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The 3-d printers are coming:

Bill Gross, chairman of IdeaLab, says the technology it has developed… will allow the price of the printers to fall to $1,000 in four years.

Interesting.

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5 Responses to “XYZ”

  1. Bill Says:
    May 7th, 2007 at 10:41 am

    These guys are working on making it happen sooner than that for the do it yourself types.

  2. Bill Says:
    May 7th, 2007 at 10:42 am

    Opps, the link didn’t post. RepRap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RepRap_Project

  3. brian Says:
    May 7th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

    I like that; The first thing you promise to do with your Reprap is .. build another.

  4. Noah D Says:
    May 7th, 2007 at 10:53 pm

    “Rapid prototyping and direct writing technologies are sufficiently versatile to allow them to be used to make a von Neumann Universal Constructor.”

    This may not be a good idea.

  5. brian Says:
    May 8th, 2007 at 2:11 am

    This may not be a good idea.

    It might not be but like atomic bombs and The Spice Girls, it is inevitable.