Scientists in Bristol, England, printed a fully functional bicycle in March and three months later, theyprinted a bikini, showing how easy it is to print unique products with the same manufacturing process.
The rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement, which controls most of southern Sudan, has already printed 60 tonnes of the new notes, and last week rumour had itthey were about to issue them.
Miniaturized as todays drug laboratory may seem, it hardly goes beyond what electronics manufacturers were doing 40 years ago when they came up with printed circuit boards.