Soon You Won’t Buy Products… You’ll Just Print Them At Home
Posted by on Monday, April 18th, 2011 18 Comments Click Here to Comment!
Watch as Peter Diamandis explains “3d Printing” an emerging technology that allows you to “print” 3d objects out of any material – at home. Soon if you need a car part, a gadget, even a sculpture or appliance all you’ll need to buy are the design files and your home printer will make you one in minutes…
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Right now we have Paper Jams, printer not detected and Low Ink error messages… can you imagine the issues printers like this will have?
I am in the prining industry and this “Technology” has been around for a few years most of the uses were for prototypes .The Size was limited to a 11x17x12 .Made of a few materials.Most were very weak in structure .Im sure it will evolveinto something Greater. But dont see a magnitude of materials as you would have to keep on hand at a home . Maybe a commercial Store might be possible.
Thank you for your article it is informative
Good comments guys.
Firstly-”things called librarys” ah yes, and not going anywhere- want to store everything electronically? One good electrical storm or a magnetic fluctuation like we see demonstrated in extreme weather… and history erased.
Yes, Star Trek had the tele communicator- now called the cell or smart phone. I have no doubt that we’ll all be teleporting around the planet but not in this century.
Peripherally, I’d rather see us all have personal robots before this device. Thanks
How will they prevent the design files from spreading over the new P2P networks that will arrive with these printers?
I have been thinking alot about technology and love it! Believe anything is possible. If someone can dream it, it can be done. It is only a matter of time. For instance, in the movie Iron Man, I love the “holographic” computer. I hope to see one in my lifetime. Remember the cell phone, wasn’t that first “imagined” for Star Trek? It’s a good thing we can’t see 50 or 100 years into the future, people’s minds would blow!
I am BLOWN away by this. I am sitting here thinking about what this means spiritually. Because it basically gives more credence to the idea that if you would only have the faith of a mustard seed you could do/create anything… Out of thin air just like Christ did! Do you see where I am going with this? WOW! Anyway, the next thought I had was where in the world does the materials come from? Is it also creating the elements? The plastic, metals etc? I think this is where John was saying you have to have the materials to feed the machine.
With that said, this goes back to all of Tony’s teachings and many others… Our mind makes up the rules until we can control our mind and say, you know what, I am going to make a replicator like in star trek! That would save a lot of time! Now the brilliant minds of the world have opened their minds to say it is not impossible.
This is amazing to say the least…
What if there is a problem with the product you just printed? Can you put it back in the machine and send it back for a refund? lol.
Interesting, but they don’t show the tire rim actually being created – is it real or just a demo? Buying ink for a cheap inkjet printer is costly enough — imagine the cost of such a printer and the related supplies you need – steel, plastic, etc. I don’t think companies are going to be giving these printers away anytime soon. More likely, print the thing at a local store, but one-offs are going to be more expensive than mass produced. My local library will print any book on demand, but the cost per book is high, even for books where the copyright has expired.
I was waiting to see something get printed. Where is that mock up wheel that lady printed.
Many years ago, I put together a consortium with Swedish Telecom and WiLan of Canada, in order to provide Broadband internet to all the schools in Northern Ireland using WiFi – we were up against BT and what is now Virgin Media. We got through the first round but on approaching 2 major banks in Belfast for support, we fell flat on our face – the answer from both was “The Internet will NEVER catch on – it is just a fad.”
This concept will have initial teething problems but, if there is a demand, these will be overcome so I would not be suprised to see it. Incidentally, all schools, some 12 years later, STILL do not have broadband!
With the actual technology, most objects will take more than the 24 hours the delivery service takes. Also, I totally agree with Ken Harrison’s comment.
It would be cool and would be awesome if we could print ANYTHING everything starts somewhere. Who cares about the errors look a t the positives of this thing. If things are weak in structure then we can start by printing spare tires meant for 60 miles or 100 km you can’t deny that this is still cool. Everything from Star Trek is coming though. Tablets are main stream now. We can kind of talk to our computers. Teleportation and replication aren’t too far away. Thanks for posting this.
I think suggesting that you will have a printer in your own home is a little unlikely. Maybe a local store capable of taking the quantities of orders required to pay for the machine, but even then their would be a wait in a queue of ordered items. A day, a week, longer?
I think ebay will just fine for a long time to come.
It sounds great. We’ll have some medicines available readily in emergency.
But I am thinking what about quality tests and technical faults products have inspite of so many real time checks. And if we want to return/repair it due to quality issues-how do we handle it.
And will it not result in more factories closedown and jobcuts as most of production will be on demand at delivery point.
Well great idea but needs more lateral thinging.
its exciting to think about for sure, and all the bugs will be worked out if its really a worthwhile pursuit to develop this…I have to say though- we already pay literally $8000.00 a gallon for printer ink!
it’s all about saving time!
I wish I had these fantastic insight on that topic.
This is something to marvel at as we see it come to life. I visited my cousin on the NASA base where Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity is and he showed me one of these machines last month. So cool.