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I may be wrong but i thought that the main thing holding up the 3d printing revolution, was the long wait for the relevant patents to expire.
by _nedR 10y ago
I may be wrong but i thought that the main thing holding up the 3d printing revolution, was the long wait for the relevant patents to expire.
- cperciva 10y agoThat may be one factor, but it seems like there's new technology for 3d printing announced every few months; I'm sure there is innovation happening and it's not just people sitting on their hands and waiting for the patents to expire.
- _nedR 10y agoAgain i am not intimately familiar with 3d printing technology, but the timing of at least some of those announcements might be due to expiration of relevant patents, rather than the invention of new technology. https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/15/how-expiring-patents-are-ushering-in-the-next-generation-of-3d-printing/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/15/how-expiring-patents-are-u...