Posted by masseur
VersaLaser™ can transform images or drawings on your computer screen into real items made out of an amazing variety of materials… wood, plastic, fabric, paper, glass, leather, stone, ceramic, rubber… and it’s as easy to use as your printer.
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This is amazing!
Posted by kimcheeboi
Gotta get me one of those! Wonder how much it'll cost? :lol:
Posted by masseur
apparantly these first generation units are around $10,000 so start saving your pennies
Posted by kimcheeboi
Nah it's pocket change :-).
Posted by gelfen
damn, left my wallet in my other pants
but if i draw a star trek matter transporter does that mean this thing will create a real one? i don't think so.
Posted by masseur
well I just think the whole conecpt is fantastic and out of the future and almost certainly in a few years time, like all technology, the price will become more reasonable. I'm just blown away by this one
Posted by gelfen
there's no doubt it's a pretty nifty device. in all seriousness though, you can probably expect that one day this type of device(albeit a more advanced version) will be used to make working products.
EDIT: if you watch the video, it's actually a laser cutter/etcher so it's still more or less 2D, and not dissimilar from industrial units, so perhaps not such a HUGE leap in technology. making it run from a desktop is a pretty fair achievement though. IMO the real advance is in the innovation rather than the invention.
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[ This Message was edited by: gelfen on 2004-04-30 07:26 ]
Posted by kimcheeboi
If i was 10 years younger and had 10 grand to blow i'd buy this. Imagine all the projects this thing would have done for me! ;-)
Posted by bahbahsupercar
What about that new Teleporting device, it lets you move from one place to the other instantly, I have seen people use them on the telly and in a series of spin off films. it looks great, i want one.
Posted by batesie
WOW! massuer can you lend me 10 grand?