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NASA'S WILD FABRIC IS BASICALLY CHAIN MAIL FROM THE FUTURE

06-17-2017 • Wired

It looks like chain mail, but unlike the ancient armor, NASA's fabric isn't welded together. Instead a 3-D printer extrudes stainless steel as a continuous sheet of material with different properties on each side.

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Consumer Reports Runs The Numbers On Tesla's Solar Roof

05-24-2017 • http://insideevs.com, by Mark Kane

Consumer Reports, which six months ago was skeptical about the viability of Tesla's Solar Roof product, has once again "done the math" using newly announced pricing estimations.

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Desktop waterjet cuts almost any material – and expenses

09-14-2016 • newatlas.com by Aaron Heinrich

Waterjet cutting is a proven method for creating intricate and precise cuts with nearly any kind of material, although the machines are big and expensive.

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Magnetic and modular LEDs can cover a wall in light

11-22-2016 • newatlas.com by Stu Robarts

Sometimes it would be useful, or even just cool, to be able to illuminate a whole wall.

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3D Concrete Printing. Hurricane, Tornado Resistant Houses

01-19-2017 • Total Kustom

The first commercially-available 3D Concrete Printer will be available for purchase soon - www.totalkustom.com

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Impressive DIY Tesla Solar Roof Tile Built On YouTube

05-19-2017 • http://insideevs.com, by Mark Kane

While Tesla itself still needs to figure out how to produce and prepare the production line for it Solar Roof products (a pilot validation line will be established at the company's Fremont facility in June before moving to volume production at the