– 3D-Modelle & 3D-Drucker –

If a desktop 3D printer is the ancestor of Star Trek’s replicator, then, the way I see it, is that a 3D scanner is the ancestor of the transporter, the machine that allows people to be transported as a stream of particles at light speed from one place to another in the Star Trek universe. A scanner can capture a physical object and transport it into the virtual world for it to be reassembled into physical reality somewhere else. It has taken some time, but 3D scanner prices are coming down, 3D scanning times are speeding up and the possible uses, coupled with 3D printing, are multiplying.
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