Method Turns Nearly any Object into a Data Storage Unit

  • Magazine Article
  • TBMG-37805
Published October 01, 2020 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
Language:
  • English

Living beings contain their own assembly and operating instructions in the form of DNA. That's not the case with inanimate objects. Anyone wishing to 3D-print an object also requires a set of instructions. If they then choose to print that same object again years later, they need access to the original digital information; the object itself does not store the printing instructions.