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Will we one day find a desktop factory in every American home?
The origin of Desktop Factory was not so much a desire to print Barbies as a frustration with the Internet.
Desktop Factory says the machines pose no hazard to users because they use a safe nylon-based material.
One company that wants to be the first to deliver a 3-D printer for consumers is Desktop Factory, started by IdeaLab, a technology incubator here.
Desktop Factory, a start-up based in Pasadena, California, hopes to launch a 3-D printer for $4,995 that is around the same size as an early laser printer.Objet believes the way to the mass market is via inkjet technology, just as it has been with 2-D printers.
And Desktop Factory's version is meant to be compact enough for a home office — 25 by 20 by 20 inches — with a weight of less than 90 pounds.
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Nanomechanical systems will someday shuffle molecules in desktop factories, much as nanoelectronic systems in desktop computers now shuffle bits.
Scientists foresee a day when they can churn out virus-size computers, cancer-munching robots swimming through arteries and desktop factories assembling watches out of dust.
At the end of March, Dell announced it would close its desktop PC factory in Austin, Tex., by the end of the year, cutting 900 jobs.
Take the abandoned Dell desktop computer factory just a few miles from its Round Rock headquarters.
It is essentially a desktop toy factory — or, for anyone else, a prototype printer allowing for rapid manufacturing.
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