It’s possible to print a bone-like material now. You could print a scaffold, put that in a body and let the body heal normally, but quicker. Knitting bone is slow and error-prone. This should help with that.

I found a good podcast from KQED. The Bay Bridged

I’ve wanted one of these for years, since they came out! I found a great deal on one. It’s a 2002 with 25,000 miles on it. Someone left it in their garage except for Sundays it seems. I should have it paid off in a year too. Not bad!

Because I have a 3D printer and I can. – Me

Fly over of the Earth from the ISS. Check out all the lights people made and the lightning in the storms:

Bre Pettis of Makerbot discussing how 3D printers work on the Colbert Report.

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently” – Henry Ford

Mike Rowe, who creates and stars in the show Dirty Jobs, talks to Congress about jobs and people and education and try to get Congress to see life as it really is outside of marble halls. He talks about his grandfather and all the trades he could perform.

This guy made a number of marble machines. This is what I was thinking of when I was talking about the xylophone before. It’d be neat to have a room sized one that wrapped around the walls of a room.

El Cielo de Canarias / Canary sky – Tenerife from Daniel López on Vimeo.

Really kind of makes sticking your head in a lion’s mouth look tame:

SciAm has news of a new type of solar cell that uses both light energy and heat energy. 30% efficiency, not bad! I’d like to see this get commercialized soon. Nuclear power is about 30% efficient, and high efficiency triple junction solar cells ($$$ and fragile) are 30%-45% efficient.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=single-device-captures-suns-light-a-11-04-06

This is neat! They made a xylophone out of a forest. I bet I could make a smaller one that combined this with a marble machine. The tone boards could be tunable by being hollow with one side sliding in and out of the end. They’d all be hooked up on a descending line and a small robot could climb down them or move on a wire to the side, pulling and pushing the tuning bit. Then have the ball move back to the top the way it normally does in a marble maze. You could program in different sounds and timing.

One of the final Space Shuttle launches as seen from an airplane. Looks pretty awesome!