3D Printing Might Save the Rhinoceros

GordonShure.com writes: San Francisco based biotech startup Pembient have released details of their 3D printing led method to derail the market for Rhinoceros horns. Presently the bulk of demand originates from China, where said horns — gathered in the wild by poachers who usually kill the rhinos — are revered for supposed medicinal qualities. The new firm intends to mix keratin with Rhino DNA, then machine the combination with a 3D printer in a way that their counterfeit horns are difficult to detect by customers and traffickers alike.

The company already mulls expanding its production principle to other, lucrative wild animal trades such as the claws of tigers and lions. Pembient is however a young company — for all their ingenuity, will their ambitions to take on such a colossal black market be realized?

Comments

Re:The next Jurassic park movie

[Adriax]

"Run! We only have 37 days before the t-rex finishes printing and comes to get us!"

"We call it the Cartridge Contingency. If the dinosaurs become uncontrollable we just stop replacing the cartridges in the printer and no more dinosaurs. Much faster than the Lysine Contingency of the first island."

Re:Will price point even matter?

[richy freeway]

I'd put it something that both makes people puke their guts up and makes them unable to get it up (if such a thing exists).

Lots of beer then?

Re:This is great

[ArcadeMan]

for the rest of the market, it's a neat idea.

You know what else is a pretty neat idea? Digital watches.