RFCOMMSYS wrote:
Fascinating!

'Gadget printer' promises industrial revolution

The 3D gadget printer

The idea of printing a light bulb may seem bizarre, but US engineers are now
developing an ink-jet printing technology to do just that. The research at the
University of California in Berkeley will allow fully assembled electric and
electronic gadgets to be printed in one go. .......

More he

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3238

http://www.newscientist.com/data/ima...99993238F1.JPG



Neat stuff.

It's reminiscent of the 3D modeling system using laser. You design the
part on the computer, then a laser makes a 3D image of the object
inside a container. Some sort of compound is sprayed into the
container and it hardens where there is laser light.

The solid model can then be used for making molds or patterns.


There's more to it than that, but that is the general idea. Not quite
teleportation, but still pretty interesting.





mike





mike