3D Printing For Everyone

Posted by kdawson on Friday August 1, 2008 @02:16AM from the rapid-prototyping-as-a-service dept.

mmacx writes "Technology Review has up an article about Shapeways, a new online rapid-prototyping service that allows users to upload digital designs which are then printed on 3-D printers and shipped back. A spinoff from Philips Research, the service gives small businesses, designers, artists, and hobbyists access to prototyping tools that were once available only to the largest corporations. The fee for a typical printed object is $50-$150. Their video shows the steps behind the process." We've been talking about 3D printing for years.

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Only 3 dimensions? by techess · 2008-08-01 02:30 · Score: 5, Funny

Great there goes my plans of printing tesseracts.

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You can't patent something.... by snspdaarf · 2008-08-01 02:30 · Score: 5, Funny

...in the pubic domain!

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