Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: 3-D printers-with the capacity to make three-dimensional solid objects from digital designs-have arrived.Home 3-D printers are already affordable (some are less than 1000), and, though these printers make mostly straightforward products, that's apt to change.A quick tour of the web reveals pictures of myriad "printed" objects, from the simple (a plastic vase 1 ), to the stunning (a bionic ear! 2 ), to the terrifying (an operational handgun dubbed "the Liberator" 3 ).Those within the industry have high hopes.Brook Drumm, the founder of one 3-D printing company, for example, envisions "a printer in every home." 4 The New York Times has predicted that 3-D printers will "become a part of our daily lives . . .much sooner than anyone anticipated."5 Even President Obama has embraced this
Author: Norma Freeman Engstrom
Institution: Stanford University
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W122665571