Some upstart students at Cornell’s Computational Synthesis Lab have started a project called Fab@Home, which has designed a simple fabrication machine that can be built for about $2500.
Even though that sounds ridiculously expensive, commercial fabrication machines start in the tens of thousands, so the students think this could be the beginning of another home computing revolution. They could be right. Imagine being able to download new cell phone cases and print them out. Your kid broke his retainer? No problem, just print off another one. Not to mention the explosion in unique gear we’d see when people could create their own perfect widgets.
The project is still in the hard-core hobbyist stage, and it will be a long time before we see one of these in every home, but I think they’re going in the right direction. In fifteen years, I fully expect to see an Outlook worm that prints out a giant dildo when you open an email. You heard it here first.
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