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Princeton's finest boffins have managed to print out an ear, and it's not just a simple prosthetic, it's actually an enhancement with a radio antenna built in. The process of combining electrical circuits with flesh is fraught with difficulties, and building ears is a common challenge given the complexity of shape and their …

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  1. annodomini2
    Gimp

    Nipple implant

    Thing is doe it include a right nipple implant that I can twist to pick up jazz fm?

    (One for the dwarfers)

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    1. AbortRetryFail
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      Re: Nipple implant

      Double Polaroid moment? ;o)

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Nipple implant

      So long as Kochanski doesn't get one:

      "So I'm with her, right? playing with 'er funbags, then all-ov-a-sudden she starts in

      "Never gonna give you up

      Never gonna let you down"

      Ya'know what a mood-killer it is being Rick Rolled?"

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Well done chaps

    ... ear ear!

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  3. Gordon 10
    Terminator

    Oh Lordy ROTM

    Am I the only one who sees this technology being used to print the skin over fleshy seeking Terminators.

    /Gets me flak jacket.

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    1. Zaphod.Beeblebrox
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      Re: Oh Lordy ROTM

      Forget the flak jacket, where's my shotgun? And ammo? Lots of ammo!

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  4. tony2heads
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    Where to put it

    Star Trek style - new front ear!

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  5. Identity
    Coat

    "Now look ear"

    Shouldn't that be a camera, then?

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  6. NomNomNom

    i refuse to be impressed until they can print out a 3d printer

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    1. nichobe
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      Getting closer.

      Today's fish is trout al la creme, please enjoy your meal....

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    2. annodomini2
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      RepRap is an attempt, yes it can't print everything, yes you still have to build it.

      But it's a step.

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  7. Sceptic Tank Silver badge
    Meh

    All we 'ear is ... radio gaga.

    That's earie. Once again people will be glued to their radios.

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  8. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    Hipster will get one....

    I can see it now: A hipster gets one, and the immediately voids his warranty by putting a big gauge piercing through it.

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    1. Fred Flintstone Gold badge
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      Re: Hipster will get one....

      Just have the piercing printed as well, already in the ear.

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  9. Barry Dingle

    Can you hear me now?

    Besides looking delicious and not at all freakish, anything that can help with my ears' "propensity to become torn off or damaged" is welcome indeed. I'm all the time losing one when rolling around during sleep. Sometimes, I'll even find one caught by the shower drain after a vigorous scrub.

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  10. Pet Peeve
    Boffin

    BLARRGH

    Well, that's really gross, but I kind of want one?

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  11. taxman
    Happy

    Being totally serious for once

    This actually could be used for those who have Treacher Collinge Syndrome.

    For those of you who'd like to know more - part of the Syndrome means that they are born without part or all of the pinna. One of the symptoms of the syndrome may be that they have no ear canal, so they have to have a bone anchored hearing aid (BAHA).

    So using this they would not have to have a stud through the bone (skull).

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  12. Arachnoid
    Facepalm

    Now make a few boobs and it might generate a little more interest to us males but ear fetishist are few and far between round ear

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  13. TeeCee Gold badge
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    Durability.

    ...regularly tested over 10 weeks to ensure they remained biologically viable, which they did.

    So, no danger of "ear today, gone tomorrow" then?

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  14. egeria
    Angel

    Ear on arm

    Reminds me of Stelarc's Ear on Arm (engineering an Internet organ), http://stelarc.org/?catID=20242

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  15. John Brown (no body) Silver badge
    Joke

    Friends, Romans, Countrymen...

    ...lend me your....oh, thank you, no, please, I really only need the one for now, no really, I just don't have anywhere to put that many.

    On a serious note though,there didn't seem to be any blood supply visible in the photo. Does this ear have blood vessels so as to"live" a lifetime?

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  16. Trustme

    Hmmmm....

    I see the manufacturers of the "Rabbit" releasing a whole new line....

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