Monday, July 18, 2011

Your moment of geek this Monday morning.

Seriously this is the COOLEST video you will see all day.

I promise.



What an amazing time to be alive.

28 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:55 AM

    Holy moly!

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  2. Unflipping believable!

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  3. angela3:26 AM

    That is incredible!

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  4. Anonymous3:57 AM

    That is phenomenal! Thanks for sharing!!

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  5. Anonymous4:02 AM

    That just blew me away. It's going to change mfg and a whole lot more.

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  6. ManxMamma4:19 AM

    Made in Massachusetts I believe (said proudly).

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  7. Anonymous4:20 AM

    I call BS--I can't believe my lying eyes. Now that is magic......fortunately, if we wait long enough to do the research, science can explain everything.

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  8. Anonymous5:35 AM

    My husband, kids, thought it was a hoax and so I checked it out and it is for real. The technology has been around for about 20 years now, just very, very expensive. Love brainyaks.

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  9. It's a Duplicator!!! That's from what, Star Trek? Jetsons?

    Whatever, it's very cool.

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  10. Anonymous5:47 AM

    If you go to the YouTube version it explained that the clip isn't exactly how it worked. There were more intermediate steps and the wrench broke. Either way, these are just the first steps and it is way cool technology. Give 'em 10 more years!

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  11. Pat in MA6:01 AM

    ManxMamma,you're right - company is in Burlington MA. An example of why the MA economy is doing a bit better than many other states - innovation technology, more highly skilled and educated work force. Proud to be a liberal east coast elitist :)

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  12. Anonymous6:17 AM

    I first learned of 3D printing from the RES 2010 convention in Las Vegas.

    Cherokee Data Solutions, a woman owned business is that advanced!

    Yay.

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  13. GhostbusterTX6:21 AM

    Andrew Sullivan's blog posted a discussion of the technology by someone who works with those machines here...

    http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/07/printing-a-wrench-ctd.html

    They are used for making plastic prototypes and models. There was also a link to a really fun animated short that my family has watched several times now:
    http://vimeo.com/12768578

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  14. Anonymous6:27 AM

    Wow. However, put palin's brain in there, and it will only print one dimension!

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  15. Anonymous6:53 AM

    I WANT ONE!!

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  16. Anonymous7:03 AM

    Amazing invention! It is a wonderful time to be alive.

    The only drawback I can see is people replicating their butts and mailing them to members of Congress.

    But other than that, this has great potential to help in medical research, criminal investigations, teaching complex theories, etc etc that may lead to even more advanced technology

    Geeks Rule!

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  17. I have to admit I was totally skeptical when I saw this so I went straight to Snopes.com where they have an amazing write-up about the 3-D printer and even a video rebuttal by the guy in the original video, who addresses some of the skeptics questions.

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  18. Beldar Nostradamos Conehead8:04 AM

    theres no reason why this wont someday be a consumer home manufacturing system to make recyclable items whose digital plans are downloaded o'er da Net.

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  19. Chenagrrl8:25 AM

    OMG, my geek is overstimulated. Wow! Thanks for sharing. Wish my Dad were alive to see this. He would call it "Buck Rogers!"

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  20. Anonymous9:05 AM

    Holy cow. The possibliities of using this for organ transplants in the future boggles the mind.

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  21. Anonymous9:13 AM

    Here's a link to The Colbert Report that shows the machine printing Colbert's head:

    http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/388966/june-08-2011/bre-pettis

    Both these videos are Amazing!

    (Oh, want to add--I'm a proud Bay Stater too!!!!)

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  22. Anonymous9:21 AM

    Great invention for the prolifers.

    They can copy all the fetuses they want to their heart's desire. And maybe [finally] leave real women alone to decide on their own reproductive matters.

    --GypsyGirl

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  23. Anonymous9:42 AM

    We live on a mountain (~4000 foot to summit) and in April of 2008 my engineering son sent us a 3D "ceramic" version of it made on this type of machine.

    You can locate spots on it just as on a map. His friend was just starting use of this dynamic and we were the recipients of the magical product produced.

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  24. Anonymous10:32 AM

    In January (or maybe February—this was a while back) of 1971, my company was exhibiting at "Decision Making in Mineral Exploration" here in Vancouver BC. One of the other booths was showing what was effectively a 2.5-D printer. Given a digital terrain model, it would carve a physical terrain model out of polystyrene.

    BTW, you can see xkcd's take on the current printer at http://xkcd.com/924/

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  25. Anonymous10:35 AM

    The video purposely misleads. The moving parts can't be scanned as shown. The person doing the demonstration explains that.

    quote: # It is also correct that our ZScanner cannot scan the internal details of the wrench. It is a laser based scanner that can only capture surface information within line of sight. Details like the ends of the worm screw in the wrench are created digitally between scanning and printing as one of the edits mentioned above. The scanner captures everything that can be seen and then someone using editing software adds the details that are hidden. (Alternatively, one could separate the pieces and scan them separately.)

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  26. Anonymous12:30 PM

    OMG! That is out of this world amazing. Yes, it's great to be alive now.
    ~physicsmom

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  27. Thanks for that link, Ghostbuster. Did you look at any of his other videos?
    Some of them are pure genius.
    http://vimeo.com/12768578

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  28. emrysa7:05 AM

    pretty amazing! replicator prototype. in 100 years they'll be laughing at this thing comparing it to the 8-track.

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