmm, better keep this technology in the right hands. One could print custom fingerprints a la "Gone in 60 seconds."
The price will be steep indeed. In fact, it will cost "an arm and a leg"
I am gonna have a small problem with keeping paper in the fax cause its gonna need 16250 pages or so to print you out !
Hopefully the tray doesnt overflow and you end up out of order, hehe.
That piece of blank paper sticking out of your belly from when it fed 2 sheets at a time will then be a status symbol ?!?
It was called The Fly...I think we all know how that ended up... :)
"Where could this technology lead in a 100 years I wonder? Could it lead to a fax machine for complete living organisms?"
I see it now, country music songs like "I faxed her my heart"
All I want is a machine where I can make my own freaky orange haired chick. Is this too much to ask?
The weathers here - Wish you were beautiful
Finally idiots could print out new brains for themselves, if they manage to figure out how to print first !
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver.
Yndrd1984
- "...100 years.." Gimme a break! We don't know what is going to happen in the next 10 years...Why not just write: "this is an incremental break through in reconstructive surgery but it won't be interesting to
/. readers unless we set a timeframe that invites sloppy science fiction discussion "
- "Could it lead to a fax machine for complete living organisms?"Goofy speculation insanely beyond the already dubious speculation in the art. [researcher quoted in TFA:"...we aren't there yet" was speaking of scaffolds for organs, i.e. connective tissue only not whole organs] did poster RTFA?
- I only saw a few
informed comments well down from the top about what medical techniques are needed to compliment and make the potential of the tissue printer viable
- Since when is the 5th or 10th repeat of "I'll fax my fanny to the whitehouse" worthy of anything but REDUNDANT?
- if you just HAVE to talk about transporters as if they were the very next step beyond a system that harvests a certain cell type, ferments up a batch of those cells suspended in a fluid that keeps em alive as they are shot out a nozzle...then why not address the minor difficulty of sampling every kind of tissue you have [ brain cells with many specializations and perhaps as much of their critical functionality in the physiology of their synaptic connections as in their cellular chemistry may not even be the hardest to get right] and getting ALL of them to mass produce themselves in the same large ratio? Wouldn't it be more likely and less painful to suppose that in the future, MRI resolution could be got down to the cellular level? [and MRI also reports chemical activity for some atoms and some reactions] The easiest requirement for such a system that we could project meeting in the future might be the data capacity to almost simultaneously encode and transmit the exact location and orientation of the gazillions of cells in a living organism.
I am always wary of the mention of "soul" in aYou call that a troll? I have a whole beltway full of trolls better than that!
Now I can get a lampshade made of human skin without resorting to genocide.
so I could have a porn star delivered via fax without the neighbours knowing? Sweet.
So just like regular photo printers, these will print an "invisable" ID number on all the skin and organs that can be used to trace people.
Evil technology at work here.
Beware...
... due to the fact that you can now 'print' a new set of fingerprints every week (or just after every crime).
In other news.. skin grafting is now a federal offense..
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Micheal Jackson has been using one for years. His black ink ran out a long time ago, however.
The misleading detail is the "inkjet printer" concept. For one, you would need tanks of nutrient bred human cells, which not only would take a good deal of time, but would require the patient live long enough to use them.
Secondly, you would need an individual sterile system for each application, meaning a "printer" would need to be prepped and ready, along with a sterile substrate (assumably collagen) to "print" on, AND a cell supply free of enough defective cells to use for the "ink".
Upon this, inkjet printers don't technically work in layers on a cellular basis, you need a printer that works in 3D, not 2D.
I wish these writers would at least consider the details in their reports.
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
Where could this technology lead in a 100 years I wonder?
If the movies are any guide, it will be used to replicate the Perfect Being (aka "hot naked chick") from a DNA blueprint, and somehow preserving her memory in the process. I'll sign up as the cab driver.
