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It's marketing: the average guy won't buy a "make-up printer", but a "skin printer" sounds much more palatable.
by jpatokal 8y ago
It's marketing: the average guy won't buy a "make-up printer", but a "skin printer" sounds much more palatable.
- cronix 8y agoBut then we wouldn't have had Buffalo Bill and the Silence of the Lambs would have just been some geek in a basement printing skin.
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- Someone 8y agohttps://3dprint.com/162193/wfirm-3d-printed-skin-burn-care/ https://3dprint.com/162193/wfirm-3d-printed-skin-burn-care/ I wouldn’t call it palatable, though, as intended use is on severe wounds. That doesn’t make for pretty videos, even on fake wounds (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q8DnF0tF7D0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q8DnF0tF7D0, https://school.wakehealth.edu/Research/Institutes-and-Centers/Wake-Forest-Institute-for-Regenerative-Medicine/Research/Military-Applications/Printing-Skin-Cells-on-Burn-Wounds https://school.wakehealth.edu/Research/Institutes-and-Center...)
- amelius 8y ago"skin printer" sounds like they are printing new skin (that's what I thought when I first read the title)