Re: RP is cool - it's official!

From: Brock Hinzmann (bhinzmann@sric.sri.com)
Date: Thu Dec 07 2000 - 03:59:01 EET


You can be too perfect, and all too cool. The problem with the RP hand is
that it is cool. I hope they had something warm and fluid pumping through
it. Some fingerprint readers check for body warmth. Also, if it's static,
it might not be accepted, since a real person's fingers don't remain
perfectly still, so two identical reads in a row should get rejected.

Brock Hinzmann

Phil Reeves wrote:
>Neil and RPML
>
>If cool means mass market exposure, then hows this?
>
>If anyone hasn't seen the recent Charlie's Angels spoof movie yet have a
>look one day. They use 3D laser scanning to take finger prints of a beer
>glass, then they process the point cloud data in a surfacing package
before
>building a replica hand from a vat of liquid resin. Hey-presto a replica
of
>the bad guys hand, finger prints and all, just enough to open that
tricky
>safe with the all important e-commerce data locked inside.
>
>Sound familiar, yes RP/ R-manufacturing is cool, very cool and its real,
>beats e-commerce hands down.
>
>Dr Phil Reeves
>Edward Mackenzie Consulting
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Neil Hopkinson" <nhopkins@dmu.ac.uk>
>To: <rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi>
>Sent: 06 December 2000 13:49
>Subject: RP is cool - it's official!
>
>
>> After the appearance of Z Corps's Z402 in UK tabloid "The Sun" a few
weeks
>> ago it has now appeared in fashion magazine "The Face" December 2000
>issue.
>> The brief article concludes with the comment "3D printers - how did we
>ever
>> live without them?"
>>
>> Neil
>>
>> Dr Neil Hopkinson
>> Rapid Manufacturing Research Group
>> Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Eng
>> De Montfort University
>> Queens Building, The Gateway,
>> Leicester,
>> LE1 9BH,
>> UK.
>>
>> Tel +44 116 2551551 x8064
>> Fax +44 116 2577052
>> http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/RMG/Welcome.htm
>>
>> For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/
>>
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