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Fri 07 Jul 2008Printer plots brave new 3D world
IN FURTHER proof that Star Trek has become the quintessential muse for the technology industry, an Irish company is inching closer towards releasing a version of the replicator, the machine on Star Trek that creates objects on demand.
MCor Technologies, based in Ardee, Co Louth, will launch a 3D printer this autumn at a show in Britain. But it is already taking orders and has working models that produce prototypes and 3D objects out of plain office paper and adhesive.
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