3D Printing

A couple of months ago, I marvelled at a new innovation referred to as 3D printing.  I won't go through the details of the blog entry or to describe the technology as it can be found in this entry: Caught with my Technological Shorts Down.  In this entry, I talk about one of the areas that I can see this being a very viable and valuable technology - that area being the medical industry.

Lo and behold, earlier this week, there was an article on PC World on exactly this topic:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/249359/3d_printers_now_print_human_body_parts.html. 

 An elderly lady had a very bad jaw infection and due to her age, they could not fix it in the traditional methods, so that scanned her existing lower jaw - all of it - and printed her a new jaw. 

This is just mind-blowing and the more that I read about this technology, the more that I believe that it has (and is!) revolutionizing our society.

The very scary thing is that I think that this is literally just the tip of the iceberg.