[dangerdoc]

The only thing I know about it is that they will eventually screw you on the ink. Every new model will come with a smaller more expensive cartridge.

[null and void]

3-D Printer Ping!

[lodi90]

Chicoms are not going to like this.

[Bobalu]

When 3D printing comes of age it will devastate socialists!

Who needs government when a 3D printer that can even replicate itself can create food, electronics and nearly anything else.

It will negate the value of cheap Chinese labor.

Eventually it will create biological body parts and along with other types of nano-tech lead to near immortality.

Once the digital computer was conceived we were set on this inevitable path.

We are entering the rapid up-slope of the computer revolution..we are leaving the linear world behind...advancement is now exponential.

[Ziva]

We’ve been following 3-D printers at Maker Faire the last three years. I’ve picked up a few interesting 3-D printing examples, including a Klein bottle.

You can view some interesting objects created by 3-D printing along with other photos we took at the 2012 Maker Faire at http://blog.retrocollage.com/faire-collage-making/

[latina4dubya]

If you are old enough to have experienced it, you probably had that moment in the ’90s or early 2000s when you realized everything was about to change. The sweeping Internet was changing music, reading, how we processed information, even the words we used to communicate. The change was fundamental and it happened so quickly, many of us had to catch our breath and keep ourselves from getting dizzy when we realized its significance.

for some reason, i don't remember it this way at all... i didn't experience it all as having to catch my breath... i can remember first using pcs, and macs (the teeny-tiny ones) and windows, and fax machines, and email... and car phones and then cell phones and palm pilots... using the internet... i was introduced to most of these things at work... and while it all happened in a short amount of time, i don't ever remember that "dizzying" feeling about it all...

[LibWhacker]

But who owns a 3-D design if it’s modeled after, say, a Disney character?

Yeah, I think just about the time 3-D printing starts taking off and the printers become more powerful and capable, they're going to be crippled by lawsuits and gov't interference. Printers will probably come with a huge ROM database of things the printer is not allowed to print: guns, anything with a patent, anything with a copyright, keys, etc. The list will be endless. Hard to be wildly optimistic.