Earlier this week Wilson posted a video online showing a single shot being fired from "The Liberator, " a plastic handgun that, with the exception of a metal firing pin and a piece of metal included to comply with the Undetectable Firearms Act, was assembled entirely from parts made with a 3-D printer.
In today's metal-based gadgets, you either need to bend a piece of sheet metal, or die-cast with an inferior alloy like aluminum or magnesium.
This weakens the piece of metal itself: makes it more likely to crack for example.
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Boeing designed the 777 and 787 on computers BEFORE a single piece of metal was bent.
This is part of the braking system--a piece of metal put underneath one of the back wheels on extreme slopes.
The basic design--a long piece of metal, with a serrated blade, attached to a handle--didn't change much for several millennia.
All this sounds much more complicated than weighing from time to time a piece of metal stowed away in a vault.
That is the biggest moat in the entire world for one piece of metal to be used by everyone agreeing its money.
Thomas hit a piece of metal in the road and suffered internal bleeding after falling on his handlebars during training in Sydney, Australia.
The 5ft (1.52m) piece of metal, which bears a Boeing label and serial number, was wedged between two New York City buildings, police said.
Its premium design is created using a single piece of metal.
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It can even be an exorcism of sorts, feeding photos of former lovers or ridiculously large medical bills into the metal teeth, one piece at a time.
With Samsung's One Body Form design, the F8500 is created from a single piece of metal while highlighted with a dark titan metal color for a futuristic design.
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These early tools closely resembled the knives we use today, consisting of a piece of metal that was sharp on one end--the blade--and dull on the other--the tang.
Trailers are typically attached to tractors by a "fifth wheel, " in which a coupling pin on the trailer fits into the center of a large horseshoe-shaped piece of metal.
And Abbott Laboratories presented a first-in-humans study of a new stent that is reabsorbed into the body, potentially removing many of the risks of having a piece of metal sit permanently in an artery.
The injured include Eddie Huckaby, a 53-year-old Krum, Texas, resident who suffered a leg gash when a large piece of metal hit him as he was watching the race, his brother Terry Huckaby told CNN affiliate WKMG.
And Abbott Laboratories (nyse: ABT - news - people ) presented a first-in-humans study of a new stent that is reabsorbed into the body, potentially removing many of the risks of having a piece of metal sit permanently in an artery.
Baussan was just 23 years old when he was sold the old-fashioned distiller as a piece of scrap metal.
In bed I lay awake, thinking of my irritation, thinking of the silence, which had been, I now thought, not like some big swelling rubbery thing but like a piece of sharp metal caught in my throat.
No other metal or substance, like a piece of pizza, will do.
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Don't worry, though: you're not spending all that money just on a piece of cloth with a metal fastening strip attached.
It only value lies in the emotions of investors who line up to pay a higher price than the last one, just to own a piece of this beautiful inert metal.
Another piece of magic is high-K metal gate (HKMG).
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The metal and leather headphones have a timeless look, like a piece of high-end furniture designed by Le Corbusier or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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As you can see in the video, it has a nice, metal binder with thick, well-constructed pages that make it feel like a quality piece.
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But Carl Orff's famous piece has inspired countless others to produce their own versions, from the death metal group Therion to rappers Naz and Puff Daddy.
Thin branches, long vines and thicker branches comprised 100 thorns built around an initial metal structure, said Colin McKenzie of WCMG, an event marketing agency that started developing the piece five weeks ago.
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