More to the point, can you make it from expired whole blood?

First thing you need to know about synthetic biology:

Anything you can make in a higher life form, you can mass produce in a beer-brewing kit, with enough man-hours engineering the yeast. If this works, it'll be ten years until a recombinant form is available from some biotech firm; most of that will be spent in the approval process because slicing out a gene and slapping it in a plasmid is something they teach undergraduates to do these days in "Intro to Biotech".

Bend over...

Remember: Sales taxes are regressive

You assume EVs will be expensive forever. And that fuel costs won't rise, making EVs seem cheap even at current prices.

These are assumptions, and are not guaranteed.

You know, I could totally have Shapeways print me a silicone enclosure for an 18650-powered cellphone charger that doubles as a vibrating buttplug

I could probably kickstart the thing and keep myself in beer money for the next few years, even if it didn't lead to a long-term profitable sex-toy business.

Why the bleeding hell does Netflix not yet have Iron Man for streaming?

Not Avengers 2, not Iron Man 3, the first one from 2008.

And this is why IMR and LiFePO4 are displacing LiCo chemistries - the oxygen is better contained. LiCo batteries evolve oxygen gas when heated, making their failure spectacular, violent, and when packed in metal cans, very nearly a detonation. LiNiCo offers some advantage in stability, without sacrificing the energy density that keeps people using LiCo. IMR (lithium manganese spinel) is very stable, requiring an external heat source or abuse like short-circuiting to fail spectacularly. They can also deliver more current, since LiCo is limited by how fast you can draw them down without making them likely to blow up by forming metallic lithium inside the cell. LiFePO4 store less energy still, but can deliver thick chewy amps because of its stability.

As I understand it, no electric cars use the old LiCo chemistry, or we'd have seen a far more exciting fire in this Tesla.

Your microwave oven will probably become much more mass-efficient and somewhat more energy-efficient.

It might enable radars of similar size, cheap enough to mount in every air vent in your house and able to direct the chilled air at people; combined with similarly miniaturized heat sensors, you'll find yourself cooling off or warming up much more quickly after coming inside.

Aside from the relative difficulty shielding yourself from an electron beam with smoke. And the fact that electron beams won't blind everyone on the city block when the first trigger is pulled. And the fact that electron beams of sufficient charge look like lightning bolts

It's probably cheaper than any other method of managing their condition like amputation, disability payments, and nursing homes.

Keeping diabetes from going from the "cheap to manage" to "terribly expensive" stage is probably, like most other healthcare things, a net savings once you get to even the medium term.

That's why he's wearing the entry suit and the laser lenses.

I suggest "carbine" - most rifles tend to be rather longer than this system's beam director.

They've already started.

I'd be willing to drop $50-200 on such a device. Once. After that, it had better last ten years.