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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: buffcoat on October 03, 2007, 04:24:45 PM
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Q. How did you come up with the idea for Desktop Factory?
Desktop Factory is a 3-D printer - a device that takes a drawing from a graphics program and, rather than producing a piece of paper, outputs a physical object. It actually grows an object out of plastic. This is unbelievable. You can go from concept visualization to having a physical part in your hand in an hour. We have a 3-D printer for our own rapid prototyping at Idealab. It's amazing technology, but it costs between $50,000 and $500,000.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/25/news/companies/Startupking.biz2/index.htm
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Those (http://www.inition.co.uk/inition/product.php?URL_=product_rapid_3dsystems_invision&SubCatID_=0) have been around for awhile, which doesn't make them (http://www.zcorp.com/Products/3D-Printers/spage.aspx) any less cool (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printing).
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Yeah, I watched one in action at CeBit in 2000. Pretty astonishing stuff, still - parts of me don't want to acknowledge it as science, but rather science fiction, it's that nuts.