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Digital Manufacturing Open Systems Standard (DMOSS) v1.0 ABSTRACT This webpage discusses the design and implementation of a system to pulverize bulk material into nano-particles, purify those particles into “voxels”, transport them over a digital matter network (matter-net), and use 3D Printers to construct them into useable products.
Keywords: 3D Printing, Voxels, 3nk, Replicator, Digital Matter-Net, Additive Manufacturing,
OUTLINE
Looking Forward The Matter-Net
Other Possibilities Potential Abuses Matter-Net 2.0 Matter-Net 3.0 Back To the Present
Unfulfilled Promises Crossing The Digital Divide The Need For Standards Borrowing From the Internet Working With Voxels (3nk)
Creating Voxels (3nk)
Extraction Disintegration Digitization Manipulating Voxels (3nk)
Storage Transport Activation Streaming Voxels (3nk)
Grouping Dividing Propelling Holding Inserting Extracting Managing the Voxel (3nk) Stream
Vox-Modem Vox-Router Vox-Pump Vox-Captor Looking Forward The Digital Matter-Net
Digital Manufacturing is not a new idea, but one that has captured the imagination of science fiction lovers for many years. It has made appearances in StarTrek, The Fly, The 5th Element, even Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory. The concept is simple, break matter down into tiny pieces, transport those pieces across space, and assemble them into a finished product.
Imagine ordering a product over the internet. You finish customizing your item, complete the purchase, and your order is sent to the online store. Then the store trasmits building instructions to a manufacturer in your area, which in turn places orders for the materials.
The Material order arrives at an extraction company which digs raw material out of the ground, and grinds it into nano-particles. These nano-particles are then run through a “digitizer”…a machine that scans, sorts, and reduces the particles to their pure components.
These components are then sent to the manufacturer using the “matter-net”, a high-speed network of micro-scale tubes, pumps, and valves similar to the internet. Within hours they arrive at the manufacturer and are assembled, using the instructions sent by the online store, into the finished product.
Finally, your custom-made product is shipped to your door the same day, or the day after it was ordered. The product could be as simple as a chair or as complex as a car or computer. There is no limit to what can be made using this process.
Other Possibilities
In addition to manufacturing new products, the same process can be run in reverse for recycling. Lets say you get tired of your product and throw it away. It goes to a reclamation center where it is ground up into nano-particles, re-digitized, and then stored for future use.
Because we are breaking matter down, first into raw nano-particles, and then into pure elements, we can also use the same technology to clean up the environment. Garbage and other wastes can be turned into nano-particles and digitized just as easily as rocks and other raw materials. Anything that can be broken down and digitized can be used to manufacture products.
A third possibility is to use the technology to create active chemicals, including medicines. Although they should not be transmitted over the matter-net, active chemicals can be produced in a manufacturing plant from neutral materials using a digitizer. They can then be injected into capsules, suspended in liquid, or packed into pills.
Finally, the same processes used to create furniture and cars might also be made to produce food. Sugars, starches, fats, and proteins could be generated in a digitizer as easily as metals or plastics. They could then be put into a 3D printer and turned into edible constructions.
Potential Abuses
As with any technology, we need to guard against potential misuse. If provided the proper raw materials, a digitizer and 3D printer can be used to manufacture almost anything. This includes toxic chemicals, illegal drugs, explosives, and guns.
We also need to consider the potential for hackers to create malware that causes a digitizer to malfunction and harm its user. They might hack into the matter-net controls, causing jams, or sending materials to the wrong location. 3D Printers could be hacked and forced to order expensive or illegal materials, produce obscene, defective, or dangerous products, or fail to work at all.
Finally, this equipment can take digital piracy to a whole new level. Thieves could scan in any object, analyze it on a nano-scale, and then re-create it on a 3D printer. Then they could upload the plans to the internet for anyone to copy.
The Digital Matter-net v2.0
As impressive as this technology may seem, a yet more powerful technology looms on the horizon. While Matter-Net v1.0 operates with nano-particles, Version 2.0 will break matter down into individual ATOMS or molecules which can then be energized and fired along a magnetic channel at nearly the speed of light.
