More Than Meets The Eye

September 2nd, 2008 | by Craig |

I can’t help it. I just think that this stuff is cool.

The concept of programmable matter can be thought of as “the ultimate form of digital printing”, Rattner told ZDNet Asia Wednesday in an interview. “You literally could make an object of any imaginable shape, or design an object of any imaginable shape, and simply ‘hit the print command’ and the matter would take that shape.

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This particular technology, though, is far from being an illusion–Intel’s scientists and engineers, who have been laboring in exploratory research, have come up with early prototypes at the centimeter and millimeter scale, according to Rattner, who is also senior fellow and vice president of the corporate technology group at Intel. “And we’ll go from millimeters to microns, I guess, some time over the next five to 10 years.”

Two orders of magnitude in a decade.

The mind boggles.

  1. 4 Responses to “More Than Meets The Eye”

  2. By Gregg Smith on Sep 3, 2008 | Reply

    So long, Fed Ex.

  3. By dogette on Sep 3, 2008 | Reply

    Craig you’re so white and nerdy.

  4. By Doug on Sep 3, 2008 | Reply

    “How would you program a million or a billion pieces of programmable matter? What does programming even mean?”

    Job security, I would suspect. Unless and until Bill Gates gets ahold of them. When that happens I can’t wait for a hard reboot taking place in my pants that results in me growing an extra leg or two. Ah, progress.

  5. By J on Sep 3, 2008 | Reply

    Meh. Let me know when I can download porn with it.

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