The concept of 3D printing has evolved a lot in the last few months and we have seen surprisingly odd things being created using this phenomena. Now Scientists from the Princeton University have created a bionic human ear which is capable of listening things even normal human ears can’t. The bionic organ has been made using 3D printing and features cutting-edge electronics that make it functional in a mind blowing fashion.
The ear these scientists have created uses the embedded antenna to hear things that normal humans of today can’t listen to. This creation has resulted after remarkable work by scientists who took the very hard challenge and made the impossible a reality. What scientists did is they merged the electronics with the mammalian tissues – which was made easier thanks to the concept of 3D printing. Using 3D printing scientists created the biological tissues as well as embedded the required electronics into the bionic ear.
The ear they have created is a fully integrated organ that features circuitry and interwoven layers of tissue. The artificial ear created by the scientists is capable of hearing radio frequencies as well other other ranges of sound not hearable with our ears.
What’s interesting about this creation is that scientists used whatever they already had to create this bionic ear and didn’t actually invented anything to achieve this feat. That means we can have much better bionic ears when scientists modify the design and make them better by creating stuff which could aid the process better than what they have created right now.