XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics, sci.electronics.design
From: fjmccall@gmail.com
Jeff Findley wrote:
>In article <24vf3e-srm.ln1@mail.specsol.com>, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
>says...
>>
>>
>> I can see a few, very few, people printing junk jewelry, mostly teenage
>> girls.
>
>Perhaps, but have you been to a craft store in the last 5 years?
>They've been selling commercial 2d robotic cutters for many years that
>are about the size of an ink-jet printer. The stupid thing shows
>absolutely no sign of stopping even though the "cartridges" which
>contain the cutting patterns are DRM protected and *very* expensive.
>They are mostly used by people who like to do scrap books, but others
>use them for making their own greeting cards and etc.
>
>In those same craft stores is a large jewelery making section. Those
>"memory bracelets" people make are a hot thing because "every item on it
>represents a memory". In other words, these things are already highly
>customized.
>
>So, I wouldn't discount the notion that the crafts stores might start
>selling very small 3d metal printers for making little dangling things
>for jewelery (memory bracelets, necklace charms, and etc.) since this
>would drop right into the market-space. They would only need to print
>at most 3" x 3" x 3" to cover 99% of the jewelery market.
>
>That same metal printer would sell "big league" at game stores where
>custom cast characters for board games are already a huge market. In
>other words Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer 40k, and etc. Even if an
>individual player wouldn't want one, every damn game store on the planet
>would want at least a couple.
>
Any bets on what his response will be, Jeff? I'm betting it will
include the word 'niche', 'crap', or both. You see, the entire world
falls in those categories unless it is something we've been doing
since the 1930s...
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