Interesting piece in Wired about 3D printers – machines which spew out actual objects according to a set of data.

These 3D printers are currently enormously expensive ($20,000+) and can only produce objects of a certain size and type. The 3D file sizes are also huge – many gigabytes – but it’s interesting that increasingly everything essentially can be represented by data.

And of course once it’s data, it can be shared. If music was the first to go, now being followed by film and TV – will objects be next to feel the PirateBay effect?

Will you be able to download the next Ikea range made for you at ProntaPrint?

Will it all be user-generated mugs in 2010?

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