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Led by Auto, Medical and Aerospace, 3D Printing to Grow into $8.4 Billion Market in 2025. 3D printing rockets in popularity during 2012. Google Trends indicates how often a particular term is searched for relative to the total search-volume.

The term "3D printing" was coined by MIT grads Jim Bredt and Tim Anderson back in 1995 but it was not until 2011 that interest started to pick up and 2012 was the year that 'additive manufacturing' really captured the public’s imagination. The inaugural 3D Print Show in London, October, was phenomenally successful. The sell-out event was reported across the world and it will be followed by similar events in Paris and New York in 2013. During the trade day, over 1500 journalists and press pass holders watched a musical performance by a band only using 3D printed objects, visited a 3D printed art gallery and explored a large exhibition of bizarre objects. 2012 was also the year that 3D printing became ‘affordable’ as several desktop 3D printers were launched on the marketplace and serious attempts were made to simplify the design and printing process.

Will 3D Printing Go Mainstream? How Does 3D Printing Work, Anyway? [INFOGRAPHIC] Design a pair of shoes on your computer, hit "Print," and wear them an hour later.

If that kind of technology doesn't blow your mind, you're dead to me. Everyone's a Henry Ford. I've been showing you the benefits of 3D printing for some time now.

It's the technology that allows you to design custom parts and products on a computer... and then simply print them out. As Research & Development Magazine recently put it: While traditional paper printers use a moving toner cartridge head to form lines of text, adding row upon row of toner as the paper moves through the printer, 3D printing works much the same way. Instead of toner, however, a free-moving printer head precisely deposits layer upon layer of plastic or other material to create a solid object from the bottom up. Aircraft parts. You can design all these things and then print them out with a 3D printer. The technology has existed in its current form for about five years.

So are the related stocks... Here's how the two main plays I'm watching in the space have performed over the past three months (a timespan for which the Dow is negative): They're up between 40%-70% in just a couple of months. Going Hyperbolic. 3D Printing is the Fast Track to Innovation. 3D printing is the future of manufacturing - Kruse Kronicle. CHART: Readers predict 3D printing’s future. Todd Grimm posted on January 28, 2013 | Comment | 4036 views Strong, steady growth for the entire 3D printing industry is what our survey results show.

According to our readers, that growth will be driven by advances in materials, output quality, speed and overall performance. What they aren’t accepting are the extremes: no growth or explosive growth. Printing the Human Body - Infographic. Kyle.Maxey posted on January 25, 2013 | Comment | 3194 views Printing technology has come a long way in the 21st century, moving swiftly from two dimensional into the realm of 3D.

Furniture, cars, shoes, a replica of King Tutankhamun – these are all things that have been made with 3D printing technology. However, it doesn’t stop at material objects. In fact, using modified printer cartridges and extracted cells as the basis, scientists have discovered a way in which to print human tissue. While this amazing concept is still at an early stage, the future of bioprinting (as it’s commonly known) will allow for full organs and other human parts to be printed on demand for patients.

3D printing & the future of retail. Marc Andreessen recently made some bold statements about the future of the retail business: “Retail chains are a fundamentally implausible economic structure if there’s a viable alternative,” he says.

“You combine the fixed cost of real estate with inventory, and it puts every retailer in a highly leveraged position. Few can survive a decline of 20 to 30 percent in revenues. It just doesn’t make any sense for all this stuff to sit on shelves. There is fundamentally a better model.” I am not sure if I agree with this prediction of his. The death of music & video retail chains: instructive?

Picture the amount of capital and energy it took to create companies that stocked and sold CDs/rented DVDs. Having large amounts of physical infrastructure dedicated to running a supply chain of roughly identical pieces of plastic seems ripe for disruption. Big Box Stores I tend to associate “big box” stores with places I used to go to purchase music. 51st Fryday Poll - Should Drones Fly Commercially? Statistical Studies of Peer Production » Manufacturing in motion: first survey on 3D printing community.

By Jarkko Moilanen & Tere Vadén Another industrial revolution?

Yochai Benkler’s book is available online as PDF, HTML and many other formats Economists and theorists of innovation such as Jeremy Rifkin , Yochai Benkler, Michel Bauwens , and several others have concluded that the Third Industrial Revolution is at hand [3, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15]. Often the discussion around this topic refers to emerging new technologies such as clever software, novel materials, nanotechnology, more dexterous robots and new processes such as three-dimensional printing or the new wave of rapid manufacturing developed by the open source/hardware community, and the associated distributed ways of organising design and production.

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Who are the players? Where is the industry going? Will there be a legitimate marketplace or will pirated 3D printed goods emerge? It’s all here.