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[wierd]

Okay, this one's actually useful outside of niches.

Next-level 3D printing: Terminator Style

So using UV light, oxygen, and a pool of liquid resin, it's possible to shape much more complex shapes in an order of magnitude less time.

W-wait, isn't this how 3D printers work already‽

Conventional 3d printers deposit layers of material onto the object. This draws them out in a continuous stream by curing the resin.

3D resin based approaches using UV laser predate binder+powder, and extrusion tech by at least a decade.  Binder + cut paper is older still.

Each tech has downsides and upsides. Powder+binder is cheap, and the powder provides support during the build process, (something that UV cured additive resin cant do. scaffolds have to be printed at the same time as the prototype in order to support the prototype as it is built.) but the resulting prototypes are very fragile. Paper+binder is cheap, but slow, and not all that accurate. (combination of 2D cnc vinyl cutter tech, with a table with Z axis drop, a glue spreader, and a big roll of paper that provides the layer. It is prone to warping and getting bubbles between layers.)

This tech sounds like an incremental upgrade to cured resin 3D printing. Not much more.

The "Molecular assembler" 3D printer that hit the news recently, which is able to assemble objects using chemical processes, and can produce complex chemical compounds, is far more novel and would have far more interesting applications.

[redwallzyl]

medical science works right?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/03/19/394028643/botched-ritual-circumcision-leads-to-worlds-first-penile-transplant

[XXXXYYYY]

medical science works right?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/03/19/394028643/botched-ritual-circumcision-leads-to-worlds-first-penile-transplant

1) Ouch ouchouchouchouch ouch.
2) That's actually pretty cool.

[hops]

wat

[Il Palazzo]

What it means, and you didn't know, is that there exists, and has existed for as long as circumcision, a population of males that are the subject of this comic:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

They can be saved now.

[ChairmanPoo]

medical science works right?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/03/19/394028643/botched-ritual-circumcision-leads-to-worlds-first-penile-transplant

FOR SCIENCE

[Lagslayer]

I move that Weird Science become the thread theme song.

[Descan]

Now all we need to do is make penises from the patients own cells c:

[hops]

But then we'd fall down the slippery slope and create Penis-golems.

[ChairmanPoo]

Now all we need to do is make penises from the patients own cells c:

You were saying..?



On the above link: it's too bad that Atala's company went bankrupt due to a VC hiccup. On the bright side, some of it's more interesting projects were picked up by Celgene.

[KingofstarrySkies]

But then we'd fall down the slippery slope and create Penis-golems.

Abooooout that...

"I WILL FUCK YOU IN SO MANY WAYS"
Be right back.

[wierd]

........

Oglaf.com already covered this...

Spoiler: oglaf.com is adult content (click to show/hide)

 

You have been warned.
oglaf.com/buttocks/

[Tylui]

*sigh*

[i2amroy]

Recently found this site about how to easily visualize 4D objects. It's by far the most helpful site on the topic that I've found so far, so I figured I'd post it here for your entertainment.

Site (The other sections below the visualization one cover more specific 4D shapes as opposed to just how to read the projections).

[Angle]

*Brain Explodes*