October 1, 2007

3D Printing: The Spime Arrives

by Piers Fawkes

3d printing

Core77 points us to a video by Bruce Sterling that presents a near future world where we buy items like furniture on the web and they’re made to order using 3D Printing. Throw in some smart Google Maps tracking and total-recycling and it starts making sense.

One thought that sparked while we watched the video was - why does the chair need to be made at some big distribution center somewhere? Why can’t we take the design we buy to a Kinkos and get the chair printed there?

The Spime Arrives

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4 Responses to “3D Printing: The Spime Arrives”

  1. Floyd Hayes
    Posted from: 68.161.244.192

    October 1st, 2007 at 1:20 pm

    Basically a less dramatic/exciting version of William Gibson ’s’Idoru’ from 2003.

  2. Farisr
    Posted from: 82.109.95.114

    October 2nd, 2007 at 7:03 am

    I wrote some thoughts about fabbing a few weeks back

    http://farisyakob.typepad.com/blog/2007/09/the-new-vitruvi.html

  3. Ben
    Posted from: 87.86.238.98

    October 3rd, 2007 at 4:30 am

    Have a look at the Absolut/Treehugger campaign - In An Absolut World. This is exactly what they are championing - but everybody has their own small machines at home, with larger ones available for public use - at Kinkos or such like.

    http://www.treehugger.com/absolut/2007/08/in_an_absolut_downloadable_wor.php

  4. Col³man Horn
    Posted from: 74.75.13.124

    October 10th, 2007 at 9:17 pm

    wait.. Isn’t it kinda this?

    http://www.ponoko.com/

    Coleman.

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