this is amazing Options

[mrbubblehead]

what will this do to the classic car world?

http://www.break.com/index/why-3d-printing...ick-ass-2421396

[eric9144]

If you think the medical applications are 'far fetched' I suggest you have a look at this:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/patient-...0-1226593075470

Sure they're not printing tissues etc, but still...amazing stuff!

3D printing is going to be a world changer, people just dont realize it yet.

[zonedoubt]

If you think the medical applications are 'far fetched'

I don't think the medical usage is far fetched. The skull replacement prototype wàs made on a one million dollar machine by highly knowledgable scientists with an engineered plastic. Worlds apart from a hobbyist with few thousand dollar 3d printer dabbling with Sketchup. All I'm saying is that people at home with 3d printers aren't going to be replacing factories anytime soon.

Good opinion piece here: http://investing.covestor.com/2013/01/3d-p...r-go-mainstream

[VaccaRabite]

If you think the medical applications are 'far fetched'

I don't think the medical usage is far fetched. The skull replacement prototype wàs made on a one million dollar machine by highly knowledgable scientists with an engineered plastic. Worlds apart from a hobbyist with few thousand dollar 3d printer dabbling with Sketchup. All I'm saying is that people at home with 3d printers aren't going to be replacing factories anytime soon.

Good opinion piece here: http://investing.covestor.com/2013/01/3d-p...r-go-mainstream

So they ARE making body parts... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif)

We are't saying its RIGHT NOW.
We are saying that in 10 - 20 years this is a tech that COULD change everything.
Yeah, resolution is currently expensive and hard to get. But this is tech already in the hands of common folks like you and I.

In 1993, super computers took labs and science nerds to operate. Digital cameras were horrible unless you could pay 10s of thousands of dollars, and even then they were only 3-5mp. Digital media was still in the floppy disk drive era. Look at where we are now. Every one of us is running a super computer. Key fobs hold well over 100gb. A camera smaller then my wallet will shoot 12 mp images.

Unless there is a specific roadblock laid for 3D printing, I expect it to follow a similar curve, and the down stream effects will be just as disruptive as internet commerce was for brick and morter.

Zach