We have been covering 3D printers since its news broke out a few months back. Videos of such a printer showed us some amazing models that can be reproduced at the comfort of our homes. Well, a home is just a general term that I use here. Currently, 3D printers are expensive costing an excess of few thousand pounds. Just like every other gadget, prices will fall in the near future. It would be hard to find a home without a 3D printer just like inkjets. LiveScience examines possible problems that could erupt when 3D printers become affordable.
If your favourite toy or a gadget breaks, one could easily replace it by getting hold of its 3D drawing and remanufacturing the same at home using a 3D printer. No need to order it from a store or have it shipped. Sounds amazing, isn’t it?
“If you can make what you need in your own home quickly, then manufacturers become designers, with no need for factories, warehouses or shipping,” Phil Anderson of the School of Theoretical and Applied Science at Ramapo College in New Jersey told LiveScience.
A rise in 3D printing could hit manufacturing units, shipping and other related functions causing unemployment of unimaginable sorts. This might be a great invention but might end up disrupting the economy; for bigger states especially.
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