Innovation Future Specialist
Amazing Innovations: Machines: 2016
In addition to robots, we have created other impressive machines too.
Here are some of the amazing innovations that took place in 2016, or did they? See how many you get right in this true or false quiz...
3D printing
The world of 3D printing continues to increase in capability. It seems that just about anything can now be produced by some sort of 3D printer: buildings, aircraft, cars, plastic objects, food, human organs, objects with electronics in, and now advanced composite materials. See also 3D printing in Space.
True? False?When we eventually get nanotechnology 3D printers we will be able to produce almost anything [just like the Star Trek replicator]
When we eventually get nanotechnology 3D printers we will be able to produce almost anything [just like the Star Trek replicator]
An open and closed book
Technology was used to read the pages of a closed book.
True? False?Pretty impressive.
Pretty impressive.
Impossible optics
Innovations in optics created super-lenses able to see greater detail than was thought physically possible [smaller than the wavelength of light]; including a flat lens.
True? False?More examples of achieving "impossible" things.
More examples of achieving "impossible" things.