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?"

Comments

Great Marketing

[fembots]

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.

So

[cbrocious]

So you're saying that I can print a new liver? Sweet! *breaks out a 6-pack*

Great, almost there

[Trogre]

Now all we need to do is figure out how to bombard a body with slightly greasy solar atoms.

give away printers... sell arms and legs

[myowntrueself]

"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?

Re:give away printers... sell arms and legs

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Quick!

Fax Bush a heart!

Re:give away printers... sell arms and legs

[new500]

"Where could this technology lead in a 100
years I wonder?"

-delete where redundant-

a) HP charges a commission every time you walk across a border.

b) N Portman 3D Models trade on the black market for fortunes.

c) First DMCA suit from woman who used skin printer for enhancements : "You voilated my personal copyright, you macho letcherous *&^*^&"

- woman looses at trial, Pam Anderson proven to have prior art.

d) Penis enlargement SPAM pioneers go legit and IPO.

e) Tattoos actually get popular and mainstream

f) oh, heck, over to you.

Carts..

[Sc00ter]

Will the carts be region coded?

obviously

[Hyksos]

Obviously the local gag at the lab is printing out a huge penis on your coworker's printer. Literally.

Refills

[Captoo]

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. :-)

Re:Refills

[Captoo]

Maybe not. But I bet that the cartridges that ship with the printer are only half full.

Buttocks

[BabyDave]

This gives photocopying your bum a disturbing new dimension ...

Re:Buttocks

[glenebob]

You find the third dimension disturbing? I don't mean to be anal, butt with a crack like that, I have to wonder how you prefer your asses: phat or flat?

Fantastic

[Vaystrem]

Hey look this fax's header is "ebola" oh #$@!

Could it lead to a fax machine for complete living

[Anonymous Coward]

It's called a transporter.

Awesome!

[Anonymous Coward]

Can I get my foreskin back now?

Sweet! Now I can...

[CrazyWingman]

*actually* fax my ass! Who first...? :)

Re:Skin

[sconeu]

I think so, Brain, but where are we going to get 40 cheerleaders and a vat of Cheez-Whiz?
NARF!
</PINKY>

Imagine the look on your face

[eieken]

When the paper jams in THAT printer.. yikes!

Re:Obligatory porn comment

[aslate]

Or the spam industry!

"Print your new, longer pen1s today! No need for vi4gra! Download the new 12 inch model today!"

However i fear the nozzle will get clogged half-way through.

Please let it be so.

[TiggertheMad]

I sure hope so. I'd hate to have an emergency skin graft and get some elbow skin on my forehead...

Re:Please let it be so.

[Suchetha]

well if you got foreskin applied to your eyelids, you could see the world all cockeyed..

suchetha

Re:Hmm

[Skidge]

No.

Good to hear. I wasn't looking forward to the fax spam we'd start getting. It would be funny, though, to come into the office in the morning and have a bunch of freshly printed salesmen locked in the fax room.

Re:Fifth Element

[Anonymous Coward]

visions of the body reconstructed by that machine...

Re:38DD's please.

[karnal]

Funk

Does that mean you've only seen the comedy central version of the movie?

c'mon, say it with me. Fuck. Fuck fuckedee fuck-fuck fuck. Sheeeit.

Re:Obligatory porn comment

[mjt AG]

That's funny you immediately thought about getting a new pen1s. I for one thought about printing out different types of girls.

Re:Beam Me Up, Mr. Scot

[raehl]

The good news is that we have invented a way to fax people by sending multiple slices.

The bad news is the people-slicer that feeds the fax machine keeps jamming.

Re:Beam Me Up, Mr. Scot

[chris_mahan]

The "church" is so 20th century. Now it's "faith-based organization". Much more, hum, sinister...

Nobody expects the American Inquisition...

Read my sig.

Loser

[siskbc]

So you're saying that I can print a new liver? Sweet! *breaks out a 6-pack*

You'll never get cirrhosis with a half-assed effort like that. Grab a case at least.

Inkjet Printer Prints out Human Skin

[Glonoinha]

I bet the cartridges cost an arm and a leg.

Re:Obligatory porn comment

[Rinikusu]

Hell, man. Who needs the actual *girl*?

"What's the useless fleshy skin around a vagina called?"

"A Woman"

Where's the -100, Sexist bastard option?

...Clarise...

[viva_fourier]

I guess it doesn't need to put the lotion on its skin anymore...

Re:The ultimate test of such a machine...

[iggymanz]

the ultimate test would be to print the girl from "weird science", preferably with a glandular disorder causing nymphomania

Patentable?

[pherthyl]

PRIOR ART! -God

Vaccines

[aquabat]

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...