Printing a Flute

This is entirely too cool...a computer making a flute...actually it's a printer, but the idea that you can use a computer to make something is really cool. From Popular Science:

The flute was created on an Objet Connex500 rapid prototyper, a 3-D printer that can print in multiple materials at the same time. The flute was constructed from a few different materials – a rigid material for the body, a softer one for the mouthpiece, another for sealing the air in at the proper places – during a print run of about 15 hours, during which time the materials were added on one thin layer at a time.

Science fiction has come to life...a replicator. First we had communicators, and now a replicator.  What else will we see in my lifetime?

via Instapundit