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krispos42

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13. And the people making a mint...

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Mon Jan 23, 2012, 10:44 AM

Jan 2012

...will be the ones selling innovative sex-toy designs.

"Hon, I've downloaded Shane Diesel's prick design. Do you want anything special done to it before I hit 'Print'?"

"Could you make it bumpy?"

"Yeah, no problem. Gimme a few minutes to add them. You want a lot or a little?"

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The disruptive future of {3D} printing (BBC) [View all] eppur_se_muova Jan 2012 OP

The neat thing about rerap is that you only have to make one printer FSogol Jan 2012 #1

"Earl Gray, hot." HopeHoops Jan 2012 #2

Next up: tricorder scanners. silverweb Jan 2012 #7

"Dang - the tricorder found my penile implant!!!" HopeHoops Jan 2012 #8

I missed that episode. silverweb Jan 2012 #9

It was in the outtakes. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #10

Easy to imagine, though. silverweb Jan 2012 #11

"That's funny coming from a guy who had sex with every moon princess and Tirakian slave girl... HopeHoops Jan 2012 #12

I think I will make one Vincardog Jan 2012 #3

People are already releasing files that let you make gun parts. Jean V. Dubois Jan 2012 #4

I'm counting the days before the first really big ridiculous moral panic-fest over the things Posteritatis Jan 2012 #5

The patent and copyright implications alone will turn things on their heads. Occulus Jan 2012 #14

Yeah, the combination of that and the Think Of The Children freakouts will be .. interesting. (nt) Posteritatis Jan 2012 #15

Great for things made purely from cheap plastic muriel_volestrangler Jan 2012 #6

Actually, this general category works for metals too. originalpckelly Jan 2012 #16

And the people making a mint... krispos42 Jan 2012 #13

And there are 3D scanners too... originalpckelly Jan 2012 #17

Throughout the history of manufacturing... krispos42 Jan 2012 #18