That is interesting. Thank you. I found this whole thread very exciting, I as down-voted into oblivion very quickly so I stopped sharing my thoughts but my min

That is interesting. Thank you. I found this whole thread very exciting, I as down-voted into oblivion very quickly so I stopped sharing my thoughts but my mind ran on for a while... Self-healing machines, buildings and devices also sprang to mind. Basically, if the printer is small enough to be a part of the object and there were a way of determining what it needs to print then the object need never be broken (for very long) in fact: the object doesn't even need to be defined as a cup, a pair of trousers, a bicycle. If the printer can embed itself into anything it prints then it could literally morph according to a given requirement. ...I'll stop now.