While Matter-Net v1.0 allows products to be digitally manufactured from raw materials within hours, Version 2.0 will create the same products in minutes. It will also allow us to create entirely new classes of products, precision engineered on a molecular level.
Matter-Net v2.0 will also allow us to do something that version 1.0 cannot…create living organisms. living things are made of cells, which in turn are made of complex nano-machines. These machines are too small for version 1.0 to create, but are perfect for 2.0 because they are nothing more than complex arrangements of atoms. It will also allow us to create tiny machines that can repair the body from the inside out.
While this technology allows us to clone organs, repair the body, and cure illness, it also introduces new threats. Matter-Net 2.0 will allow us to create deadly diseases like viruses and bacteria, or make poisenous organisms that bite, spray, or sting. It can also allow us to create tiny, self-replicating, destructive robots called disassembers.
In spite of these dangers, the technology will allow us to enter into an age of virtually limitless wealth unlike any the world has never seen. At the atomic level, matter is abundant, and Matter-Net 2.0 allows us to get it all.
The Digital Matter-Net v3.0 (aka Ener-Net)
The final development in the evolution of the Matter-Net is to convert matter into energy, and then into whatever form we desire. This is the transporter / replicator technology portrayed in StarTrek. It has several advantages over Matter-Net v2.0.
First, because we are converting matter to energy, we can use whatever happens to be available and transform it into whatever we need. Suddenly there are no scarce resources, and our only limitation is how much matter we have available for conversion.
Second, unlike matter-streams, we can transport energy wirelessly across space, reducing or eliminating the need for transport chaannels. This energy can be used to power system equipment, and it can also be patterned to transmit the instructions for assembly.
Finally, this technology would allow us to take advantage of resources on other planets in our solar system. We could extract matter from its surface, and then beam it to earth or to a space station. There is virtually no limit to what we could create with this technology.
Back To The Present Unfulfilled Promises
Over the past 30 years, starting in the 1970′s, we have seen the development of the Digital Economy. Computers and the internet promised to upend the old rules of econmy and create a world of abundance. And indeed, when it comes to information they have.
Today, a palm-sized computer can easily hold up to 100 Gigabytes of information. That is the equivalent of more than a month of continuous music, or a week of high-definition video. Destop machines can hold ten to 100 times that amount, and servers can hold more information than a human being can absorb in a lifetime.
Powerful networks allow this information to be transferred around the world at breathtaking speeds. A standard consumer connection has transfer rates of between 1 and 15 Mega-bits per second, allowing them to download an entire movie in a matter of minutes. High-speed connections run up to 100 Mega-bits per second, allowing a person to download a day of movies in the same amount of time. And commercial-grade fiber-optics can transfer data at Giga-bit and even TERA-BIT speeds, which would allow a person to download more material in a day than they could consume in their entire lifetime.
However, the real-world economy has remained stubbornly afixed in scarcity. Although books and movies can be reproduced millions of times and transmitted around the world, practically for free, cars, houses, and even basic food remain as expensive as ever. We cannot download a car or email a big-screen TV…at least not today.
Crossing The Digital Divide
3D Printing, or Additive Manufacturing, promises to bridge the gap between the physical and digital economies. This process allows a machine to produce a physical object from a digital design. However, to truly achieve digital manufacturing, there are several parts that are yet missing.
The first piece of the puzzle is to create a digital process to convert bulk materials into purified nano-particle (voxel) inks, or “3nk” (pronounced “thrink”, that can then be used in a 3D Printer. This process should take any feedstock…rocks, dirt, garbage, or even industrial waste…grind it into nano-particles, and digitize them.
Digitization involves using micro-scopic processes to analyze, sort, and purify those individual nano-particles, chemically separating them into useful compounds. Finally these compounds are to be collected and stored for use as “3nk” in a printer.
