Lew, let’s just hope that the Big IP protectionist interests in bed with state don’t succeed in using copyright and patent to kill this emerging 3D printing technology — see Paramount Cease and Desist Targets 3D Printer ‘Pirate’; White paper on 3D printing and the law: the coming copyfight; The next Napster? Copyright questions as 3D printing comes of age. (Patents are also posing a big threat to the Android smartphone platform and apparently helped kill SED TV a few years ago.)
UPDATE: Fab@Home: The open source personal fabricator project; and RepRap: Free 3D Desktop Printer (h/t David Kramer).
9:24 am on July 9, 2011
