Corey Harris, Please Call Your Lawyer

[buffcoat]

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

[Josh]

Those have been around for awhile, which doesn't make them any less cool.

[Martin]

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.