At the end of the process, I had a printable, or mobile-viewable, map with about a dozen locations marked as interesting, rather than a mass of undifferentiated pins on map.

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In this sense, to me, printable guns are a step in the wrong direction.

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In addition to the usual set of Trophies, completing levels also grants the player a variety of printable templates for paper-craft models.

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Or it could be a piece of jewellery, cast from a mould made by a 3D printer or produced directly using a growing number of printable materials.

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The whole process, including the time to convert the original medical images to printable 3-D data, usually takes a few days.

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Ghassaei developed a technique that converts digital audio files into 3D printable (33 rpm) grooved plastic discs, that actually play on regular turntables.

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Such an invention could have serious implications for fields like surveillance and wildlife observation, but fear not, AIST hasn't lost its sense of humor -- the company used a Bullwinkle figurine rotating on a Lazy Susan to demo its latest invention at Printable Electronics 2011.

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People can get printable coupons as well as online coupons that they can use on a website.

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They could be used to make cheap radio-frequency identity tags in essence, printable bar-codes that transmit an identifying code in response to a pulsed radio signal.

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