EU sees industrial revival through 3D printing and biotech. Tue Oct 9, 2012 12:30am IST * EU paper promotes set of new technologies to boost GDP * Manufacturing job losses 3 million since crisis * Advanced manufacturing markets like biotech to double by 2015.
New Eindhoven. Clive Thompson on 3-D Printing's Legal Morass. Photo illustration: Andrew B.
Myers Last winter, Thomas Valenty bought a MakerBot — an inexpensive 3-D printer that lets you quickly create plastic objects. His brother had some Imperial Guards from the tabletop game Warhammer, so Valenty decided to design a couple of his own Warhammer-style figurines: a two-legged war mecha and a tank. He tweaked the designs for a week until he was happy.