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3-D Printing: Revolutionary, or Just a Tool?

By Katherine P. Harvey
August 29, 2014
U-T San Diego

3-D Printing: Revolutionary, or Just a Tool?

By Katherine P. Harvey
August 29, 2014
U-T San Diego

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Never has it been easier for the average person to turn an idea into a physical reality, thanks to the rising number and types of 3-D printers, paired with their declining prices.

They are still a relatively niche technology, but aerospace engineers depend on them, artists share them, Home Depot is selling them and The UPS Store is letting entrepreneurs use them.

It's no wonder then that the machines, which can transform raw materials into designs that previously lived only in people's imaginations, also took center stage at the International Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year.

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It gives anyone, including consumers, the power to design and test their ideas quickly and inexpensively, they told a couple of dozen tech professionals gathered at Duane Morris. It also allows engineers to create designs they could never actually make with more traditional manufacturing capabilities.

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