Monday, October 09, 2006

3D Printing and Internet

This is indeed what the internet could be like someday.

http://www.greedtube.com/video/28/web_20_thefirstpostcouk

I wouldn't design 3d printers to do this precisely, but printing out a cooked pizza slice and pulling magazines from a screen that also prints objects is a fantastic way to make the world be.

A 3D printer uses nanorobots to construct molecules atom by atom and objects molecule by molecule. A flat LCD-style screen could become a drafting board for printing that object out of the screen itself, or out of a relatively flat panel somewhere else. Documents could also be printed vertically instead of horizontally.

This and its compatriots by 2015. Or bust. Quite frankly, or bust.

1 comment:

William Bunker said...

I also wonder what kind of stuff is available for free at or near the start off the Appalacian trail and Mt Everest. They say people cast of what is too heavy to carry there. Unfortunately, this is junk.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1890384,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12