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3-D Printer Creates Buildings From Dust and Glue
An anonymous reader writes "D-Shape, an innovative new 3-D printer, builds solid structures like sculptures, furniture, even buildings from the ground up. The device relies on sand and magnesium glue to actually build structures layer by layer from solid stone. The designer, Enrico Dini, is even talking with various organizations about making the printer compatible with moon dust, paving the way for an instant moonbase!"
I, for one, say "neato!".
Heaven forbid they put a sealant on the interior facing walls. That's just pure lunacy!
...I'll finally be able to get that 10 foot statue of my butt that I've always wanted.
Maybe it prints money too?
meep
what do you mean? a thousand yards long for those endless running scenes, Or where a wife can lock her husband out but a raptor or sabre-tooth tiger can come in through any window?
Dust is cheap, why scale down?
Okay, how long before the High-Capacity Building Cartridges are available? And will they only come 1/10th full? Perhaps the InkJet Manufacturer's have a new customer base to fleece... One slightly filled cartridge per color = PROFIT!
Probably a bad ideas to drill holes in the walls -- but at least if they do, the dust from drilling will go outside rather than come inside (well, at least for a while, and by the time that's no longer true, no one inside will really care much anymore).
Why is there an "insightful" mod and why isn't it "-1"? If I wanted insight, I wouldn't be reading
he's trying asbestos he can