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Human hearts printed on your ink jet
JAPANESE boffins have been working on a printer that can " print out" new human hearts using simple inkjet technology.
Professor Makoto Nakamura has managed to get his printer to jet out cells but one day wants to print out thousands of cells per second and to build them up into a three-dimensional organ.
The professor from the graduate school of science and technology for research at the state-run University of Toyama said one day he wants to print off a heart.
We guess it depends if he has enough red in his cartridge. We are always running out of red, it must be all those complaints we send ou.
He said it will take him 20 years to develop a heart and when he does he could mass produce "good hearts" for patients waiting for transplants.
If the heart made of cells originating from the patient could eliminate fears that the body would reject them.
Prof Nakamura has already succeeded in building a tube with living cells as narrow as narrow as human hair. Which we would have thought would mean he could transplant hair.
He said that he was motivated to build his cell printing machine because he was fed up with watching children with heart problems dying.
Prof Nakamura draws the idea of printing brains or trying to create new life, even though he could eventually knock out a cyborg girl with large breasts on his inkjet.
Prof Nakamura had a break through when he discovered that droplets from inkjet printers were about the same size as human cells.
He borrowed a Seiko Epson printer from work in 2002 and tried to eject cells with it, but the inkjet nozzle got clogged.
When he rang the company's customer service the woman on the end of the blower had no idea what to do when you get organic matter clogged in your nozzles.
After a few tries he eventually reached an Epson official who showed interest and agreed to give him technical support.
It took him a year to get the cells to survive the printing process and a couple of years to raise enough money to buy printer cartridges. ยต
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Before we can print out a copy of Sigourney Weaver in the spacesuit donning pose?

Concerned pervs need to know this.
"We guess it depends if he has enough red in his cartridge. We are always running out of red, it must be all those complaints we send ou."

You sure you don't mean magenta instead of red? :P
No seriously that is amazing, good man the doc. That will save a lot of lives one day I am sure.

Dont tell Will Wright for goodness sake.

For the hard of gaming, his new game Spore is supposed to allow you to buy 3d printed models of creatures using a related but more primitive technology.

You cant help wondering what might happen if you printed a creature out with cells instead of plastic, maybe you could bring it to life. 

That would be playing God indeed!
How long
Before we can print out a copy of Sigourney Weaver in the spacesuit donning pose?

...Playing god and the general commoditisation of life is all well and good, but some things are just downright unethical.

...perhaps if she was in a paper bag-on-head donning pose.
It Wasn't More Than 18 Months Ago: Healthier Mike Magee had Blue Coat Party, Where Octobipass was perform by Myself.

I abandoned procedure when blood started flowing from Mikes Nose, by Ol'Faithful, Something about Pressure Rolling new eightsided Papers, Clogging Main artery.

Barf, Puke on plane out of town, I've still got Bag to Proveit, Heres comes out of blue Machine of My Dreams. Breasts as Big As House., Doorman twenty Feet High, for second story deliveries, awaiting Crapents, Poppywhites & TakoMarks, Yes, however: is it reproduceable?Of Course NOT>
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Ol'Faithful States:Woof!
I want my next one yellow, please !