Re: [Phys-l] 3-d printer

["Marc \"Zeke\" Kossover" <zeke_kossover@yahoo.com>]

Shapeways <http://www.shapeways.com/> makes some beautiful products from 3D 
printing. They are super cool, and I have actually held them in my hand. 

Zeke Kossover


----- Original Message ----
> From: Marty Weiss <martweiss@COMCAST.NET>
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> Subject: [Phys-l] 3-d printer
>
> Hi all,
>     The latest "wow!" video making the rounds on the  internet recently is the 
> 3-d printer clip on YouTube and other internet vid  sources.  In case someone 
> hasn't seen it... a narrator takes us into a lab  where the "inventor" shows the 
> process whereby he takes a wrench, scans it in a  new type of scanner, puts the 
> printout into some sort of 3-d printer (after  coloring the adjusting mechanism 
> red) which contains some sort of  "resin"material and after a few minutes the 
> narrator reaches into the pool of  "resin" and out pops a copy of a real working 
> wrench with a red adjustment  gear.  The copy does the same job as the real 
> wrench.    
>
>
> The narrator is a "real person"... a PhD and astronaut (at least  according to 
> several articles I Googled), but the whole thing has to be an  elaborate hoax.  
> Either that or it's the biggest invention since the light  bulb.  If it is a 
> hoax, I have yet to see anyone write about it on any  discussion group, on 
> YouTube, or other news source.  Likewise, a real  invention such as this would 
> have been heralded throughout the scientific world  by now.   Anyone have any 
> explanation or comments?  
>
>
> Marty
>
>
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