so, i was reading this story over on Techdirt about using inkjet printers to spray live human cells on a wound to help regenerate tissue and i had a convergence moment...
the classical notion of delivering real world products (as in things you can hold in your hands) over the internet has always been of the matter transporter variety, where someday in the distant future when we finally figure out how to transport matter like they do on star trek we'll be able to order our products on the internet and have them beamed to some peripheral attached to our computer...
but why wait for matter transport technology? if we can print human skin and circuit boards and such, it seems to me that with the appropriate component slurries we should be able to print up a variety of hard products right now... we'd just need to download the printer codes necessary for the printer to know how to print them...
ok, now i'm giving this idea to the world so someone can go out and actually do this... it would be so cool...
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