Punctanym: alternate spelling of words using punctuation or numerals in place of some or all of its letters; see 'leet'
When I read the comments about the headlines, that was my first thought. Heh, I crack myself up.
*** once i really listened, the noise just went away. -liz phair
Um, the Brad Pit we haven't tried that yet.
Just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe, aye.
Now, I can quit trying to wear a bra on my head, model the girl on my PC with the green monochrome monitor, and hope that lightning strikes. Still no Kelly LeBrock in my closet.
Linux at home
PRIOR ART! -God
This could be a great way to quickly produce needed vaccines on demand. I wonder how many phages per minute the first models will print...
A republic cannot succeed till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.
I read a book, I forget the name.. but they had the concept of a bio compiler... can you send me the supermodel lib please?
Fax me up!
Why, oh why, didn't I take the Blue Pill?
This means that the phrase "I got a virus from my printer" could actually be correct.
instead of the tip being pointy like
you would expect, the tip is *FLAT*
(the head almost looks like a trapazoid when looking at it). I wonder if the printer ran out of
ink?
and precovered in hot grits!
It is a well known fact that scientists often try to make it into the mainstream media, just so they can get funding.
If this team would tell the true story, nobody would even bother donating money, so they come up with a more spicy story! This is how it has been done in the past and it has eventually given us some nice inventions, technologies or breakthroughs.
So whenever you read a story that tells you that a scientists claims to have (almost) achieved something revolutionary, translate that into "I am merely halfway and I need funding.".
I faxed my friend an arm and a leg but all he got was spam....(badump!)
When can I print out my own perfect being just like in the Fifth Element?
It's interesting how the thermal bandages only covered the "sensitive" areas.
If it could make another dog for Fry then I won't have to feel like crap every time I see that Futurama episode. You know the one. Where the dog spends it's whole life waiting for Fry to come home, and there's the song, and... *snif*
JUST PRINT ANOTHER FUCKING DOG, OK!?!
"Could it lead to a fax machine for complete living organisms?"
Uuurggh. Think of the porn spam.
Sky subscribers are morons. They pay to be advertised at !
Over here we like to cover our books with genuine jew skin instead of some cheap knock-off substitute.
Take your fakes somewhere else!
Dear /. moderators,
Is there a chance you could update the link to the University of Manchester new web site? Indeed, following the merger of the University of Manchester with UMIST, the new website since Octobre 1st is http://www.manchester.ac.uk/, replacing the old http://www.man.ac.uk/, as indicated on top of the site.
I know it is not in your policy to edit posts once they have been submitted, but for future references, could the Related Link to the University be updated?
Thanks a lot,Gilles
--
University of Manchester, UK
PhD student
If only Frankenstein had this technology...
Codito, ergo sum.
"Could it lead to a fax machine for complete living organisms?"
I bet the crew of the Enterprise never dreamed that their worst enemy might be a paper jam!
If I could print me one of those, I'd be a happy camper :)
I dream the day I can have a meal printer with that. You don't need the stuffs to stay alive.
:)
Search google for a food receipt you'd like to eat, CTRP+P and voila
Léa Gris
Fax order brides!
Could it lead to a fax machine for complete living organisms?
If you thought those penis enlargement spams were bad enough already...
Music speeds up when you yawn, but does not change pitch.
So, in Star Trek, whenever they transported someone, was there someone charged with the task of killing the body left behind?
"I'm sorry sir, but you just transported down to the planet surface and it's my job to kill you."
I guess they had to do this in order to keep costs down.
BTM
That was the turning point of my life--I went from negative zero to positive zero.
5E question. What did he mean when he said "I am a meat popsicle". It's been driving me crazy for many many years.
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This would be where they'd get the recycled materials for the "Ink Refill Kits".
Damn, now I'm trying to get my phone number scraped off the "Do Not Call, or FAX" list. And...it...will...not...go...away.
Realistically, the transporter will need to work by creating a wormhole or something.
It is also more reasonable for such transporter to work without requiring a device on both ends of the transport.