Erase a CD like a boss (video) Amazon.co. 3-D printers, or plastic extrusion machines that can make produc. Jay Leno holds a starter switch bezel for a 1956 Packard Caribbean in his… (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles…) Home computer printers gave people the ability to produce bank statements, concert tickets, holiday cards and party invitations at the touch of a button. But what if you wanted to "print out" a dinner plate, the leg of an armchair or an eyeglass frame? It may sound far-fetched and futuristic, but plastic extrusion machines that can do this — popularly known as 3-D printers — are poised to enter the home electronics market. "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno has an industrial version in the warehouse-sized Burbank garage that houses his collection of more than 200 cars and motorcycles. His mechanics design hard-to-find parts on a laptop computer and then use the machine to make them real. "It's a bit like when I was a kid and I watched "The Jetsons" and they'd walk up to a machine and press a button and get a steak dinner with the baked potato sitting next to it," Leno said.
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