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This technology will spawn lawsuits. Artists, copyright holders and manufacturers are going to have kittens when this comes out.
Engineering firms are already paying big bucks for this technology to create prototypes of bridges, towers, etc??? I can???t wait to have them affordable enough to play with myself.
But it does bring "up" the question of what might get replicated. "Um, Lorie, what is that on your coffee table!" "Oh, that is Nick, that guy could be so like boring, but he did have somethings going for him."
Need a Kidney and no donors? Print one..see http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney.html
It is just a short time away to perfection
It is just a short time away to perfection
This is how I read it:
I can't wait to have them affordable enough to play with, myself.
And I'll have you know, if there's one thing I'm not, it's boring!
Nick
I can't wait to have them affordable enough to play with, myself.
And I'll have you know, if there's one thing I'm not, it's boring!
Nick
Wired wrote about them some time ago: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/makerbot/
Kittens become cats which make more kittens. I wonder if a 3D printer can be used to make a 3D printer?
It already exists (sort of). There is a cool open-source project which aims to build just that, a self-replicating 3D printer. I wanted to build one a while ago... never got around to doing it... here is the link to the project:
http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page
RepRaps are trash. You could wave around a hot glue gun by hand and achieve better results.
I think they will put something in the chemical to give it a 3D watermark. It will be nice to make a plastic do-dad instead of running to the hardware store.
I bet kids will be making "Hello Kitty" cellphone cases all the time.....LOL
I bet kids will be making "Hello Kitty" cellphone cases all the time.....LOL
How will it impact vintage car trade? How much does it affect the price of a car if it has 100% identical replicate parts?
Might be just the kicker we need to get the whole copyright and patent mess sorted out.
In the meantime, I am still waiting for a decent version of Windows.....
In the meantime, I am still waiting for a decent version of Windows.....
Check out Shapeways over 30,000 items design by individuals from around the world to be 3D printed..
I have a way to click on an image in my computer and make it appear....it's called Amazon.com! No printer needed. You are going to replicate a bridge? really. You think ink is expensive now? Just wait!
I browsed through those 30,000 designs and can't find one to print an Angelina Jolie clone?
Ed,
Were you not paying attention? 3D printing, also called Rapid Prototyping, has been around for many years now.
click:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_prototyping
As a matter of fact, RP is so advanced that the NASA mission to Mars will have an RP machine on board so during the year-long mission parts can be made as needed.
Were you not paying attention? 3D printing, also called Rapid Prototyping, has been around for many years now.
click:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_prototyping
As a matter of fact, RP is so advanced that the NASA mission to Mars will have an RP machine on board so during the year-long mission parts can be made as needed.
... working models of anything. The copyright issues will be no different than xeroxing design specs and selling them to the highest bidder.
The Xerox machine created fears in the 1960's and BetaMAX did so in the 1970's. In the 1980's, it was CDs and in the 1990's it was MP3s. Today, it is peer-to-peer.
In the end, there will always be a certain amount of industrial espionage and and a certain amount of piracy - vendors learn to use the technology to their advantage - or they die.
The Xerox machine created fears in the 1960's and BetaMAX did so in the 1970's. In the 1980's, it was CDs and in the 1990's it was MP3s. Today, it is peer-to-peer.
In the end, there will always be a certain amount of industrial espionage and and a certain amount of piracy - vendors learn to use the technology to their advantage - or they die.
http://www.makerbot.com/
Jay Leno has a commercial-grade 3D printer he uses to fabricate vintage car parts
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/jay-leno/technology/4320759
Jay Leno has a commercial-grade 3D printer he uses to fabricate vintage car parts
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/jay-leno/technology/4320759
...for his head and especially his chin!
I thought there was an article about China using quantum mechanics to "teleport" small objects up to ten miles. Can someone confirm this?
Those "objects" are just a few atoms clumped together. And the distance is more like 10 inches.
That tech is still a long way off, but it is exciting.
That tech is still a long way off, but it is exciting.
... and the largest thing transported so far is a "photon". The largest things "entanlged" so far are two very small synthetic diamonds and they were not transported anywhere.
This technology is still probably a century or more away. We have no idea if a living thing could even be teleported and survive. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle gets in the way.
This technology is still probably a century or more away. We have no idea if a living thing could even be teleported and survive. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle gets in the way.
You know when Michelle gets hold of the controls she is not going to let you replicate junk food, unless you are a member of congress, they have exceptions...for life. Must be nice.
Go to www.wimp.com and enter printer in the search box. This one and a few others are there to see in action.
http://www.wimp.com/printerlegos/
http://www.wimp.com/printerlegos/
What is this irrational phobia people have with wires?
1. A wireless charging pad, like touchstone, sits there just beaming energy out into the ether, only some of which will be caught and inefficiently converted to battery charge. I don't want to hear ANY more nagging about phantom power draw, or unplugging my charger when my phone is fully charged, while people are at the same time pushing wasteful, gee-whiz things like wireless charging.
2. Wireless data. After all the confusion about which of the several incrementally less-insecure WiFi protocols we should be using, and the threat of Bluejacking, why would I want to be beaming my data out into the ether either? It's a lot harder for someone to tap into a copper wire between devices without detection.
1. A wireless charging pad, like touchstone, sits there just beaming energy out into the ether, only some of which will be caught and inefficiently converted to battery charge. I don't want to hear ANY more nagging about phantom power draw, or unplugging my charger when my phone is fully charged, while people are at the same time pushing wasteful, gee-whiz things like wireless charging.
2. Wireless data. After all the confusion about which of the several incrementally less-insecure WiFi protocols we should be using, and the threat of Bluejacking, why would I want to be beaming my data out into the ether either? It's a lot harder for someone to tap into a copper wire between devices without detection.
