Mosquitoes' Bloodsucking Tubes Could Enable High-Definition 3D Printing

[cstross@wandering.shop]

Mosquitoes' Bloodsucking Tubes Could Enable High-Definition 3D Printing

Proboscis of Female Mosquitoes Can Print in Finer Detail Than Expensive and Fragile Commercial Tips

https://drexel.edu/news/archive/2026/January/mosquito-proboscis-3D-printing

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@cstross Deeply, profoundly cursed.

[johnzajac@dice.camp]

@cstross

It's almost like hurriedly making all the animals and insects go extinct is a bad idea

[stevebellovin@infosec.exchange]

@cstross Imagine, if you will, mosquito breeding facilities. Then imagine a hack or natural disaster or carelessness…

[durandal@oldbytes.space]

@cstross replacing the nozzle is a pain at the best of times, now I have to catch them first?

[jguillaumes@mastodont.cat]

@cstross so the printer makers will create mosquito farms? To… reap their mouths and put them in machines?

The horror story (almost) writes itself.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@jguillaumes The sex industry entrepreneur who is first to market with a RealFlesh Fleshlight is going to make a killing …

[retech@defcon.social]

@cstross Just integrate the entire mosquito into the machine. The Gigeresque Lynch hybrid horror of this is, in itself, is a kind of disturbing art form. I wonder if we're not subconsciously doing this as revenge. Either way, those two details will be big selling points. Call it a revenge printer.

[log@mastodon.sdf.org]

@jguillaumes @cstross They have already turned entire spiders into robot grasping tools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrobotics

[highlandlawyer@mastodon.social]

@cstross @jguillaumes
Didn't some bloke write a novel with a plot point being 3d printers making things along that line?

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@HighlandLawyer @jguillaumes You aren't wondering how the RealFlesh in the RealFlesh Fleshlights is harvested, or who from?

[jguillaumes@mastodont.cat]

@cstross @HighlandLawyer googled (or more precisely ‘ecosia-Ed’ it.

Yuck .

[kirtai@tech.lgbt]

@cstross @jguillaumes
I once read a story about that.

[gyrosgeier@hachyderm.io]

@jguillaumes @cstross I believe not even Lexx:The Dark Zone went there.