The next piece piece of the puzzle is to create a network of high-speed transport channels, similar to the internet, to move “voxels” or “3nk” over long distances. There also needs to be a method to “packetize” 3nk so that it can be addressed and routed in the same way informtion is directed on the internet. This “Matter-net” would allow objects to be transferred bit-by-bit, and then constructed just like a digital file.
The Need For Standards
Like computers and the internet, digital manufacturing and the matter-net need a set of open standards and protocols to guide its development. Standardization makes it easier for developers to create complex systems without knowing the underlying infrastructure. For example a person can send an email without knowing about how computer memory works, or understanding the intricacies of TCP/IP. It can run quietly in the background while people focus on living their lives.
Borrowing From the Internet
There is a great deal we can borrow from the standards already in place, the first being a modified version of the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) Model. Our version of the OSI model is as follows:
Physical Layer: Controls the properties of the 3D inks (3nks) and the equipment used to process it. Matter Link Layer: Controls how 3nk particles are grouped together for transport across a local matter network. Matter Network Layer: Controls how 3nk particles are grouped together for transport between matter networks. Matter Transport Layer: Controls the flow of matter and ensures reliable transfer between end users. Session Layer: Controls connections between devices, typically a printer and 3nk Server. Presentation Layer: Controls interactions by acting as a bridge between higher-level applications and the session layer Application Layer: Controls interactions between the end user and the underlying system through computer programs. The matter-net and internet overlap because the internet can be used to send information that will direct hardware on where to send the matter stream, and to transfer fabrication instructions to the 3D Printer. In other words, the matter-net uses the internet to do its job.
Working With Voxels (3nk) The first step to creating the matter-net is to develop the physical systems for creating, manipulating, and streaming “3nk” particles, also known as “voxels”. Unlike the internet, which uses naturally occuring electrical charges, matter-net particles are man-made. Therefore before we can create a network to stream voxels, we need to develop processes for creating and manipulating them.
I) Creating Voxels (3nk)
Extraction: Collecting bulk material in its raw aggregate form Disintegration: Grinding raw bulk material into crude nano-scale particles. Digitization: Converting crude nano-scale particles into refined nano-scale particles that can be used as 3nk. II) Manipulating Voxels (3nk)
Storage: Voxels will often need to be kept for an extended period of time before they are used; similar to the hard-drive in a computer. Transport: Voxels need to be moved between processing, storage, and printing; similar to the data bus and cables in a computer. Activation: Voxels should be chemically neutral for safety reasons, but when necessary they can be processed into chemically active agents. Once we know how to create and manipulate voxels, then we can work on developing systems for transporting them across large geographic distances. Such a system would work much like the internet, but instead of transmitting “bits” of information, we will be sending “bits” of matter. This matter needs to be suspended in some sort of fluid, and then pumped at high-speed with precision through a microscopic channel.
As the particles move through the channel, they need be kept in their proper order. They also need to tracked and routed to their appropriate destinations. The system needs to know where each set of particles is at at all times as it travels from the source to its destination. Because information flows much faster than matter, the internet can be used for this purpose.
III) Streaming Voxels (3nk)
Grouping: Voxels need to be organized into orderly strings that can be maintained over the course of transport. Dividing: Voxel groups sometimes need to be broken up to improve transport efficicncy. Propelling: Voxels need an outside force to move them along the channel without affecting their order Holding: Voxels need to be held in a channel without affecting their order. Inserting: Voxels need to be injected into a matter stream without disturbing order. Extracting: Voxels need to be removed from a matter stream without disturbing order. IV) Managing The Voxel (3nk) Stream
Vox-Modem: Connects a voxel device to the maatter-net; transmits and receives internet messages for routing purposes. Similar to a computer modem Vox-Router: Acts as a switching station along the matter-net; manipulates the matter-stream to improve the efficiency of the tranfer. Like a computer router.3) Vox-Pump: Mantains consistent fluid pressure within the system to keep the matter-stream moving steadily. Similar to a repeater. Vox-Captor: Removes matter from the stream and holds it for resending, return, recycling, or disposal if the connection between two voxel devices is disrupted. In data-streams, losing a packet is no big deal because electron charges are super cheap. A new data packet can be created and sent without much additional cost. However, matter-streams are different because some forms of matter are rare and expensive.
