NatNet 3D Molecular Printing - Is This Legit?

[Brian_Krassenstein]

Their website http://natnet.it doesn't load any longer. Looks like they were fibbing perhaps. I'm not sure what it accomplished though....

[awerby]

Everybody wants a Star Trek replicator, so of course someone was willing to promise them one. But there is some legitimate progress on the nano-scale digital fabrication front. Researchers at the University of Vienna have been working on a system for some years now that uses crossing laser beams to build objects on a molecular scale: http://www.tuwien.ac.at/en/news/news.../article/7444/ Apparently they can build any form they want this way, but not in any material.

Andrew Werby
www.computersculpture.com

[frederick78]

One day, there will be a 3D Printer that can break down molecules and reconstruct them however they'd like. However I see that as being at least 15-20 years down the road. Could even be closer to 50-100.

[greatestalive]

It looks like their website is now back up....
However they haven't had an update on twitter or facebook since the end of october (3 months already).

[mechadense]

I think by now it's as good as certain that this natnet printer was a hoax in every respect.
It didn't even draw all that much attention.

I've started collecting relevant bits and pieces about the real form of atomically precise manufacturing on my growing web-page.
Among other things I try to include:

• the current point of progress
• the many points where work needs to be continued or yet started
• a rough sketch for atomically precise small scale factories which are a yet distant useful guiding aim point for this technology - design decisions are exclusively based on lots of thoroughly tested knowledge

http://apm.bplaced.net/