02-26-2013, 12:20 PM
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| Researchers Unveil World's First 4-D Printer
Researchers Unveil World's First 4-D Printer | Popular Science Quote:
The process is sort of reminiscent of those toy dinosaurs that expand when you drop them in water. First, the printer creates a long string of materials. Then you put the string in water. At that point, the string of materials can fold into various shapes based on how the materials are placed.
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We're a long way from a building making itself, but it's a fun thought: laying down a skyscraper and watching it bend toward the sky like that scene in Inception.
| That would be pretty wild to see, but I'm think the potential applications of this are pretty limited.
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