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'Gadget printer' promises industrial revolution

By Duncan Graham-Rowe

Started by Althalus , Jan 09 2003 03:00 PM

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#1 Althalus

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Posted 09 January 2003 - 03:00 PM

The idea of printing a light bulb may seem bizarre, but US engineers are now developing an ink-jet printing technology to do just that. The research at the University of California in Berkeley will allow fully assembled electric and electronic gadgets to be printed in one go.

The idea was revealed at a December workshop on robotic algorithms in Nice. Instead of creating a casing and then laboriously filling it with electronic circuit boards, components and switches, the plan is to print a complete and fully assembled device.

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Posted 09 January 2003 - 06:25 PM

              That sounds so fantastic and futuristic!


             Computer....a cup of Earl Grey.....hot.

"Science may have found a cure for most evils;  but it has
         found no remedy for the worst of them all --- the apathy of human beings."
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