Monday, June 6, 2011

3D printing becomes mainstream, but is it useful?

It's still pretty inconceivable to me, '3D printing'. You want to print an article to read, or some pictures you took on holiday, but that's 2D. What's the need for 3D? Sounds like another gadget...

Well, not so fast... it would be handy to print spare parts for, say, a broken table leg. Just take a 3D picture, and the 3D printer would build a spare one with exact the same measures. Better than messing around for half a day trying to manufacture something similar (especially if you're born with two left hands, like me).

3D printing doesn't sound so absurd any longer and, according to the report beneath, will become a device for the masses pretty quickly:


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