A 3-D Printer? What will they think of next!?

[gategrrl]

  3-D printers? Hmmm. That's a concept to wrap your head around...or perhaps print it out.

Excerpt:

Writing in today's issue of the Inderscience publication International Journal of Technology Marketing, US researchers discuss how this technology might eventually move into the mainstream allowing work environments to 3-D print equipment, whether that is plastic paperclips, teacups, or components that can be joined to make sophisticated devices, perhaps bolted together with printed nuts and bolts.

Comments

[betacandy.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounds like some of the very confusing stuff I've read about nanofactories. I'm not sure I understood any of it, but it sounded like it might well pump out 3D objects or the components to make them.

Fascinating!

[lavvyan.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I can 3-D print Joe Flanigan. Or David Hewlett. *ponders*