For example, it would be unacceptable for a stream of gold or platinum nano-paarticles to get lost in transit. Also, it would pose a security risk for nuclear materials to be routed to the wrong destination.
Most of the time the cost of lost particles would be minimal…because the amount of material is so small…but in cases like these, a failure could be very expensive. Therefore strict protocols must be put in place to identify and handle lost voxels in an appropriate manner.
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World’s First 3D printing photo booth to open in Japan November 13, 2012 omote3D-photobooth-6
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The world’s first “3D printing photo booth” is set to open for a limited time at the exhibition space EYE OF GYRE in Harajuku, Japan, Spoon & Tamago reports.
From November 24 to January 14, 2013, people with reservations can go and have their portraits taken. Except, instead of a photograph, you’ll receive miniature replicas of yourselves.
Reservations can be madke via the website.
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NewsA 3D printer to turn waste plastic into composting toilets, rainwater harvesting systems.
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A University of Washington team claimed a $100,000 prize in the first 3D4D Challenge, an international contest to use 3-D printing for social benefit in the developing world.
The three undergraduates won to form a company that will work with partners in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Matthew Rogge, a mechanical engineering grad student, proposed to use giant 3-D printers to create composting latrines that are lightweight and use less energy to manufacture than concrete toilets.
The machine would also make rainwater catchment components that are specifically designed to fit to rain barrels, unlike current systems where joining available plumbing parts cause leaks and frequent failures.
Judges also were impressed by research the students conducted to prove their concept. In July the students printed a boat from more than 250 milk jugs and then entered it in a Seattle race. That proved they could create objects from recycled plastic and was a test run for their custom-built giant printer, also built from salvaged parts.
“With small-scale printers, the extruders can clog easily,” said Brandon Bowman, who also attended the competition. The huge printer that the students built, named “Big Red,” can not only create larger objects, but it also allows them to print with materials that are not perfectly clean.
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Post by ModE98 on Nov 27, 2012 13:54:43 GMT -5
In time, with this and other modern tech to come, over 90% of needed labor will disappear. Humans will become idle and useless... too bad, so sad. The only good thing, is this will all take time and I'll "be outa here."
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Post by uncle23 on Dec 1, 2012 13:12:44 GMT -5
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4:46 PM Staples (SPLS) is launching a 3D printing service that will allow customers to print objects by uploading the necessary files to its office centers. Staples' offerings are the first of their kind from a major retailer, and could heighten consumer/business awareness of a budding market. Staples will be relying on a new printer from Ireland's Mcor Technologies, which competes with U.S.-based 3D Systems (DDD) and Stratasys (SSYS). (Read the comments on this)
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Post by Trongersoll on Dec 4, 2012 14:25:57 GMT -5
In one way, SciFi writers can be seen as futurists. Much of the SciFi written today sees a world where you will have your own 3D printer/fabricator and when you want to buy something, the design will be sent to your machine and created on the spot. Obviously the world isn't there yet, but it isn't a great leap to get there.
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Next year’s 3D printers December 5, 2012 Objet1000_Cart_RacingCar-h-res-1
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The 3-D printing industry is on track to be a $3.1 billion business by 2016 and the innovations on display this week at Euromold, a manufacturing trade show, show its foundation is growing — both in revenue and in physical print size, Wired News reports.
Objet 1000
The big news out of Euromold is the new Objet 1000 3-D printer, named for its 1000 x 800 x 500 mm (39.3 x 31.4 x 19.6 inches) — more than three times the size of competitive printers.
Instead of being limited to printing small components like a bike helmet or pedal, engineers can now print an entire bike frame in one shot.
