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Scientists "Print" Human Vein With 3D Printer
An anonymous reader writes "3D Printing technology has recently leapt into a new realm — we've seen printers that can create entire buildings out of stone, delicious meals out of simple ingredients, and now — perhaps weirdest and coolest of them all — a printer that can build body parts from cells!"
Screw that, how soon until I get my own kung-fu Milla Jovovich to save the universe.
They're called printers because they build things in layers with positioned spraying or placement in 2D. Cars aren't printed now, but if they were it might make them cheaper.
Why bother with the transplant? Just press the printed skin against a few things. As long as it has the same oils as normal skin, you'll get good fingerprints. If it's the right temperature, it should fool most biometric sensors too (and a lot of existing ones even without that).
And then can we shoot whoever thought it was a good idea to use something that you leave on everything that you touch as a replacement for a password?
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fake fingerprints - can't you do that with a rubber cement mold?
That's why our criminal justice system's standard is "beyond a reasonable doubt." You can claim that Moussad framed you or that aliens did ittoday. You'd just have to convince a jury of your peers that such a situation is reasonable
(you're better off impugning the lab that did the fingerprint match.)