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Bike Produced On A Printer

Posted March 25, 2011 10:41 AM

From Neatorama:

Believe it or not the lightweight bicycle pictured above was printed out on a computer. Designed by scientists in Bristol, England, it is created by building up layers of nylon powder through a process known as Additive Layer Manufacturing. The computer-aided design is sent to a printer filled with the powdered material.

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Re: Bike Produced On A Printer

03/25/2011 12:12 PM

Way cool.

And I'd rather have one of those than a presidency produced using a teleprompter. (Heh.)

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