Mosquitoes' Bloodsucking Tubes Could Enable High-Definition 3D Printing
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Mosquitoes' Bloodsucking Tubes Could Enable High-Definition 3D Printing
Proboscis of Female Mosquitoes Can Print in Finer Detail Than Expensive and Fragile Commercial Tips
Mosquitoes' Bloodsucking Tubes Could Enable High-Definition 3D Printing
In a redeeming development for one of nature’s most universally denounced pests, researchers from McGill and Drexel Universities have discovered that mosquito stingers might one day be used for high-definition 3D bioprinting. Reported in the journal Science Advances, the findings demonstrated how the needle-like structure, called a proboscis, that mosquitoes use to extract blood, when repurposed as a tip for a 3D printer, can extrude lines finer than a human hair — surpassing commercially available 3D printing tips.
(drexel.edu)
@cstross how long until they start selectively breeding super-skeeters that somehow make it more lucrative for corps and VCs. . .
Seriously though, cool application of a repurposed source.
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Mosquitoes' Bloodsucking Tubes Could Enable High-Definition 3D Printing
Proboscis of Female Mosquitoes Can Print in Finer Detail Than Expensive and Fragile Commercial Tips
Mosquitoes' Bloodsucking Tubes Could Enable High-Definition 3D Printing
In a redeeming development for one of nature’s most universally denounced pests, researchers from McGill and Drexel Universities have discovered that mosquito stingers might one day be used for high-definition 3D bioprinting. Reported in the journal Science Advances, the findings demonstrated how the needle-like structure, called a proboscis, that mosquitoes use to extract blood, when repurposed as a tip for a 3D printer, can extrude lines finer than a human hair — surpassing commercially available 3D printing tips.
(drexel.edu)
@cstross Very neat!
Not sure about the name.
"3D necroprinting" is a bit on the nose. -
@cstross so the printer makers will create mosquito farms? To… reap their mouths and put them in machines?
The horror story (almost) writes itself.
@jguillaumes The sex industry entrepreneur who is first to market with a RealFlesh
Fleshlight is going to make a killing … -
Mosquitoes' Bloodsucking Tubes Could Enable High-Definition 3D Printing
Proboscis of Female Mosquitoes Can Print in Finer Detail Than Expensive and Fragile Commercial Tips
Mosquitoes' Bloodsucking Tubes Could Enable High-Definition 3D Printing
In a redeeming development for one of nature’s most universally denounced pests, researchers from McGill and Drexel Universities have discovered that mosquito stingers might one day be used for high-definition 3D bioprinting. Reported in the journal Science Advances, the findings demonstrated how the needle-like structure, called a proboscis, that mosquitoes use to extract blood, when repurposed as a tip for a 3D printer, can extrude lines finer than a human hair — surpassing commercially available 3D printing tips.
(drexel.edu)
@cstross Just integrate the entire mosquito into the machine. The Gigeresque Lynch hybrid horror of this is, in itself, is a kind of disturbing art form. I wonder if we're not subconsciously doing this as revenge. Either way, those two details will be big selling points. Call it a revenge printer.
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@cstross so the printer makers will create mosquito farms? To… reap their mouths and put them in machines?
The horror story (almost) writes itself.
@jguillaumes @cstross They have already turned entire spiders into robot grasping tools.
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@jguillaumes The sex industry entrepreneur who is first to market with a RealFlesh
Fleshlight is going to make a killing …@cstross @jguillaumes
Didn't some bloke write a novel with a plot point being 3d printers making things along that line?
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@cstross @jguillaumes
Didn't some bloke write a novel with a plot point being 3d printers making things along that line?@HighlandLawyer @jguillaumes You aren't wondering how the RealFlesh
in the RealFlesh Fleshlights is harvested, or who from? -
@HighlandLawyer @jguillaumes You aren't wondering how the RealFlesh
in the RealFlesh Fleshlights is harvested, or who from?@cstross @HighlandLawyer googled (or more precisely ‘ecosia-Ed’ it.
Yuck .
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@jguillaumes The sex industry entrepreneur who is first to market with a RealFlesh
Fleshlight is going to make a killing …@cstross @jguillaumes
I once read a story about that. -
@cstross so the printer makers will create mosquito farms? To… reap their mouths and put them in machines?
The horror story (almost) writes itself.
@jguillaumes @cstross I believe not even Lexx:The Dark Zone went there.
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