Print Your Own Food?

3D printing, or what is known in the engineering community as rapid prototyping, is according to the video, on the edge of reaching the all important consumer market. These machines used to be so expensive that only engineering production firms own them, and they usually just outsource it as these machines are.... expensive. Well, these guys at 3D Systems are looking to bring them into your homes. And at first, you wonder, what the heck am I going to do with it? Well, same thing you could have said with the IPad, what the heck am I going to do with it? And then you realise what things you can do with it.

Even if it doesn't find its way into every consumer's home, I would believe that schools would find this pretty useful. Or maybe there wouldn't be so much printing required that every home needs one, but printing centres can spring up to cater to those who want to print something, the way we used to bring our film into processing centres to be developed.

Is 3D printing in our future?