Last year at the Microsoft Christmas party, I sat at the Microsoft office with about 50 other extreme geeks playing board games and making christmas ornaments with a 3D printer with Microsoft's infamous Bill Steele (@wjsteele on twitter).
For those of you that are not familiar with 3D printers, it is a cube shaped machine about a foot square. you insert tubes of hard plastic and it melts it down and molds it into whatever you tell it to based on your specs you have specified on your computer. It's more amusing than it sounds when you see it in person. The idea for all 3D printer geeks is that there will be a 3D printer in every home - when you need something that can be made out of plastic (toys, ornaments, child safety locks, etc.) - you can make it yourself instead of having to run out and buy it.
Sounds far fetched - but it is something to look forward to. Cubify just announced a line of 3D robots they are selling that were printed via 3D printer. I plan on buying all of them for my personal amusement. I'm thinking I can have my own personal Rock'em Sock'em while I am on these long, boring conference calls.
You can see them here:
http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/cubify-announces-line-of-3d-printed-toy-robots-20120810/
Here is a video with Bill demonstrating how the 3D printers work and where to get them:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/HanselminutesOn9/Hanselminutes-on-9-Bill-Steele-talks-about-3D-Printing-with-Makerbot-Replicators-and-more
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