Technology in Businesses

The article I chose to write about was called “A 3-D Printer Created This Shoe” it was published on March 31, 2012 on CNN. It was about a new high-tech printer that can be purchased and used in homes for a reasonably low price of about $1,300. This printer is capable of creating real objects rather than paper documents. In the video they showed the printer creating a variety of household items. In addition to shoes, the creator shows it making children’s toys, figurines, and iPhone cases. This allows users to have easy access to items they would have needed to purchase in a store or online in the past. It also provides the most efficient and effective way of manufacturing these items, as it creates them layer by layer, wasting no materials. Generating these items layer by layer also allows a level of intricacy that would not be able to be achieved with similar hand-made items.
I think this technology is revolutionary on both a personal use and business use basis. This would be an amazing machine to have in a residential house to create items in a short amount of time that would otherwise need to be purchased out of the home. The convenience of being able to make items rather than travel to find them makes this machine perfect for older individuals who have difficulty leaving the home and are interested in making items for their homes or even toys for their grandchildren. This new printer would also be great to use in small businesses. If companies were able to produce their own products right in their stores by using just one machine, it would greatly reduce their expenses. Even if they used it to make just parts and pieces of their product, it would be that much less that had to pay a supplier for. I’m sure as time goes on this invention will be updated and improved and the number of possibilities of what you can create will be greatly increased. As time goes on the cost of one of these printers will go down and may become a household product.