Injured Bald Eagle Gets New 3-D Printed Beak

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Injured Bald Eagle Gets New 3-D Printed Beak

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @02:32AM from the terrorist-your-game-is-through dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A bald eagle that lost its beak to a poacher's gun receives a 3-D printed beak prosthetic like a dental implant." More (with pictures): "Mr Calvin, a founder of the Boise-based Kinetic Engineering Group, made a mold of Beauty's shattered upper mandible, laser-scanned it, fine-tuned it in a 3D modeling program, and created a prosthetic beak from a nylon-based polymer."

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Too realistic by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-12 02:37 · Score: 4, Funny

They really had an opportunity here. What would be cooler than a bald eagle with a shiny carbon-fiber-and-titanium beak? Maybe make him some razor sharp metal talons too. That would give the poachers pause!
Now... by gman003 · 2012-09-12 02:48 · Score: 3, Funny

Now just to give it a 3d-printed gun, so it can go get revenge on the poacher who shot it.
animal prosthetics by Guano_Jim · 2012-09-12 02:48 · Score: 5, Funny

I was recently asked by a client to 3D print some replacement parts for his pet duck.
But he balked when I gave him the bill.

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1. Re:animal prosthetics by skine · 2012-09-12 03:22 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I was recently asked by a client to 3D print some replacement parts for his pet duck.
  But he balked when I gave him the bill.
  That joke is just foul.
  *ducks*
Re:Will it survive UV breakdown? by Megane · 2012-09-12 02:50 · Score: 5, Funny

I think not being able to eat is a bigger health problem than some hypothetical chemicals. In any case, fish will probably taste better than hand-feeding it with the flesh of Anonymous Cowards.

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Re:Just when I thought by WhiteDragon · 2012-09-12 02:54 · Score: 4, Informative

That 3D printing couldnt get any more awesome, something like this comes out of nowhere an proves that, yes, it can!
What implications does this hold for humans?aube we could get 3D printe false teeth with A faster turn-around than current moulding techniques.
I actually have such a tooth. I went into the dentist's office. He scanned my mouth with a 3d scanner, then used software to model the missing tooth. Then, the software sent the output to a milling machine, with a ceramic-on-metal blank. Total time, less than an hour from scanning my mouth to implanted tooth. I already had an implant grafted to my jawbone, so this was just the crown, but still, I was very impressed.

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Re:So now our national mascot gets plastic surgery by ZeroSumHappiness · 2012-09-12 03:38 · Score: 3, Insightful

I know this is a random AC posting something meant to be humorous but I have to chime in: Plastic surgery was originally developed to repair damage by accident, injury or disease. Fixing an eagle's beak would actually be the exact purpose of plastic surgery as originally developed.
Re:Will it survive UV breakdown? by GrumpySteen · 2012-09-12 04:32 · Score: 4, Insightful

Inquisitive means "inclined to ask questions", not "inclined to ask intelligent questions."