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    Clusterfrog
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      #1249496
      DaftFader
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        The idea for this tech has been about fora good few years … there was stuff about ten years ago about it if you look back! It’s just not been very widely reported for some reason (mby honing the tech or something). There’s been talk about possibilities at some point of being able to build organic things cell by cell via the same tech at some point in the future (seen’s as we are discusing synthetic meat in the other thread).

        It does look bloody cool though, it’s basicaly a massive dot matrixs printer that builds up things verticaly as well as horizontaly and obviously dosn’t use ink.

        (EDIT, I just read we can already print food lol)

        #1249500
        Clusterfrog
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          we can print food? where’d you read that??

          #1249497
          DaftFader
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            @Clusterfrog 468904 wrote:

            we can print food? where’d you read that??

            on the article you posted (i heard about the idea ages ago, didn’t realize we could already do it).

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            The benefit to society is huge. No more shipping huge amounts of products around the world. No more shipping the broken products back. No more child labour. We’ll be able to print food for hungry people. We’ll be able to share not only a recipe, but the full meal.

            Read more: http://techland.time.com/2012/01/24/next-frontier-in-piracy-downloading-physical-objects-to-your-3d-printer/#ixzz1mwBUBIE7

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            the ability to print relatively simple objects (even food) is already here and will continue to get more refined over time.

            Star Trek or what? 😛

            #1249501
            Clusterfrog
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              ah yeah missed that bit! bring it on, soon we’ll be able to hack these things to print drugs!

              #1249498
              DaftFader
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                @Clusterfrog 468910 wrote:

                ah yeah missed that bit! bring it on, soon we’ll be able to hack these things to print drugs!

                :laugh_at:

                #1249495
                cheeseweasel
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                  They’ll probably sell it for £40 then stiff us on the cartridges as usual…

                  #1249499
                  DaftFader
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                    rofl!

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