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3D Printed Rhino Horn Could Help Save Species

By atesmeh | July 22, 2015

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 From the African plain to a custom video game console artist in Florida, 3D printing is reshaping the things around us. Poaching is a serious problem for rhinoceros and other wildlife in Africa, and one biotech company is aiming to print gene-sequenced rhino horns that could sustain the trade instead of hunters having to go after the real thing.

Raytheon is also using 3D printing, for different purposes – 80 percent of the parts in its guided missiles could be printed, following the initiative put into practice by companies like SpaceX and Lockheed, which utilize printing in order to keep manufacturing in the United States.

Saving rhinos with 3D printing

Can new 3D printing technology help save the rhinos. In the last six years the reported numbers of rhinos killed in South Africa has risen from 13 to 1,215 each year. Now a Biotech company has engineered the keratin found in rhino horns, which, in cooperation with a genome sequencing project, could produce replicas of rhino horns using 3D printing technology …
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Raytheon Follows SpaceX Into World Of 3D Printing With Guided Missile Controls, Artillery Fins

Raytheon has figured out how to produce 80 percent of the parts of its guided missile with a 3D printing technology. The announcement from one of the biggest U.S. arms manufacturers comes after SpaceX, Lockheed and other prominent American companies have invested in 3D printing technology as a means of keeping production in the United States …
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Designer Uses 3D Printing to Create This Portable R2-D2 Star Wars Themed Playstation 4

While the Playstation 4 is a beast of a machine, sometimes the exterior aesthetics can get old, a bit boring, some may say. Having said this, if you are a Star Wars fan, or have a particular interest in the R2-D2 character from the Star Wars movies, then this modified Playstation 4, designed by a man named Eddie Zarick, from Fort Myers, Florida certainly will get you excited …
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