Breaking News. Plaster Casts For Broken Limbs Are Now A Thing Of The Past...

As some of us know, breaking an arm
or a leg isn't much fun and is made even more uncomfortable by the need to wear a cumbersome and inconvenient plaster cast.
With 3D printing and innovative design work such as that being pioneered by prosthetics company Bespoke, breaking a bone just mightn't be as bigger pain in the proverbial
as it once was...

New Zealander Lance Abernethy Uses A 3D Printer To Make The World's Smallest Electric Drill...

Auckland maintenance engineer Lance Abernethy who's been making tiny things since he was a small child drew up the plans using the computer design software package Onshape 3D and the Ultimake Two 3D printer to print out the drill body in two halves which took about twenty five minutes. And then it took another three hours to painstakingly get the wiring perfect. What could be the world's tiniest electric drill 
is powered by a hearing aid battery and
a miniature motor.
For his next trick Lance is hoping to drill
the world's smallest hole...

Here's How A 3D Printer Using Contour Crafting Can Build A Home In Twenty Four Hours...

They're predicting there'll be around nine billion people on Planet Earth by the end of the century.
That figure isn't likely to include you and me but there's going to be some fairly radical new building techniques developed by then to accommodate everyone.
Unless of course global warming and social unrest have done their thing and caused some major natural attrition.
But being positive there's a need for some sustainable approaches to home building.
Have a look at what's around the corner.
Presuming you can find a piece of land to build on, here's one way a house will be built.
The building site is prepared and a six metre tall crane like gantry is installed on rails on either side of the proposed house. The machine rolls backwards and forwards and using a method called contour crafting, a method of building by layering, extruding fast drying cement and within twenty four hours, there's a house.
All ready for the electricians, plumbers, painters and decorators to move in.
Then it's your turn...

Now There's A 3D Printed Running Shoe That Could Help The Wearer To Win Gold...

Shoe technology's come a long way since the Greek messenger Hermes was seen running around in his winged sandals.
Now, French engineering and design student Luc Fusaro has created this 3D printed running shoe that can actually be worn and run in.
He says it conceivably could take up to 3.5 percent off a runners time.
Time will tell.
There's now 3D printed technology it seems to make everything and anything from cars to artificial hearts and lungs.
An amateur gunsmith calling himself 'Have Blue' has made a 3D printed gun that evidently fires real bullets and is therefore probably capable of killing real people.
The mind boggles. Well mine does.
Perhaps I'll replace it with a 3D printed version...