Tech to look out for in 2012
Phil Lelyveld
Entertainment Technology Center
[BBC News]
…The Consumer Electronics Show starts in Las Vegas next week -…
TV and the internet get married
New User Interfaces
3D Printing
It’s difficult to exaggerate the excitement in geeky circles about 3D printers, simple machines that allow anyone to take a digital design and manufacture all manner of objects from their kitchen table. There is heady talk of a new industrial revolution and the total personalisation of consumer goods, as 3D printing becomes ever more affordable.
I’m hoping that the Consumer Electronics Show will give us some evidence of whether this is a phenomenon with quite as much potential as its backers claim. If it is, there should soon be 3D printers from major manufacturers at your local electronics store. And, as they can reproduce themselves, we could be knee deep in them by 2013.
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See the full story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16390997