Every device requires a different wire and they are easy to loose. I'm convinced that when my daughter moves out we're going to find around 20 micro USB cables.
What's the difference that one is standardized over the other? If you can't keep track of a cable (or your other shoe), you aren't likely to be doing much better with the wireless charger/dock, are you?
Oh, I forgot - Consumerism. That's what it is. Artificial conveniences.
Oh, I forgot - Consumerism. That's what it is. Artificial conveniences.
Read Your Post And Nearly Fell Out Of My Chair!!! And got me thinking.
How many kids do you have?
I'm already finding extra (and extra-extra ...) connection cables.
How many kids do you have?
I'm already finding extra (and extra-extra ...) connection cables.
As someone who travels a lot I carry multiple devices that need chargers and cables. Laptop, tablet, camera x 2, smartphone, At the moment I carry a charger and adapter cable for each device. Some will use a USB charger, although each needs a different style of adapter, so i can economise there.
But what I really need is a charger that can plug into any electrical socket and charge all devices simultaneously, not one at a time. It needs to be compact also.
And as others have said, wireless is wasteful of electricity and I will not advocate for deliberate energy waste.
But what I really need is a charger that can plug into any electrical socket and charge all devices simultaneously, not one at a time. It needs to be compact also.
And as others have said, wireless is wasteful of electricity and I will not advocate for deliberate energy waste.
I have no idea how this touchstone is implemented. But there's no fictional technology required to make a wireless charger that only beams when a receiving device is present. A pressure switch + wireless communication would even allow the receiving device to turn off the power source when it's fully charged. And power transfer efficiency is reachable, too...though maybe a few years away. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/wireless-0607.html has the story about an MIT group that lit a 60W light bulb wirelessly using something like a directed energy wave with a harmonically-tuned receiver.
Just for you, we'll all just stay where we are when it comes to the advancement of technology shall we?
What you are suggesting is that just because of a few security errors, bugs, and potential risks that we should all just stick to wires. Okay! And when that new game comes out we should all just stick to mario because you don't run into any glitches, and we should all have a nokia 3410.
What you're missing is the reason we advance when it comes to things like this.
The internet is getting bigger and bigger and we want it too keep growing.
Wireless is around so we can access the internet where ever we are, if i wanted too i could go upstairs right now in my office building and connect to the server wirelessly. Thanks to wireless connection while i am on my way home i can turn off the servers i forgot to turn off.
Or we could go with your idea and creat a massive cable i can use that follows me back home, or i can waste petrol and time to make my way back just so i can flip a switch, OR! I can leave it and waste electricity. At the moment the whole wireless transfer idea is still in "beta" if you like. Just like the internet when we could only download at 2kb per second. As a matter of fact it's still in a testing phase theoretically, the reason you get people nagging is because they're all asking questions. What is wrong? why is it doing that. but if no one asked the question no one would answer it and thus we'd all be stuck with security risks, a basic 52k modem and dreadful sound when we try to connect to the internet.
I am not saying you're wrong here. I agree things pose a security risk, there's ALWAYS a way around things, but technology is moving much too fast for it to mature, this is a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing is that in our lifetime we'll probably see things we never thought was imaginable. The downside is that everything we do see before we move onto the next will be at its worst.
my point is when these things come out they'll be glitchy, hard to work with, full of errors and security risks that we all love so much ;D
but when we go past that phase and move onto the next big glitchy, buggy thing the previous thing will have been improved.
What you are suggesting is that just because of a few security errors, bugs, and potential risks that we should all just stick to wires. Okay! And when that new game comes out we should all just stick to mario because you don't run into any glitches, and we should all have a nokia 3410.
What you're missing is the reason we advance when it comes to things like this.
The internet is getting bigger and bigger and we want it too keep growing.
Wireless is around so we can access the internet where ever we are, if i wanted too i could go upstairs right now in my office building and connect to the server wirelessly. Thanks to wireless connection while i am on my way home i can turn off the servers i forgot to turn off.
Or we could go with your idea and creat a massive cable i can use that follows me back home, or i can waste petrol and time to make my way back just so i can flip a switch, OR! I can leave it and waste electricity. At the moment the whole wireless transfer idea is still in "beta" if you like. Just like the internet when we could only download at 2kb per second. As a matter of fact it's still in a testing phase theoretically, the reason you get people nagging is because they're all asking questions. What is wrong? why is it doing that. but if no one asked the question no one would answer it and thus we'd all be stuck with security risks, a basic 52k modem and dreadful sound when we try to connect to the internet.
I am not saying you're wrong here. I agree things pose a security risk, there's ALWAYS a way around things, but technology is moving much too fast for it to mature, this is a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing is that in our lifetime we'll probably see things we never thought was imaginable. The downside is that everything we do see before we move onto the next will be at its worst.
my point is when these things come out they'll be glitchy, hard to work with, full of errors and security risks that we all love so much ;D
but when we go past that phase and move onto the next big glitchy, buggy thing the previous thing will have been improved.
There are so many things we can do today that weren't possible even 30 years ago.
But just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you SHOULD do it.
But just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you SHOULD do it.
We could do a few things 30 years ago you'd be hard pressed to do today. Like buy gasoline for under a buck a gallon. I bet you'd give up a lot of the crap you can do today for that huh? Traffic jams weren't as big, places weren't as crowded, and the people you met looked better too. Believe me if I could go back I'd leave a boot mark on your back getting there.
Move to the Middle East.
I'll not only step out of your way, I'll help you onto the plane.
I'll not only step out of your way, I'll help you onto the plane.
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