Cheap Laser-based 3D printers could be coming soon.

There is a key patent expiring (along with some other ones this year) that could cause a change in 3D printing, to the point that the cost of a 3D printer, and the quality could drop quite a bit.  Kindof like home printers in the late 1990s.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/28/cheap-laser-sintering-printers-are-coming-thanks-to-the-expiration-of-a-key-patent/

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