3D printing State of the Union

    I am always checking with the vehicle of 3d printing as a whole everything can look shiny on the outside. New areas, new innovations and mergers. Their was even a glancing mention of it in the State of the Union Tuesday night. That's not the pinnacle of 2014, right?

   I noticed a glaring deficiency in the amount of academic grants pushing the industry forward. Corporate innovation and Maker innovation are great but they only lead to profit and hobby. Government funding (not in an auto industry) but rather in an emphasis to stimulation one area that will not be receiving that emphasis is the 3D printing of organs. Legislation is in the works is in the works that could ban this activity by 2016. I am not sure of the legal difference
between cloning, stem cell research and 3D printed organs in the United States, but your best bet is to look overseas for innovation in these cases. Academic grants should be used as guides before legislation is necessary.

Leap Forward

   So I have an admission. I have been using Leap Motion and it's good but it's also early. I am still experimenting with it as basically a go between for 3d scans and a 3d printer the ultimate goal is to be able to manipulate and adjust 3d scan to modify and possibly even correct design. There are paid autocad apps available in the airspace store. I do not think there is a competitive advantage yet but when it comes to a 3d space the mouse and keyboard is an outdated tool.

  3d fashion for fingernails, still missing from 50% of population. I don't know whether it will encourage the male sex to adopt fingernail art but there are textures that acrylics cannot replicate.

And now we wait

     After CES there is usually a slow down as far as the news is concerned because the industry titans have met all their deadlines as far as technology is concerned. So we wait pontificate as an audience to this industry to see where it takes us next. Early adopters give their views and bugs and kinks are worked out. So is the life cycle of a burgeoning industry. Borders are redrawn and expansion or contraction begins again.

    The Smithsonian may aid in shortening this cycle as they are making their extensive library of 3d scans available to schools. This would allow history, literature and music (mainly the arts) Grow in a physical way to adaptive young minds. Jumping into museums and libraries on a permanent basis would lead to a strong foothold and change the landscape of libraries which could use some help as they transform from analog to digital.