A 1954 local phone directory hung from a crank-phone obviously several decades older; and a collection of old farm machinery included an enormous contraption Charley told me was a chaff cutter, a device for cutting straw.
He suggested that the easiest way to do it would be to use a forestry cutter, a device that attaches to a small vehicle and can be driven through an area to remove brush and debris.
Those used by engineering companies cost serious money and even they might balk at printing an object the size of the Milk Carton Derby boat.The team's printer is built around a second-hand computer-controlled plasma cutter (a device used for carving up sheets of metal).
So far the Boxee TV is shaping up to be every cable cutter's dream device.
Needle burners and cutters are small device that burn the tip of the needle and then cut the tip of the syringe making both unusable.
This new anastomosis system consists of a nickel-titanium (nitinol) connector, an aortic cutter, and a delivery device.
They first use a vinyl cutter — a computer-controlled device that cuts intricate patterns on large vinyl sheets — to create a plastic mold.
Each Phantom had a video camera in its nose, two small headlights, contact sensors, color sonar, and other accoutrements, and Graham explained that they could also be equipped with a variety of tools, including a cable cutter, and a suction device (or slurp gun) to bring back marine specimens.
Mr. Khalfan said the basement used by Kaltech contained about 20 machines for making signs -- cutters, silk-screening devices, acid etchers and other mechanisms -- but he said none were welding machines.
Technologies still need to be tested, mostly in the area of excavation devices, cutters and risers through Nautilus' Solwara project at the Papua New Guinea coast.
