Injured Bald Eagle Gets New 3-D Printed Beak 103
An anonymous reader writes "A bald eagle that lost its beak to a poacher's gun receives a 3-D printed beak prosthetic like a dental implant."
More (with pictures): "Mr Calvin, a founder of the Boise-based Kinetic Engineering Group, made a mold of Beauty's shattered upper mandible, laser-scanned it, fine-tuned it in a 3D modeling program, and created a prosthetic beak from a nylon-based polymer."
Re:So now our national mascot gets plastic surgery (Score:4, Insightful)
I know this is a random AC posting something meant to be humorous but I have to chime in: Plastic surgery was originally developed to repair damage by accident, injury or disease. Fixing an eagle's beak would actually be the exact purpose of plastic surgery as originally developed.
Re:Will it survive UV breakdown? (Score:5, Insightful)
Inquisitive means "inclined to ask questions", not "inclined to ask intelligent questions."