
Photo Credit: Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
By Amy O’Leary
You may have seen some odd-shaped plastic trinkets on someone’s desk or heard about the first shots fired a few weeks ago from a 3-D printed gun. With every new 3-D printed object, the world seems to be getting closer to a future where we can “print out” objects like furniture, clothing, human tissue and even buildings. NASA even recently invested in technology to print food. The possibilites are staggering.