Home 3D printers?
While decent quality 3D printers may become affordable are they really going to be worthwhile or cost effective to own?
Decent quality photo printers are affordable, but it works out a lot cheaper for me to use one of the many online services to print and deliver my photos than it does to buy and run my own photo printer and when I do want a photo printed there's very rarely any sort of rush so I'm happy to wait a few days.
Even if you can nip into PC World and pick up a 3D printer in a few years time I doubt most people will bother as it'll probably end up cheaper to do your 3D printing through an online service who wont touch anything that's obviously copyright (like the way most photo sites will avoid duplicating copyright photos).
This story does make me think of something you might see on thinkgeek, google or slashdot on April the 1st though.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
