3D printing was really cool when it was just wax or plastic. This moves it to the next level:
The future of fabrication is here: Shapeways announces stainless steel printing
Sure you’re not going to make a Hatori Hanzo sword — yet — but Shapeways, a 3D fabrication service, has just announced stainless steel printing, allowing you to make steel objects as easily as you would made resin or plastic prototypes. That’s right: something that took our ancient ancestors generations to perfect is now available to anyone with a CAD/CAM program and some Red Bull.
All-purpose material replication is still a long way down the road, but it’s closer . . . it is cool to be living in the future.
H/T to Virginia Postrel.
