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A real bicycle that you can grow?...from nylon?

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Shades:
More for the mechanically inclined:

A link to a bicycle that is 'grown' instead of constructed. :huh:

Deozaan:
Calling that "growing" is a bit misleading. But the technology is still pretty neat. :Thmbsup:

AndyM:
I think the manufacturing process is earth shaking.  They're not exaggerating when they call it "game-changing technology" and a "paradigm shift".  The mind boggles.

Renegade:
Looking at the bike, it instantly make you think of 3D printing, and:

Similar in concept to 3D printing, the bike design is perfected using computer-aided design and then constructed by using a powerful laser-sintering process which adds successive, thin layers of the chosen structural material until a solid, fully-formed bike emerges.
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But they don't really explain the difference.

Still, it sounds very cool. I wonder how long it will be before it hits production.

phitsc:
Calling that "growing" is a bit misleading. But the technology is still pretty neat. :Thmbsup:
-Deozaan (May 14, 2011, 07:20 PM)
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Indeed. I expected you can eat it once you've reached your destination.  ;)

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