Human bones are amazing—seriously, they’re incredibly cool—but up until recently, it’s been hard to engineer a synthetic material that replicates the super-strong structure of the real thing. Now, scientists in Germany are using a 3D printer to do just that—and it could mean a breakthrough for how we build everything from architecture to spacecraft.
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So how can you customize a BMW in a really unusual way? Well, if you have a graveyard full of yak bones, you can just apply them all to the car and make it into a flying beast.
This dragon BMW Z4 was on display at the recent China Import and Export Fair in the Guangdong province. It is gold underneath and all of the rest of it is cut mountain yak bone. Yakkity yak…give my bones back!
I bet those yaks have a bone or three to pick with the builder of this car. Why is the dog chewing on the car again? The decor on this BMW is a real bone-nus. Is that the new XBone? Sorry, I’ll stop.
[via Daily Mail via Geekologie]
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