Scientific Blogging has an extremely interesting article that, after a Slice of SciFi fan (Matt in Michigan) sent it to me, made me sit up and take serious notice. My first thought was – “OMG! We’re making replicants!”

It would seem that a senior researcher at the University of Bath has created a device, the replicating rapid-prototyper, dubbed the RepRap, (quite possibly an idea stolen from those hairless aliens from Stargate). It is an open source prototype machine that has succeeded in making a duplicate of itself – by printing its own parts and building a clone.

To learn more about RepRap visit Scientific Blogging: RepRap – Open Source Machine ‘Prints’ 3-D Objects, Including Copies Of Itself.