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The Beckoning Promise of Personal Fabrication

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-it-make-me-a-sandwich dept.

posys noted an interesting talk from Neil Gershenfeld's called "The beckoning promise of personal fabrication". It's a TED talk which I've found greatly enjoyable in the past, and is worth your time, assuming you have 20 minutes to see something really neat. If you are interested, you can also return to the original TED page.

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  1. Embedded Video? by Dr.+Eggman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Embedded Video? Sweet!

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    This is awesome!

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    1. Re:Embedded Video? by CaptainPatent · · Score: 3, Funny

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    2. Re:Embedded Video? by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

      My favorite part of this video is the black background. Also the black foreground.

    3. Re:Embedded Video? by dkleinsc · · Score: 2, Funny

      How more black could it be? The answer is None. None more black.

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  2. TLA by rde · · Score: 3, Funny

    WTF is TED? I suppose I could RTFA (or even JFGI), but given that there is NFA, I don't know whether I should bother.

    Wow, I'd no idea so many initialisms had 'fuck' in them.

    ps: enlightenment dawns: maybe that flash thing I blocked isn't an ad after all, and is worth clicking on.

  3. personal fabrication of by zappepcs · · Score: 2, Funny

    cyclic links?

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  4. I thought something else by backslashdot · · Score: 2, Funny

    When I read title "the promise of personal fabrication", I thought they meant the benefits of making up lies for oneself.

    Honestly I did.

  5. I don't believe it by backslashdot · · Score: 4, Funny

    I read this story, it may seem to have some credibility .. but let me tell you .. it's all fabrication.

    Ba da Bim

  6. Personal fabrication? by ScentCone · · Score: 4, Funny

    I didn't have time to RTFA, but this is about writing resumes, right?

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  7. Re:News for nerds... by Bloke+down+the+pub · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... Duped Mar 2009

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  8. fabricate a woman? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wake me when we can fabricate females to have them around as servants and other things. Although it would be fun to fabricate an effigy of my boss and watch him melt in the microwave.

    DIE YOU BASTARD DIE!!!!

  9. Re:The overrated promise of personal fabrication by Zackbass · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're not looking forward far enough. The future of personal fabrication machines lies with magic dragons. Imagine downloading the plans for a giant robot and watching your magic dragon gobble up the raw materials and crap it out with precision that only a magic dragon can provide. I personally can't wait for magic dragon research to bring us these magical beasts, sure the scientists at the forefront of magic dragon research can't so much as make a magic toenail, but it's right around the corner!

    See how much more sense it makes when I say it?

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  10. Xkcd is the prophet again... by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...as it is clearly evident.

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