Today’s counterfeiters have it easy. Back in the day you had to be crafty and make, design them yourself. Now-a-days punk kids just print them off.
“There really is no craftsmanship or workmanship in this anymore,” Special Agent Scott Vogel, a 20-year veteran, told the Detroit Free Press. “If you’re able to put a piece of paper in a copy machine and push a button, that’s pretty much all it takes.”
It’s a shame the specs on this Camaro computer are so lame (and the price so high) because it would be pretty cool otherwise.
That looks legit.
10 years ago today, Expedition 1 Commander Bill Shepherd and Flight Engineers Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko climbed aboard the International Space Station, marking the first of 3652 days of continuous occupation so far. I think that on that day a decade ago, we truly became a space-faring species.
Since that day, 200 men and women from more than a dozen nations have stayed aboard the station, living there, playing there, working there, and yes, even doing some science there.
Think hybrid cars are futuristic? How about a hybrid car that has literally been printed out? Stratasys and Kor Ecologic recently teamed to develop Urbee, the first car ever to have its entire body 3-D printed with additive manufacturing processes (by printing layers of material on top of each other until a finished product appears).
3-D printing has been used for manufacturing before. Boeing, for example, prints some airplane parts using the process. And a company called Bespoke Innovations is using 3-D printing to manufacture prosthetic limb casings. But Urbee is entirely 3-D printed–all exterior components were produced with Dimension 3D Printers and Fortus 3D Production Systems by Stratsys.
