"3D printing has the potential to be pretty revolutionary. What’s your vision for the future? Right now we have a way of distributing and manufacturing products that is completely alien, compared to what people were doing 100 years back. We shop for things, often online, and we find the thing that most suits us. We order it. It was probably built very far away, and it ends up getting shipped to some other place and some other place and some other place before it comes to you. Well, it doesn’t have to be like that. You could just shop for something online, download a file, and print it out at home on your 3D printer."
- Tom Himpe
from Bookmarklet
Ok for small gadgets, but for a real thing, i.e. a tool, a piece of furniture, a spare part for a car etc... ?
- skylendar
Cool. With a little bit of work, I could create my own action figures. I could see a larger version being used to make patio furniture and certain car parts, such as the big plastic thing that houses the headlight unit on my car.
- Nathanael M. Christen
For real spare parts, you need steel, not plastic.
- skylendar
3d printing is available for steel/metal as a sintered metal using lasers to melt it into place on top of a piston which drops before the next layer is blown into the chamber. 3D printing is more real than nanotech. It is disruptive tech. You can print in thermoplastics and sculptural wax, (you can 3D scan with Open source software), you can email CAD file to 3Dprinteries who'll send it...
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- meika loofs samorzewski
All2gethernow: "Ultimately, the crisis in the music industry is a crisis of exploitation mechanisms, not of the music itself." - http://www.a-2-n.de/blog-en...
"Life after Popkomm: Entrepreneurs in Berlin established a non-profit association which sets up an innovative convention to focus on viable business solutions for the music industry. a2n - facts in english The traditional German music industry trade fair Popkomm, originally scheduled for 16-18th of September has been cancelled. Dieter Gorny, chairman of the Bundesverband der Musikindustrie (German Federal Association of the Music Industry), had announced the cancellation on the grounds that "many companies can no longer afford to participate in the Popkomm due to Internet piracy"."
- zeroinfluencer
from Bookmarklet
HOT! This is the kind of event I like to see! Too bad the dates, I can't go, but I'll watch out to attend to a possible 2010 edition!
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
Five technologies Iran is using to censor the Web Government uses both blunt and surgical tools to stifle dissidents, hacker says By Brad Reed , Network World , 07/20/2009
- Joi Ito
Interesting. On 21 Jul 2009, at 13:26, Ahsan Ali wrote:
- Joi Ito
from email
ill let you know when i get back to ATL.. i have an 80mbps down/40mbps up fiber connection at home there :-)
- Paul Stamatiou
i live in a tiny portion of midtown atlanta that has fiber running through it..but the area is, um, kinda ghetto. tradeoffs.. fortunately Georgia is pretty lax about handing out concealed carry firearms licenses
- Paul Stamatiou
That's not necessarily a good thing.
- Andrew Trinh
"This $6000 Colorware MacBook Pro isn't just impressive because of its price, it's impressive because it looks like what a real matte black MacBook Pro from Apple would look like. There are only ten available, and with each one costing $6000, you're probably not going to be one of the ten. So soak up the images and pretend that you can reasonably justify paying more than twice as much for a laptop just for it not to be so shiny and grey."
- vijay
from Bookmarklet
I wonder how many people will just spraypaint theirs?
- alphaxion
lol! I don't think I wanna spray-paint mine. It's just not the same thing.
- vijay
If you disassembled it carefully, sanded the case for a rough surface, painted it, then covered it with a matte finish, I wonder how close you could get.
- Andrew C (✓)
that sounds like a plan Andrew but the big question is will there be any takers? : )
- vijay
HA HA HA HA HA! A $6000 macbook pro? no thanks.
- Violet Mae Lim
I would be shocked if Colorware doesn't roll out a general matte black option soon.
- Andrew C (✓)
You do not mess with old man strength
- Will Higgins™
The judge said the punk 'got what he deserved'. GOD BLESS THE UK. Also the punk said he 'didn't remember what happened'. Of course he didn't, he got KNOCKED THE F*CK OUT.
- Will Higgins™
I imagine him standing over a bruised and bloody burglar saying "get off my lawn." The picture in my head is pretty epic.
- Aaron Hood
Sorry, I got a little excited by how awesome this story is. The guy kinda does look like Clint, doesn't he?
- Will Higgins™
A big virtual pat on the back there eh... :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
LOL Awesome! I wanna grow up to be just like him ;)
- Paul OFlaherty
This made me smile, how awesome this little fart got what he was due. How dare he pick on the elderly and how wonderful the elderly did rearranging some youthful behavior.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
He got 4 and 1/2 years in prison along with the beat down.
- Brent - Yes I am
That is why you finish the job here in the US and then place a pointy object in the assailants hand. More mess but less litigation. Odd how blind lady justice can be.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Mail: up to 2.3x faster. Safari: “4 has been in beta for a couple of months, today we’re shipping Safari 4 for Leopard, Tiger — and Windows. It offers unsurpassed speed… the scale is multiples of IE8’s speed.
içkiye hasretlik hımm..hapiste ya da askerde misin?bildiğim kadarıyla ileitşim yolları yasak olan ama yasağa rağmen en çok ileşim faaliyeti (sms,msn,internet, vb) gerçekleştirilen yerler oralar =)
- GeneratioN
danimarkadayım burada efes yok, var da zor =) şöyle bi deniz karşısına geçip içmekte yok, oradaki gibi değil işte!
- siniradam
Sorry if I've posted this b4 but just re-read! '10 Highly Effective Ways to Market like an Asshole', from AudibleHype http://www.audiblehype.com/diy...
"And just as the Web once emerged on top of the Internet, now something new is emerging on top of the Web: I call this the Stream. The Stream is what the Web is thinking and doing, right now. It’s our collective stream of consciousness. (...) Just as the Web is not any one particular site or service, the Stream is not any one site or service - it’s the collective movement that is taking place across them all."
- Iphigenie
Wondering how virtual worlds such as Second Life fit into this. As it is explained in the article, the web is not the internet, it developed on top of it. The Stream is developing on top of the Web, or.. on top of the Internet? (which would include parts of the internet which are not part of the web as such, like Second Life and other virtual environments).
- roland legrand
I see the games and virtual worlds as you do, using the internet infrastructure but not of Web or Stream. But their community does live in the web and stream. And since we are starting to see games that "sync" with the real world (sports games mostly, for now) so it is possible that in the future some virtual worlds will be in interaction with the stream, being a 3d world containing a...
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- Iphigenie
since we were talking about this I found this: http://minsh.net/ a fish aquarium virtual world over twitter. Perhaps a sign of things to come?
- Iphigenie
Very cool conversation :) Joelle, Roland you're invited to get your fish ;-)
- Jonathan Maïm
Hello Jonathan - some good filters you have, you appeared on my twitter and friendfeed very quickly. So what are your thoughts at per Roland's question about how it all can fit?
- Iphigenie
The renowned UK weekly The Economist just launched a new online debate on copyright and wrongs. The moderator, Kenneth Cukier, the magazine's Tokyo correspondent, started with this opening remark: "Copyright strangles creativity. Copyright rewards originality. It is a nuisance to the public that unduly enriches a few people. It is the backbone of our knowledge economy that fuels progress. Hate it, love it, break it, protect it; few people lack strong opinions about copyright and its place in society." In support of the initial motion ("existing copyright laws do more harm than good") we have Professor William Fisher (Harvard Law School), while Professor Justin Hughes (Cardozo Law School, New York) argues against it.
- Michel Bauwens