VoxelJet
VoxelJet makes a line of machines that print sand. Voxeljet software takes 3-D models and inverts them to create empty voids along with channels for funneling in molten metal. The printed sand molds are delivered to foundries where they are filled with liquid aluminum, bronze, or other metals. After the metal has cooled, the 3-D printed mold is smashed with hammers, revealing a metal version of the designer’s original CAD model.
MCOR Technologies
MCOR 3-D printers use paper instead of plastic to make models. Their machines glue sheets of standard 20 lb. bond paper together while a knife cuts the cross section for the 3-D model. The machine repeats the process thousands of times until a solid paper model is removed from the build chamber. This week, they also announced the new MCOR Iris, which adds color printing to the specs, giving designers access to millions of colors via inkjet printheads.
Concept Laser
Concept Laser produces high-quality parts by melting metal powders using high-powered lasers. Their systems can process precious metals to create jewelry, or high-performance titanium to create turbine components for jet engines, including medical-grade products out of stainless steel and pure titanium.
Geomagic
Geomagic Spark allows engineers to capture 3-D data with a scanner, and convert it into parametric data that can be modeled, expanded, and refined. Tools like this would be ideal for engineers who need to quickly fix a complex piece of machinery, without requiring them to remodel every feature of a complicated part.
3D Systems
3D Systems announced a pair of new high-resolution printers (16 micron layer thickness), the ProJet 3500 HDMax (plastic) & CPXMax (wax), with larger format print areas (298 x 185 x 203 mm / 11.75 x 7.3 x 8 inches), and tablet apps to control and monitor the print jobs. They also announced a new offering as part of their desktop Cubify system, called FreshFiber sculpture cases. Customers choose a phone model, color, and an photograph, and their web-based software converts them into a 3-D model which can be printed and shipped.
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Post by uncle23 on Dec 23, 2012 21:29:14 GMT -5
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3D Printed Record That Plays Music!
3D Printed Record That Plays Music! By Sam Green on 23 Dec 2012 11:13 am
This story has become an instant viral success. Amanda Ghassaei, assistant tech editor at Instructables has, for the first time ever, 3D printed an (almost) perfect replica of a 12-inch vinyl record. Created on the Objet Connex500 for it’s exceptional detail resolution, the record comes out of the printer with functioning audio-laden grooves that can ...
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Post by Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger on Dec 23, 2012 22:51:40 GMT -5
Looks like the end of the road for manufacturing or fabrication jobs on a massive scale. As these 3D printers are perfected and come into common usage around the country and world there will be absolutely no need for anywhere near the number of workers that are needed now to manufacture and assemble products. Really dont care and am not bitching, just pointing out the reality of the future. You can't be serious Mr. Z? You can't honestly see the majority of people building their own cars, appliances, tvs, tablets, boats, ski doo's, airplanes, food processing equipment, ect, ect, ect on their own can you? What this is going to do, aside from fill a niche with savvy backyard mechanics, is make American Manufacturing MORE attractive and help make it so we all service our own economies. And yes bad people will find ways to use it for evil purposes, as always. Not to be a dick, but I'm sure happy the future isn't' going to look like what some of you old guys think it will. Great thread uncle, Merry Christmas and happy new year to all.
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Post by NotSoFair on Dec 31, 2012 14:38:09 GMT -5
Has anyone invested in these companies yet? I am interested. Which one do you recommend?
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Post by uncle23 on Jan 6, 2013 19:23:55 GMT -5
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I own less than a hundred shares of DDD..@ 41.00..........But this is not a recommendation............I started the thread because I find the technology very interesting.
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Post by uncle23 on Jan 10, 2013 11:51:51 GMT -5
ROCK HILL, S.C., Jan. 10, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 3D Systems(DDD) announced today the immediate availability of two powerful tools for artists, modelers and app developers to easily bring their designs to life with 3D Printing: AppCreate and Cubify API. AppCreate, a simple to use web-based tool, empowers artists and modelers to make their designs instantly customizable as an App on Cubify.com, the ultimate 3D consumer destination. Cubify API, enables programmers to generate revenue from their own apps using the Cubify platform for e-commerce and fulfillment. Concurrently, the company announced that its Cubify platform is now available for hosting, publishing and production of 3D printable apps and content by major brands and individual designers.
