I don't see home depot as servicing the target market for these products. On a story I heard this morning, it seems like people think they can go home and print gaskets or a screw...
Actually, at the Home Depot 3D printer demo they are handing out a sample nut and bolt (with finger nubs to tighten them, not hex heads.)
I'm not sure I'd use them to bolt my house together, but them seem fairly sturdy.
Hmm, My immediate thought actually is that there's a fucking huge overlap. Print your own cornicing for your house... Print your own bath plugs...
True...
I actually wandered into the demo at the HD near me.
The rest of my shopping as I wandered through the store, every time I saw some plastic part, I was thinking, "I could print THAT, and THAT, and part of THAT..."
Time to patten the laptop keyboard password protector
Or just go with a fingerprint reader.
... I don't see anything "novel" or even better than what we have had already. Maybe if fits a niche I'm not aware of or care much about.
I think the advantage here is that this could be used be someone freestanding in a VR space.
The 3Dconnexion type devices (and I use one) is, like a mouse or keyboard, for someone with a desk surface in front of them.
about 600 tons of fireworks on New Years, the weight of about 5 adult blue whales
Thanks for a new unit of measurement: adult blue whales of fireworks. Comparing fireworks to adult blue whales really helps make your number something I can relate to in my everyday life.
Good point.
Think of 600 tons as 27.3 Viking Longboats, each boat loaded with 160 Aardvarks.
You use your phone to make calls? When were you born grampa, the 20th century?
That does it. I'm slamming down the receiver on you.
...as long as that guy is in the pit playing the theater organ live while the movie plays, it'll be fine.
There's no way a 'recorded' music & sound effects score playing along with the movie could ever sound as good.
Instead of being like a giant battery to power the city, instead it is a evil giant CAPACITOR?
...or if we build it and a sexually ambiguous Jaye Davidson shows up?
Well, that went South quickly.
It can't just be a small overclock, you need to turn that bastard all the way up to 11.
On X-10, I can go all the way up to 16!
I'm afraid I do not know how she determined the sodium mass increase in the BEC, and I was not in her lab at that time.
She mentioned the mass increase in correspondence.
I just found it interesting because of E=mc^2 implications.
I am aware that, in the case of this article, the stated goal was to create matter; whereas at her lab, it was more of a byproduct.
What? How can you link a paper like that and completely not understand its contents?...
I was in communication wi. Dr. Hau in 2007, and she indicated that the sodium mass had indeed increased when the probe pulse was stopped.
Light was already turned into matter back in 2001 by Lene Hau at Harvard.
When the light pulse disappeared, the mass of the sodium increased.
I hope they are nice to us.
They will probably just be frustrated by us:
Marvin: "I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number."
Zem: "Er, five."
Marvin: "Wrong. You see?"
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