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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

ONE THING INTO ANOTHER - PRINTER INTO LABORATORY

I very much like the idea of one device having multiple applications (with a small amount of reconfiguring or even retooling).

To me this is a positive step towards God Technology.

Now you can turn your inkjet printer into a chemistry lab and use it to diagnose diabetes

5 hours ago by Mark Lorch, The Conversation
Now you can turn your inkjet printer into a chemistry lab and use it to diagnose diabetes
Ready, set, print me a reaction. Credit: Chaikom
If you stop and think about it for a moment, you will realise what an astonishing feat of precision engineering your colour printer is. It can take the primary colours – cyan, yellow, magenta and black – and mix them together carefully enough to achieve more than a million different hues and shades. Not only that but the drops of colour are mere nanolitres (billionths of a litre) in volume, each of which is then placed on the paper – assuming its not jammed in the feeder tray – with better than pinpoint accuracy...


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