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Organovo partners with Autodesk research to develop 3D bioprinting software January 10, 2013 Organovo_NovoGen_MMX_bioprinter
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Organovo Holdings, Inc., a creator and manufacturer of functional, 3D human tissues for medical research and therapeutic applications, is working together with researchers at Autodesk, Inc., the leader in cloud-based design and engineering software, to create the first 3D design software for bioprinting.
The software, which will be used to control Organovo’s NovoGen MMX bioprinter, will represent a major step forward in usability and functionality for designing three-dimensional human tissues, and has the potential to open up bioprinting to a broader group of users, Oraganovo says.
“Autodesk is an excellent partner for Organovo in developing new software for 3D bioprinters,” said Keith Murphy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Organovo. “This relationship will lead to advances in bioprinting, including both greater flexibility and throughput internally, and the potential long-term ability for customers to design their own 3D tissues for production by Organovo.”
“Bioprinting has the potential to change the world,” said Jeff Kowalski, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Autodesk. “It’s a blend of engineering, biology and 3D printing, which makes it a natural for Autodesk. I think working with Organovo to explore and evolve this emerging field will yield some fascinating and radical advances in medical research.”
Organovo’s 3D bioprinting technology is used to create living human tissues that are three-dimensional, architecturally correct, and made entirely of living human cells. The resulting structures can function like native human tissues, and represent an opportunity for advancement in medical research, drug discovery and development, and in the future, surgical therapies and transplantation.
The Autodesk Research group is dedicated to innovation and discovery ranging from methods to help users learn powerful digital prototyping tools to visualization and simulation techniques that enable designers to achieve new levels of performance. The bio/nano/programmable matter group within Autodesk Research is extending this expertise by developing software for the design and simulation of molecular systems and living systems.
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..... copy Print your own life-size robot for under $1,000 January 28, 2013 InMoov robot (credit: Gael Langevin) Gael Langevin, a French sculptor and model-maker, has created a life-size, 3D-printed robot.called InMoov, CNN reports. Langevin’s animatronic creation can be made by anyone with access to little more than a basic 3D printer, a few motors, a cheap circuit board, and about $800. A work in progress, the robot boasts a head, arms, and hands — the torso is not far off. On <nobr>completion</nobr> of each body part, Langevin shares <nobr>the printer</nobr> files and assembly instructions on his dedicated blog and on Thingiverse — a open-source, digital design file-sharing site. “I’ve also posted some programming instructions — so you can make it respond to voice-activated commands,” he says. “It can grab hold of things, tilt its head, and move its arms around in various ways … and when I get around to building some legs, that’s when things will get really interesting.”
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Post by uncle23 on Jan 28, 2013 20:35:49 GMT -5
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If I can program one , the first thing I would do is make one to shovel the snow off my driveway...
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Post by The Virginian on Jan 29, 2013 8:42:49 GMT -5
Why not just go for the snowblower?
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Post by uncle23 on Jan 29, 2013 12:00:38 GMT -5
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at my age, pushing a snowblower is dangerous....i'll hire the guy whose job was replaced buy my robot to do my grocery shopping....
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........... copy Wearable 3D Printed Dress at Paris Fashion Week – Iris van Herpen ShowWeek – Iris van Herpen Show By Sam Green on 23 Jan 2013 10:14 am On Monday we experienced another first for multi-material 3D printing. For the first time ever, a multi-material 3D printed cape and skirt were featured on the Paris catwalk. Dutch designer van Herpen’s eleven-piece collection featured two 3D printed ensembles, including an elaborate skirt and cape created in collaboration with artist, architect, designer and professor Neri Oxman from
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Post by ModE98 on Feb 6, 2013 16:01:07 GMT -5
Good grief, next they will be able to print out a man's dream girl. Wives will have a really pay attention to what's going on down in the "man cave".
