The Cube 3D printer could help you print your own toy shop
With a whir and a click the job is done. In the space of 20 minutes a plastic bottle opener has been constructed by the Replicator - a 3D printing machine capable of making objects up to the size of a loaf of bread.
The device is made by the New York start-up Makerbot Industries and was launched this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.The newly-created bottle opener feels warm to the touch and has to be prised away from its base.
It has been created by using extrusion technology - a process in which a spindle of plastic thread is unravelled, melted and fed through a print head which draws the object layer by layer - in this case at a rate of 40mm per second.
3D printing is nothing new - engineers and designers have been using it for more than two decades to create prototypes.
What has changed is that the printers are now being pitched at consumers.
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