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		<description><![CDATA[This &#8216;3D-printed&#8217; bottle wasn&#8217;t made by a machine, unless you consider an army of industrious honeybees a machine. For a new Dewar&#8217;s Whiskey campaign, 80,000 highlander honey bees producing the prime ingredient for its new highlander honey whiskey were enlisted to work on a side project: a three-dimensional bottle made of honeycomb. The bees were <a href="https://weburbanist.com/2013/07/15/3b-printing-bees-create-bottle-for-dewars-whiskey/">&#8230;</a>]]></description>
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This &lsquo;3D-printed&rsquo; bottle wasn&rsquo;t made by a machine, unless you consider an army of industrious honeybees a machine. For a new Dewar&rsquo;s Whiskey campaign, 80,000 highlander honey bees producing the prime ingredient for its new highlander honey whiskey were enlisted to work on a side project: <a href="http://www.designboom.com/technology/3b-printing-honeycomb-project-for-dewars-whisky-by-teg-sid-lee/">a three-dimensional bottle made of honeycomb</a>.</p>
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<p>The bees were placed inside a vessel that mimics their usual hive setup in all ways except one: the shape. They quickly got to work creating the honeycomb bottle. Sid Lee Creative Studio and The Ebeling Group call it &lsquo;3B Printing.&rsquo; Watch the video to see the process in action.</p>
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<p>This isn&rsquo;t the first time living creatures have been put to work on creating three-dimensional projects. The MIT Media Lab created a &ldquo;<a href="https://weburbanist.com/2013/06/05/living-architecture-evolving-pavilion-made-by-silk-worms/">collaboration between digital and biological fabrication</a>&rdquo; with a network of silk threads made by a CNC machine, which was then covered in a natural netting made by dozens of silkworms squirming all over its surfaces.</p>
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