I'd print myself a few Cans... =) Yeah ATF, I said it!

And to think, I still have a heck of a time installing the old fashioned HP printers and getting them to work properly. I cannot imagine what the errors would be on a 3D printer- Paper jam=Steel Jam, Out of Ink = Out of Carbon Fiber, etc. Dang!

I am having the strangest case of deja vu as I read the OP.

It had to be a year ago or so that I was listening to a Coast to Coast program in which the guest was talking about the future and how we had the technology to create matter from a print type of device. How it would put an end to hunger around the globe.

I want to say it was an old interview with a former Military person and the subject was remote viewing. I could be way way off base about the specific interview, but I vividly recall the whole "create matter from a printer" discussion.

There will be a huge black market for illegal blue prints once these 3D printers are common place.
I've never wanted a gun before, but a 3D printed gun sounds so cool, maybe I'd get one or two. (or three).
Got to be prepared for the zombie apocalypse after all...

never mind guns, just think of the money you could make with tie ins to books/movies like plastic cucumbers for 50 shades of grey readers or fake vampire teeth for twilight fans

and actually its probably very environmentally friendly since you'll be able to print out a replacement part for something rather than possibly throwing it away all for a few pence item

Ugh - This would be so cool until you realize that you'll end up spending a fortune on carbon filter replacement cartridges!!

Still, I bet criminal organizations will make plastic guns that have a short life span (overheat chamber) to commit robberies/murders/hits. They will still need real bullets because those basically contain gunpowder.

Make your own video game controller. Nice.

This is entirely crazy (to some point)....also thinking about that one major protection mechanism today is having someone go through a METAL DETECTOR.

Short: Every terrorist can make a weapon and then even be able to go through security with them easily. This is...really scary.

Originally posted by rickymouse
So now everyone will be out of work, replaced by technology. Soon they will be able to build computerized robots to make programers obsolete. How are they going to sell these things if there is noone to buy them? I suppose this is in preparation of reducing humans from seven billion down to 500 million people. Oh well, that's life.

The only reason anyone needs to work is to pay property taxes.

Everything else can be grown, created, bartered for.

The only thing a man cannot make on his own is government issued currency to pay government mandated taxes.

Instead of crying about jobs we should ask ourselves why we have to have jobs in the first place.

My only job should be working my plot of land and caring for my chickens. Try paying property taxes with a bushel of corn and a few dozen eggs.

Money is a trap and taxation prevents any escape.

Very interesting. I'm a bit suspicious of him printing a working gun though, considering the materials and mechanics involved I wouldn't think it possible, maybe it is?

Anyway, even if these printers became common place (which they can't in a long time still-think about the costs involved with even one of these), we will still require the materials to print with, and they will need to be in the correct format, as in, I doubt you can feed it steel nails etc.

But there will definately be pirating of blueprints in the future.

EDIT: Its only a news article on Slashgear with a photo of a standard gun. No pictures of the printer, no technical details, no video... Maybe its a fake article?

and next thing that will come is the new 3D all in ones.
scan and print.
that's when it will really take off
no prints needed.

Originally posted by jude11
My laserjet won't do that no matter how many times I've tried...

I WANT ONE!

And then I'm gonna make me a Harley and a boat and a house and a plane...

Nice find. Very cool.

SnF

Peace

Ha ha you sound like a kid at christmas!,the possibilities are endless though can you imagine having one of these printers in your house?with kids around?who knows they may print out the boogyman!...son how many time have I told you to quit printing girlfriends?

And AGAIN i´ll aks:

How MUCH do you/i pay for
rawmaterial????


And i would like to see a private HIGH END 3D scanner!
That you could conect to the printer..

Scan an object in 3d, print it a minute later..