U.S. companies this year will allow three-dimensional printer to enter the home, the mouse can sandals toothbrush at home DIY
According to British newspaper “Independent” reported on 9, with a toothbrush travel forget it? It does not matter, as long as a push-button at the printer, you can print out a toothbrush. It sounds like science fiction, but this can be virtual objects into real printer model has been developed out.
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Insiders said that this principle of operation of three-dimensional printers and traditional printers are very similar, with a melt nylon powder, halogen, but also has the technology to allow consumers to download the pattern, can manufacture from toothbrushes to sandals, mouse, etc. Many household items.
Print out the model from head to toe by a layer of thin film, its main raw material of plastic ABC, which has a mixture of aluminum and glass. Once the heating of raw materials can become a hard object.
Cornell University Professor He Deli Simpson is three-dimensional printer program manager, said: “Soon, everyone can have one at home, this printer. By the time you can print out the toothbrush , forks and shoes. ”
It is reported that this printer is used in the past decade, industrial design, also dentists, architects and even the military is widely used. In the manufacture of the product before, the staff use them to test designs. However, this machine is very expensive, each about 10 million (approximately £ 50,000). In recent years, the price dropped to about 1.5 million.
Prices into the family
Recently, California’s “creative laboratory” announced that this year will be $ 4,995 selling price of a three-dimensional printer. Bill Gross, chairman of the “New York Times” said that the price of the printer four years is expected to drop $ 1,000, “We only $ 300 based engineering materials can produce a three-dimensional printer . ”
For the printer market prospects, Gross also confident that “in the laser printer is also up to $ 5,000 a time, no one think they need it, although 3D printer market prospects may not be as laser printing the printer, but I believe to be asked is certainly enormous.
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