Personal electronics' next revolution: Home printers that make 3-D objects
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 14:31
in Mathematics & Economics
Just imagine: Instead of sending Grandma a holiday photo of the family for her fridge, you call up the image on your computer monitor, click "print," and your printer produces a three-dimensional plastic model ready for hanging on the holiday tree. Scenes like that in which homes have 3-D printers that build solid objects on demand are fast approaching reality, according to the cover story in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News, the American Chemical Society's weekly newsmagazine.