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Renegade:
Saw this:

http://www.tuwien.ac.at/en/news/news_detail/article/7444/



Printing three dimensional objects with incredibly fine details is now possible using “two-photon lithography”. With this technology, tiny structures on a nanometer scale can be fabricated. Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) have now made a major breakthrough in speeding up this printing technique: The high-precision-3D-printer at TU Vienna is orders of magnitude faster than similar devices (see video). This opens up completely new areas of application, such as in medicine.
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Cool car. Wouldn't get you far, but still pretty cool! :D

kyrathaba:
Amazing tech. I can't imagine the medical applications this will find in the next 30-40 years.

tomos:
I had to look up this µm measurement (micron) - it's 0.001 mm.

That car is 285 µm = .285mm. I would have thought that about the size of the head of a pin, but it turns out that's almost 2mm...
http://www.cellsalive.com/howbig.htm

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