What happens when you start to ship bits instead of boxes? One impact is that you might start producing custom items like the one at the right as simply as you might have once stamped them out by the thousands. This aviation part has compound geometry, integrated fasteners and structural elements, a unique form and was produced in a day with zero tooling and waste. It has enhanced functionality with less time and equipment invested in making it. May's Disruptive Diner is 3D Printing Becomes Big Business. The Disruptive Diner is a setting for exploring emerging opportunities and big ideas with like-minded peers in an intimate and non-selling environment. Join us if you're ambitious about creating the future.

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2. Researchers at Notre Dame are currently
printing skeletons of small animals using 3D
imaging taken from CT scans. This could
soon be used to duplicate human skeletons
to prepare surgeons for surgery on their
patients.

3. Customized 3D printing for odds and ends
around the house, nursery, and vehicle.

4. MIT introduces a ‘4D’ self-assembling product.
This is a 3D-printed object that is capable of
self-assembling or changing into another shape
when exposed to an outside factor like heat,
water, light or sound.

5. Wilfried Vancraen, recently voted the
most influential person in the 3D
printing sector, stated so far the
industry has just been "replacing a
product by a 3D printed product,
and in many cases even not feasible,
and in no cases really economical."

6. To use the technology at its full
potential, what new products will we
need to imagine for the first time ever?

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8. After a tumor took the left side of his
face Eric Moger had to use his hand
to cover the hole where his cheek
was in order to talk. Eating and
drinking were through a tube. When
a surgeon found how to use a 3D
printer to restore Eric’s face the
operation changed his life!

9. The President even highlighted the potential of
3D printing in creating jobs and promoting
innovation in the 2012 State of the
Union Address.

10. The manufacturing applications of 3D
printing are projected to grow up to
30 percent of the manufacturing
industry.

11. While the 3D printing industry was
worth $1.7 billion worldwide in 2011 it
could grow to more than $3.7 billion
by 2015.

12. Using the cities that you're tagged on in
Facebook, Meshu prints out customized
jewelry that maps your life in your city, your
country, and the world.

13. Organovo has successfully created
tiny functional 3D-printed livers. But
they're only 4 millimeters wide!
The company hopes to develop
normal sized ones to replace the
need for kidney transplants.

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15. The 3Doodler let's you draw in 3D.
How would this change the way you
prototype your ideas?

16. 3D printers have been around for the
past 30 years but are only now
entering into the public realm

17. 3D printing no longer needs to be
monochromatic. On April 30th
BotObjects unveiled the first full-color
desktop 3D printer.

18. Tokyo’s FabCafe created 3D printed
gummy versions of their customers!

19. The Disruption Department works with kids
in STEM education in St. Louis. They believe
that 3D printing will help kids learn how to
prototype their ideas, transforming the focus
of education from end outcomes to process
and implementation.

20. Freedom of Creation is leading the way in
printable food. What benefit does 3D printing
your food have? You can control the ingredients
and exactly how they're structured.
Could meals entirely made by 3D printing
become a new delicacy? A necessity for space
travel? Or will discerning palettes refuse to
consume this redefinition of food production?

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