What would you print with a 3D printer?

"What is perhaps more interesting than the 4 new Konica Minolta cameras announced today is the rapid product cycle that seems to have been established by both Konica Minolta and other manufacturers." Rather than the yearly model updates that people have come to expect, the article notes that three members of this batch aren't even a year old, and one is only six months.

I bet things will continue to accelerate on that front, from six months to 3 months, to, who knows, a couple weeks or days.

Since CAD models get physical with 3D printing (they can print cell phones) I bet when those printers will get affordable (they are like 30 000$ now)companies will be ready to offer subscription services to upgrade some of their old models. You pay, they mail you the upgrade code.
It will be a fertile ground for the open source community, and pirates too.

on dog stomach transplant: that would be a safe way to revive antique cynical gastronomy (nobody wants to die choking on a raw squid!)

I'm sure I read that too - wasn't it in the Guardian?

Anyway, I'd mostly print sex toys. Dildos and buttplugs are probably ideal for 3d-printer-production.

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some are printing 3d printers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMhG4fWQnlE

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that'd be a bit too easy

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Daleks

I'd probably print a flatscreen television and something 3d like a kickboxer to sit in the screen tbh

got that from reddit:
"The Pirate Bay opens up a new category called Physibles, download real objects to print out in physical space [download a car, will you?]"

http://thepiratebay.org/blog/203

We had a lunch presentation the other day from a company here in Chicago that prints out 3D models of buildings and facades from Revit and SketchUp models. Pretty cool, but expensive as hell.

some post regarding the deletion of a printable gun on tpb:

"I also posted this to /some board. They pointed out that while it is posible to have a AR-15 made out of plastic, plastic would not work for parts like the barrel. People need to realize that this is still a budding new technology. There are already 3d printers that can print in metal at a high enough quality to make rifled barrels. These printers are massively expensive. Just like computers were once massively expensive. We are looking at the future here. 3d printing will have a massive social impact. Focusing on weapons for a sec. This tech will drive gun runners out of business. Now all an armed resistance will need is a 3d printer and a network connection. Why can oppressive governments be so brutal to their own people? Because the government in those places has guns and the people do not. This will change that."

i would buy a 3d model of myself:

http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/11/dezeen_Omote-3D-photo-booth_8.jpg
http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/11/dezeen_Omote-3D-photo-booth_7.jpg

they come in 10cm, 15cm and 20cm.

http://www.dezeen.com/2012/11/23/omote-3d-printing-photo-booth-shashinkan-by-party/

amazing?!

Can't believe nobody answered "Klondike bars." Has advertising, at long last, come to nothing?

3d printing is killing music

http://dummymag.com/news/2012/12/21/printers-have-become-so-high-tech-they-can-print-vinyl/

I've been waiting to see that article for a few years now. So cool it's finally here.

My friend had a coffee cup made w a digitized 3D scan of her face on it and it's pretty damn cool. That's probably the first thing i'd do. Then print vinyl of course.

This 3d printing stuff is going to change EVERYTHING. Maybe Kurzweilian Singularity is alot of nonsense but this definitely seems like a step in that direction.

The way the internet sort of destroys cultural barriers / country borders / democratizes speech / etc. 3d printers will go a long way towards putting the final nail in the coffin of 'private property'. We will be living in a global futuristic communist paradise.

"MX3D-Metal can print lines of steel, stainless steel, aluminum, bronze or copper in mid-air."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFF0QQIQDXE