Desktop Manufacturing
Small Times is reporting that advances in rapid prototyping are bringing the idea of desktop manufacturing to reality.
Imagine your kitchen blender conks out the day you’re hosting a large cocktail party. You search an online catalog, decide on a model, and click the “buy” button. But instead of waiting three days for the appliance to be shipped to your door, a new kind of printer on your desk springs into action. Layer by layer, the miraculous machine squirts out various materials to form the chassis, the electronics, the motors – literally building the blender for you from the bottom up in a matter of hours.
This will revolutionize the most profitable sector of the internet economy: online pornography
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...and it's all plastics, I
...and it's all plastics, I gather?
Great... the low cost of Japanese electronics combined with the durability of Chinese electronics.
Where do I sign up?