Amazon Wants to 3D Print Your Purchase in the Back of its Delivery Van
A newly discovered patent shows that Amazon has a vision of on-the-fly manufacturers. The Everything Store wants to 3D print your purchases right in the back of its delivery van.
A newly discovered patent shows that Amazon has a vision of on-the-fly manufacturers. The Everything Store wants to 3D print your purchases right in the back of its delivery van.
All hail the doll's house coffee tables! For they are sacred.
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Signalling failures would still mean you'd be late for your commute to Mars.
The same way it makes most things not suck by arriving to the party late and flustered yet cooler than everyone else?
It just...bends.
Not likely to be compatible with Samsung devices, we-thinks.
Apple and Bose seem to have stopped squabbling and the two will play nicely together again.
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And aeroplane seats. At some point in the future. Possibly.
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It seems the sort of thing ousted Scott Forstall would have pushed for.
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So now Samsung can't build its own giant-transparent-cube store.
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