3D Printing

3D printing has been a work in progress for many years, but it isn’t until recently that a lot of people have begun to understand it and see the potential. If someone had told me in my teen years that I might someday be able to print anything I wanted rather than buy, I wouldn’t have been able to get my head around it. Now, I finally understand how much can be achieved through 3D printing. You could create anything that you could possibly want.

3D printing revolutionises the way the world works. Imagine the amount of objects you purchase throughout your lifetime. Whatever you need, you buy already made. It used to only be possible to do this by going to the store, but the Internet made online shopping possible so that we now live in a world where you can buy anything and everything sitting on your couch at home. But imagine if you could just print a new version of that soap dish you broke the other day, or that iPhone cover or whatever else you wanted. It is being used for creating prosthetics, it was used in Skyfall to copy the Aston Martin DB5, and architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars has plans to create a whole building using 3D printing. It may even be used to help build organs in the future.

3D printing is the next big thing; everyone is talking about it and waiting to see where it goes. Even in a sitcom like the Big Bang Theory (yes, I’m a big fan), they incorporate 3D printing in their latest episode. Howard and Raj purchase a 3D printer so that they can make miniature dolls of themselves. I’m convinced that soon, most households will have their own 3D printer. I’m already saving up for mine, and will definitely be starting with a miniature doll that looks like me.