3D Printing

http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-rise-of-the-3-d-printers
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/the-rise-of-the-3-d-printers/?ref=technology

These 3D printers are really exciting. I would love to get a chance to try one out. It seems like it offers so many new interesting creative opportunities and there are so many unexplored options of what one could do with these printers. In the NYT article it is also mentioned that there are open-source versions that go for as little as 650 dollars. While that is still very expensive of course, it is much more reasonable than what they can also go for, which can be as expensive as 20,000, so it is nice to see that the prices are going in the direction of being more reasonable and therefore making these printers accessible to more people. I am very curious to see the further development of what people do with this.