BAAM 3D printer
3D printers are slow. They are so slow that in the time it would take to print a screwdriver, you could just drive to the store and pick one up with a half hour to spare. And that’s a problem when a manufacturing job calls for creating units as quickly as possible. (Video)
Continue reading… “Reinventing the 3D printer to make it faster”
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With the promise of 3D printing on the national agenda, scientists want to increase the stakes — with so-called 4-D printing. The “fourth dimension” refers to time — as in the space-time continuum described by the mathematician Hermann Minkowski early in the 20th century.
Continue reading… “The next big thing – 4D printers”
Futurist Thomas Frey: Would you buy a product that was advertised as “Naturally grown, completely organic, printed food?”
Continue reading… “The Coming Food Printer Revolution”