Wednesday, September 14, 2011

MIT Shows Off New 3D Printing Projects

As I have said before: What can you make a 3-D printer? Almost anything. And it keeps getting better.

From PC Magazine:
Printing in three dimensions may sound like science fiction, but it's quickly becoming science fact, with the emerging technology expected to dramatically change industries as varied as manufacturing, architecture, and medicine.

A new video released by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the birthplace of 3D printing, provides a glimpse of how researchers continue to push forward on the new technology. Graduate students and professors are making strides with projects as varied as printing full meals, housing, and fully assembled cuckoo clocks. There's even an ongoing project to 3D print a 3D printer.

We've seen 3D printers make everything from video game tchotchkes to inticate miniatures, and heard researchers predict the printing of artificial organs. ExtremeTech's Sebastian Anthony predicts it will lead to something like the replicator and teleporter technology seen in Star Trek.



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