3-D Printers

igotid88

http://www.cnet.com/news/make-3d-printed-death-star-speaker-cases/

igotid88

https://facebook.com/video.php?v=827778657294986&pnref=story

Pap

igotid88 wrote: »

https://facebook.com/video.php?v=827778657294986&pnref=story

Great video! :-bd 3D technology on the rescue! Thanks for sharing!

igotid88

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/us/cody-wilson-who-posted-gun-instructions-online-sues-state-department.html?smid=fb-share

PJ_Soul

3-D printers are fucking insane. I can't believe they're possible!! I am really looking forward to seeing what happens with this technology. Will they end up in every household? If so, we've basically got replicators for non-organic items. That's fucking nuts...... How long before we have food replicators?
Anyone notice that everything that was invented for Star Trek: The Next Generation is actually becoming a reality?! They are even making early advances in teleportation now! And tricorders are also kind of a real thing now! Is this phenomenon the scientific world copying ideas from Start Trek: TNG, or was Roddenberry just really tapped into what scientists thought might eventually be possible??

Remember when video phones seemed insanely futuristic?? And self driving cars? Crazy man.

igotid88

PJ_Soul said:

3-D printers are fucking insane. I can't believe they're possible!! I am really looking forward to seeing what happens with this technology. Will they end up in every household? If so, we've basically got replicators for non-organic items. That's fucking nuts...... How long before we have food replicators?
Anyone notice that everything that was invented for Star Trek: The Next Generation is actually becoming a reality?! They are even making early advances in teleportation now! And tricorders are also kind of a real thing now! Is this phenomenon the scientific world copying ideas from Start Trek: TNG, or was Roddenberry just really tapped into what scientists thought might eventually be possible??

Remember when video phones seemed insanely futuristic?? And self driving cars? Crazy man.

the closest I've seen to a food printer was the candy one

Pap

PJ_Soul said:

Is this phenomenon the scientific world copying ideas from Start Trek: TNG, or was Roddenberry just really tapped into what scientists thought might eventually be possible??

Same thing has happened with some of the James Bond's gadgets. Usually, all the amazing inventions that you see in the movies are not just in the director's imagination. Actually they are work in progress of some of the biggest scientific laboratories around the world, right at the time of production.

PJ_Soul

Pap said:

PJ_Soul said:

Is this phenomenon the scientific world copying ideas from Start Trek: TNG, or was Roddenberry just really tapped into what scientists thought might eventually be possible??

Same thing has happened with some of the James Bond's gadgets. Usually, all the amazing inventions that you see in the movies are not just in the director's imagination. Actually they are work in progress of some of the biggest scientific laboratories around the world, right at the time of production.

Fair enough, but teleportation and tricorders and replicators weren't even being attempted back in 1988 when Star Trek: TNG debuted, and especially not in the 60s, when the original Roddenberry came up with the idea of teleportation, were they?? Star Trek: TNG was cancelled back in 1995 or something like that. Definitely no 3D printing happening back then. The internet was only just coming into being then!

igotid88

http://m.mic.com/articles/117786/watch-a-visually-impaired-woman-meet-her-unborn-son-with-a-3-d-printed-ultrasound

Pap

igotid88 said:

http://m.mic.com/articles/117786/watch-a-visually-impaired-woman-meet-her-unborn-son-with-a-3-d-printed-ultrasound

Technology in the service of mankind! Great!

oftenreading

PJ_Soul said:

Pap said:

PJ_Soul said:

Is this phenomenon the scientific world copying ideas from Start Trek: TNG, or was Roddenberry just really tapped into what scientists thought might eventually be possible??

Same thing has happened with some of the James Bond's gadgets. Usually, all the amazing inventions that you see in the movies are not just in the director's imagination. Actually they are work in progress of some of the biggest scientific laboratories around the world, right at the time of production.

Fair enough, but teleportation and tricorders and replicators weren't even being attempted back in 1988 when Star Trek: TNG debuted, and especially not in the 60s, when the original Roddenberry came up with the idea of teleportation, were they?? Star Trek: TNG was cancelled back in 1995 or something like that. Definitely no 3D printing happening back then. The internet was only just coming into being then!

I believe it's more that that SF authors tap into what humans have wanted and speculated about for decades, or centuries. In some cases the science eventually catches up.

Pap

Pap said:

Same thing has happened with some of the James Bond's gadgets. Usually, all the amazing inventions that you see in the movies are not just in the director's imagination. Actually they are work in progress of some of the biggest scientific laboratories around the world, right at the time of production.

Jetpacking like Iron Man over Dubai

igotid88

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3047350/this-robot-can-3-d-print-a-steel-bridge-in-mid-air#17

Pap

igotid88 said:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3047350/this-robot-can-3-d-print-a-steel-bridge-in-mid-air#17

That's a lush!

igotid88

http://mashable.com/2015/06/24/3d-printed-robotic/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link

Pap

oftenreading said:

PJ_Soul said:

Pap said:

PJ_Soul said:

Is this phenomenon the scientific world copying ideas from Start Trek: TNG, or was Roddenberry just really tapped into what scientists thought might eventually be possible??

Same thing has happened with some of the James Bond's gadgets. Usually, all the amazing inventions that you see in the movies are not just in the director's imagination. Actually they are work in progress of some of the biggest scientific laboratories around the world, right at the time of production.

Fair enough, but teleportation and tricorders and replicators weren't even being attempted back in 1988 when Star Trek: TNG debuted, and especially not in the 60s, when the original Roddenberry came up with the idea of teleportation, were they?? Star Trek: TNG was cancelled back in 1995 or something like that. Definitely no 3D printing happening back then. The internet was only just coming into being then!

I believe it's more that that SF authors tap into what humans have wanted and speculated about for decades, or centuries. In some cases the science eventually catches up.

Science fiction as fact: how desires drive discoveries

igotid88

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt0CiUDVPHk

Pap

^ Wow!

igotid88

https://www.yahoo.com/katiecouric/now-i-get-it-3d-printing-3d-printers-today-3d-129869888178.html

Pap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aThCr0PsyuA