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Meet Scotty: a 3D printer and scanner that “teleports” objects in a way that demolishes the original and reproduces an exact replica inside a 3D printer nearby. Created by a team of researchers at the Hasso Plattner Institute, the device first slices up an object as it’s scanned—ensuring that no one can reprint the work—and then sends an encrypted copy of the 3D file to a receiving printer.

Scotty gets its name after the fictional Star Trek character who manned a teleporter that operated on principles similar to the 3D scanner and printer combo. The current prototype combines a MakerBot Replicator 2X with a 3-axis milling machine, a camera, and a microcontroller for encryption, decryption, and transmission, and only works on single-material plastic objects.

In the future, researchers foresee the technology having two possible applications: Scotty could “help preserve the uniqueness and thus the emotional value of physical objects shared between friends” and “address some of the licensing issues involved in fast electronic delivery of physical goods.” Their next stop? Creating a high-definition version of Scotty, and continuing their research into the technology's potential applications.

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Impressive yet also scary

isn't this just like a 3d fax machine ?

Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Hockney's iPad Paintings

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/a ... ngs/68256/

i have no idea what the feck you are on about sorry!

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Richard 1963 "historicity"

http://kk.org/thetechnium/historicity/


Dali fakes and frauds that have real signatures

http://www.ebay.com/gds/Dali-fakes-and- ... 016/g.html

"Dali whispered into Gala's ear, and Gala repeated his statement to me: 'Dali says the picture is good, the signature is good, but the work is a fake,' " Delcourt recalls.
"Why is it a fake?" Delcourt asked.
"The answer: 'Dali has not been paid.'
"This is the guiding thread of the entire affair," Delcourt says.
"In all the contracts signed between Dali and various publishers, Dali never attached any importance either to moral rights or to the authorization to print. All he wanted was money."

Modern & past artist's have dabbled into exploring issues arising from the authenticity of their work both original and duplicated in different mediums, and the value attached...

Or is my 97 storm today the same VTR as when I bought it - it has the same registration no, yet like Trigger's Broom very little of it is original... same as the cells in our bodies - we aren't person as we were say 25 years ago as all the cells in that time have replenished (apart from cells in the lenses of our eyes).

Gone over my head

This is where I get a bit testy. IMHO not pissing on anybodies parade except for whoever made it : Total piece of garbage. Who ever said 3d fax machine is right except it destroys the original. Although I do see one foreseeable use. Maybe people will look back into transporting objects via a similar method as in the actual break down and transfer and recombination of materials.
Scotty makes a scan as it shreds material a step backward from our high tech slicers used in labs as well as high definition 3d scanners that already exist. That cnc could be going to actual good use milling me out a nice new floor for my new tank.
And again to the creator :