Comments on: Filabot turns your plastic junk into material for 3D printers

By: jlr

jlr — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:04:09 +0000

They’ve had edible underwear for years.

By: dion2727

dion2727 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:47:16 +0000

You have all made my day. I cannot stop laughing .Better than most gag shows.Thank youall.

By: Dr. X

Dr. X — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:14:55 +0000

That was candies, not candles. Plural form of candy…
Toy out of garbage is big step toward candy from used underwear….

By: Dav3000

Dav3000 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:03:30 +0000

Great. All the waste dumps that were filled up during the last quarter century will become valuable real estate. Remember folks, you heard this investment tip here first.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:49:07 +0000

Oh yeah Bri. What really amazes me is that people in old rusty cars throw out empty Courvasier bottles. If they drank something cheaper, they’d have better cars. I’m always picking this trash up, ‘cuz if I don’t, my dogs will cut their paws. If a bottle doesn’t break the night it’s tossed, the school kids break it on the pavement in the morning.

By: Bri

Bri — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:38:25 +0000

How about we make plastic underwear and then burn them as candles?

By: ErikSMeyer

ErikSMeyer — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:15:07 +0000

Awesome! We can take plastic trash and use it as raw material to manufacture new plastic trash, in our Transmogrifiers! The Day of Abundance approaches!

By: GatorALLin

GatorALLin — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:50:37 +0000

I first heard about this project/idea on Kickstarter.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rocknail/filabot-plastic-filament-maker?ref=live

By: Dr. X

Dr. X — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:14:33 +0000

In 1950 there was a prediction that by year 2000 candies would be produced from used underwear…. Not there yet, but we are getting close.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/miracles-youll-see-in-the-next-fifty-years/

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:36:19 +0000

If this works properly, it will be huge. Makes me think of Transmetropolitan, where people collect garbage to fuel their makers.

Too bad the “video” is just a slideshow of photos.

By: Bri

Bri — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:53:07 +0000

Now this is awesome!!! I’ve been wondering if it were possible to utilize all that garbage that people throw out their windows, at the light in front of my shop!( I get ticketed if I don’t clean it up, you have no idea of how many empty bottles of booze people throw out while driving!) another step toward my 3D printing goals!

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:23:10 +0000

Now THIS is very cool. With this, we practically have matter rematerializers already. You know, as long as the matter involved is plastic.

Next up, demolecularizing objects with beam energy and reshaping them with beam energy.