Let me start with a full disclosure here - I was unaware of the research that I am going to be covering today until I saw a wonderful video produced by Veritasium. It can be viewed here.

As many of you already know, we are entering a vastly different era of prototyping and technological development. This is the era of 3D printing. 

Just a decade ago, inventors and start up companies had to invest in tools and machinery, and in workers who had training in a number of fields of machining and manu...
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