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This gets me thinking about the possibilities. Lets leave medical science to the doctors as they are far more adept at it, but I must tell you that the Inkjets used here were really not too different from the printers we buy for our computing needs.

Imagine the speed and cost cutting that hardware designers could achieve if 3D modelling became feasible and commercially available. Say you wanted to design a gaming wheel, or indeed a whole car. You won’t have to sit with a model shop representative creating scaled models using foam or other applications. All you would have to is design the product of your choice using AutoCAD or whatever 3D modeling software catches your fancy and hit print. The printer will then proceed to build an exact replica of whatever you designed.

This gives the designer a lot more control over the way 3D models get created, and it saves time and finances for companies, which they can pass on to their customers (alright, they probably won’t but I have the right to dream, don’t I?).

Tomorrow, if we really get the concept of cloning and duplicating cells, wouldn’t this technology make life easier (or not)? Imagine you want a 60watt bulb for your house. All you would have to do is feed 60watt and put in some broken glass; the printer will then proceed to print the bulb for you. This may be far fetched, but who knows?

Could we take cloning and Inkjet technology far enough to generate entire human beings? That would really cause uproar in some communities, but staying on the less controversial side, maybe I could print two 7800GTXs, a motherboard and an X2 CPU to build my latest and greatest PC. Oh well, maybe I really have lost my hat this time, but it would be an interesting technological development nonetheless.