We've uncovered 10 patents that could severely stifle innovation in the low-cost segment of the 3-D printing market and keep you from making colorful, smooth-finished figures and precise, articulating parts. These patents cover core technologies and ease-of-use features, and could take momentum from the upstarts and return it to the entrenched companies.
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Plus more ants hating you.
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Get cool aluminum cast of said ant colony and the enmity of ants everywhere.
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I think I may have posted this before, but whatever.
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A certain mother habitually rewards her small son with ice cream after he eats his spinach. What additional information would you need to be able to predict whether the child will: a. Come to love or hate spinach, b. Love or hate ice cream, or c. Love or hate Mother?
— Gregory Bateson, "Steps to an Ecology of Mind"
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The Bahamas from the ISS by +Chris Hadfield.
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That's actually just a screenshot because a link to the page just gives you a boring looking text link.
Access the map here: Â http://www.contriving.net/link/ao
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High-Resolution Stereo Camera nadir and colour channel data taken during revolution 11497 on 13 January 2013 by ESA’s Mars Express have been combined to form a natural-colour view of the region southeast of Amenthes Planum and north of Hesperia Planum.  The region imaged, which lies to the west of Tinto Vallis and Palos crater, is centred at around 3°S and 109°E, and has a ground resolution of about 22 m per pixel. The image features craters, lava channels and a valley from which water may have once flowed. Dark wind-blown sediments fill the valleys and the floors of the craters.
-Wired
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