Dispensary Corner 23 Mar 12
March 23, 2012
A VISION of the future.
People will soon be able to
“print” out their tools, according
to scientists at the Z Corporation,
in Massachusetts.
The Z Corporation specialises in
3D printers, which, according to
its scientists, can make tools with
moving parts.
The scientists demonstrated
their theory for a National
Geographic program, by
scanning a wrench into a
computer, which then sent the
image to a 3D printer.
Using a “specially engineered
composite material” which
started off as powder but was
soon bound with resin like
material, the printer created a
fully working copy of the original
wrench in 90 minutes.
SERIOUS addiction.
One Belgian bus driver, Issac Fremont, took his love of coffee to all new heights, installing not one, but two coffee machines into the dash of his bus. Fremont’s stash was discovered after he was stopped during a routine check in Switzerland. The wired bus driver told police officers that the reason he had the coffee machines was that he didn’t like the coffee served up at service stations. Unfortunately for the coffee connoisseur, Swiss police said that his coffee machines, along with various other knick-knacks breached traffic rules. “The two coffee machines plus all the other stuff that he had mounted in front of the windscreen (pictured below) made it almost impossible to get a proper view of what he was seeing as he drove along,” said one officer. “It was a serious obstruction of his field of view,” the officer said.
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