Fourteen 3D printers to choose from

Posted by Rob Beschizza, June 18, 2008 12:38 PM | permalink

As children, we read about a golden future of 3D xerox machines that would bring to life a barely-expressible future of universal fabrication.

As adult, we read things like "14 3D printers", and see that the future has become the mundane with no interstitial period of hands-on wonder. Chunks of milled beigeness? This isn't Earl Grey!

I do, however, love this example, which makes me think of a city of very happy skyscrapers in which they forgot to put in the roads.

14_3D Printers [Tim Pickup via Fabaloo and Makezine]

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#1 posted by technogeek , June 18, 2008 3:16 PM

... But they didn't mention CandyFab...

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#2 posted by Viadd , June 18, 2008 9:06 PM

It's a review of fewer than fourteen 3D printers. The 14 is just the page's node number. (The prev and next links are 13_StroMotion and 15_Poser to Rhino).

Still a good article.

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#3 posted by permafrost , June 19, 2008 1:49 AM

Yesterday's future is tomorrow's yesterday. Or such.

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#4 posted by kaiza , June 19, 2008 8:34 AM

In regards to rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing, I don't think the future is here quite yet.

I'm a product designer and my mind simply boggles when faced with the option of having zero manufacturing restraints on a product. Given time we'll get our heads around this, and that's when you'll see products that couldn't be made using current manufacturing processes.