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Post by uncle23 on Feb 8, 2013 11:22:59 GMT -5
..... 11:00 AM 3D printer maker ExOne ( XONE) has turned in a strong IPO. After pricing its 5.3M-share offering at $18, shares opened at $23.93 and have since risen to $25.94, good for a 44% gain. That gives the company a market cap of $332M. ExOne, which is focused on industrial 3D printer buyers, had revenue of just $15.9M (+26% Y/Y) in the 9 months ending Sep. 30, and a net loss of $11.1M. Rivals 3D Systems ( DDD
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Post by uncle23 on Feb 13, 2013 11:38:22 GMT -5
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Post by uncle23 on Feb 13, 2013 13:14:44 GMT -5
....... NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - 3D printing stocks got a boost Wednesday morning after President Obama talked about the sector in his State of the Union late Tuesday. ExOne Co.(XONE) shares were up more than 6%, 3D Systems Corp.(DDD) shares were up more than 3% and Stratasys Ltd.(SSYS) shares were up 2% in early trading. President Obama talked about increased manufacturing around the country and the first innovation institute in Youngstown, Ohio. "A once-shuttered warehouse is now a state-of-the art lab where new workers are mastering the 3D printing that has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything," said the President.
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Post by uncle23 on Feb 15, 2013 13:53:01 GMT -5
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Post by Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger on Feb 20, 2013 22:27:23 GMT -5
Hey uncle. I was reading my news and I came across this. I know you have skin in the game my friend and this is more than just copy write issue. 3D printing is awesome and is going to change the face of manufacturing in the way Henry Ford did I'm sure. However, as far as it being an actual consumer electronics product on a scale to replace toys, ect, ect. We could, could be looking at 10-15 years. Happy investing sir! How Big Business is Stymying Makers’ High-Res, Colorful Innovations www.wired.com/design/2013/02/3-d-printing-patents/?pid=1994&viewall=true
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Post by uncle23 on Feb 23, 2013 19:55:02 GMT -5
.... thanks Aham...10 to 15 years is not too long even for an old man like me.... ...the year 2000 seems just like yesterday and that's 13 yrs ago.........
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Post by uncle23 on Feb 23, 2013 21:28:04 GMT -5
..... copied from @kurzweil NEWSLETTER 3D-printed ears that look and act like the real thing February 22, 2013 [+]Digitization process for human ears. The anatomy of a 5 year-old female was scanned (A, D), processed to remove noise (B, E), and digitally sculpted to obtain the appropriate curvature for the anterior portion of the ear (C, F). Sagittal (A–C) and worm’s-eye (D–F) views. (Credit: Alyssa J. Reiffel/PLOS ONE) Cornell bioengineers and Weill Cornell Medical College physicians have created an artificial ear that looks and acts like a natural ear, giving new hope to thousands of children born with a congenital deformity called microtia. They used 3-D printing and injectable gels made of living cells to fashion ears that are practically identical to a human ear. Over a three-month period, these flexible ears grew cartilage to replace the <nobr>collagen</nobr> used to mold them [+]A 3-D printer in Weill Hall deposits cells encapsulated in a hydrogel that will develop into new ear tissue. <nobr>The printer</nobr> takes instructions from a file built from 3-D photographs of human ears taken with a scanner. (Credit: Lindsay France/University Photography) The novel ear may be the solution reconstructive surgeons have long wished for to help children born with ear deformity, said co-lead author Dr. Jason Spector, director of the Laboratory for Bioregenerative <nobr>Medicine and Surgery and</nobr> associate professor of plastic surgery at Weill Cornell. “A bioengineered ear replacement like this would also help individuals who have lost part or all of their external ear in an accident or from cancer,” he said. Replacement ears are usually constructed with materials that have a Styrofoam-like consistency, or sometimes, surgeons build ears from a patient’s harvested rib. This option is challenging and painful for children, and the ears rarely look completely natural or perform well, Spector said.
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