How would you envision a future where you can 3D print your smartphone at home just after purchasing it? Voxel8, a company founded and run by several Harvard and MIT Professors, unveiled a developer kit for a 3D electronic-device printer shipping out in late 2015. With the kit, engineers and designers will be able to print drones, phones, and (RC) automobiles, all in one piece, with electronics built in. The printer uses a modular design to print both circuitry and plastic parts. Pre-orderers who want the first edition of the Developer kit will have to pony up $8999, plus shipping. This printer is important because this is your future. Eventually the price for circuit-printing printers will come down, and we will see electronics shops that print phones in the store, rather than buying them from a 3rd world sweat shop. I expect that within a decade average users may even be able to customize the shape and color of their phone to their liking.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:30:12 +0000
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