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As many copies of absolutely anything that you could ever want.

What could possibly go wrong? We ask, How close are we to having 3D

printers in our house? Waxing lyrical with the superstar.

storing it and growing it. create and dress out own beat Box

band. Around 200 years ago the Industrial Revolution changed the

way we create things. Today, almost everything we owned is mass-produce

in some factory somewhere in the world. That could all be about to

change. As consumer tech has turned many of us many of us ographers, DJs,

journalists, could it be about to remove the barriers to production

itself? We ask whether soon we may be able to produce what we want,

when we want at home. Last month, London hosted an event showcasing

what was reported as a new way to produce things. Printing them. On

show, a variety of objects from toys to intricately designed

fashion items and a live band playing three printed instruments.

-- 3D. The idea has been around about 30 years and it's being used

in many creative industries from crafting sculptures for the Swedish

Ice Hotel to the latest James Bond movie. The classic Aston Martin car

was replicated using one of them world's largest 3D printers and the

movie makers had a hand at what happened to it without the chance

of scratching and expensive original. 3D designs are brought to

life layer by layer, each layer is in and the finer the detail. With

basic home printers starting at about �900 and the prices falling

quickly, many think it may be something we may all get involved

with. The biggest and most exciting thing that has just happened is

this technology that was only available to the elite and it now

and the hands of anyone. Anybody can be an industrial designer and

anybody can be a mechanical engineer and anybody can be an

architect and make prototypes and models and products at home. Take

this Stowe's novel, if I wanted to replace this, I have to phone the

manufacturer to get them to send me one and that is presuming it was

still in production. In the future, with a 3D Printer at home, I can

simply download a blueprint and make my own. All I can design one

from scratch. To do that, we need to create a 3D model and the

printer needs to know what to do. One option is to scan what we want

to reproduce. With an elaborate set up like this one or with a portable

scanner that looks a bit like an Byron. More into print of checks

and it's not ideal. There's often areas of occlusion and the

Skandalis cannot see them directly or clearly and 3D software is

needed. One at feet and into make the process a bit more touchy-feely

is this company. It's device allows you to create designs using forced

feedback and more traditional Scott Harding techniques can be used. It

feels like a video game, really, and it has a feedback helping your

mind get into the 3D sense of what's going on and the feel much

more in control like you're malting something. However we make them,

most of us will need to have our grand designs finished off by a

professional 3D artist which represents a major barrier. A much

more likely future would be downloading a model from the web to

print at home. In fact, you can already buy or download many

designs. Some websites even turn our photos into a printable model.

It objects become so easily wreck level, this may raise more concerns.

Copying them may infringe the inventor's writes just like

pirating music or movies. You think of lots of Walt Disney characters

that people may want to produce as Tories and they have certain rights

and they have three deep trademarks as well existing. That also

protects the object such as the shape or the bottle or the brandy

bottle orate perfume bottle, things like that. They have a

characteristic shape and the machines may be able to search the

database which has those rights record. Then they allow people to

buy the licence to use the rights or to be able to produce that

object. There's other concerns also. In this news playpen of creativity,

how do you protect yourself from a fake designed? The ones you may

download that don't actually work when you print them. Or if you want

to create the toy for your son or daughter, how do you know that it

may be suitable for them to play with? This fire engine comes with a

warning that it should not be used by children under the age of three.

Disney is testing the future where we can create new toy is safely.

Even the screen on this is created in the Printer. There's no circuit

board and instead a unique optical design allows the lights to

illuminate the display in different ways. New designs that are

interlaced with many moving parts and can be printed it in one go and

some say your imagination is the limit. Unfortunately, it is not. We

will need to know a bit about the engineering also. There's a lot of

debate about what objects may be suitable for 3D printing where it's

at home or in the offer has but one constraint is the materials

available. You may have some part with multiple materials and you may

not have a printer that can print on those materials but there may be

won round the corner or an assembly required afterwards limiting the

types of people that make use them for a home manufacturing. For your

own designs with a secret shops given a new lease of life not only

providing occasional use of expensive printers, this one costs

over �50,000, but also the know how how to get the home designs to

actually work. Making a functional object depends on part in the

materials used, compressed power that is more brittle and it's OK

for some models but not for moving parts. A colour Scheldt less than

one millimetre thick provides the detail. Tougher reasons need to be

melted to flow through the printing nozzle. They may be flexible but

tend not to be able to look withstand Australian replacing a

moving part in the Carrefour example. Insuring high quality and

protecting the design rights may be the biggest challenge. Despite a

hype, the revolution of printing whatever we need in our own homes

remains unrealistic. Designing personalised small gifts or

downloading a treaty to sign we may print or take to the printing shop

has already materialised. A slightly more realistic view of 3D

printing. Next, we look at that take news. The new mobile operating

system will be launched in January. The BlackBerry 10 will be available

on two new handsets with a feature caused flow allowing multi-tasking

easier. In a bid to keep loyal uses it has upgraded the BlackBerry

messenger at with free voice calls over WiFi. That will be to other

uses using a stop that brings it closer to other phone using systems

that already used free calls. Weeks after the launch of Windows eight,

Stephenson of Ski has let Microsoft with immediate effect. He has been

seen as instrumental in trying to get the Microsoft ecosystem with

ex-boss, PC and tablets and online services. His departure at is due

to the strained relationship with the chief executive, who had been

previously tipped to succeed him. No cure is after a taste of Apple

offering its mapping up for the ils devices and it will be free

including Offline support when you have no internet connection. They

are also making the service available for development on here

and Roy Apps and has used Masilo with location features. Nokia will

improve the service even more acquiring St imaging company to

compete with Google Street view. Google has gone over the street

launching its new super-fast broadband service to some US homes

offering speeds of up to one gigabit per second. They have been

buying up dark fibres from telecom firms bringing that into homes

through overhead cables. Summer the first residents to receive a

service in Kansas City report speeds of 700 megabits per second

and one terror by to storage on Google. The Tate world can be more

than a little bit insular. It sometimes needs a helping hand from

Global Icons, superstars shouting from the rooftops about their

passion for technology. One such Black-f

Black-Eyed Peas lead singer Will.i.am, let's face it, when

William Adams punctuates his name to have more Dobson when the dress,

you know it's likely to be a street of Haitink goodness flowing through

his veins. Richard Thaler caught up with Will.i.am to find out what

makes him tick. With chart-topping Grammy

Grammy awards, songwriter and DJ Will.i.am is nothing short of a

musical phenomenon. When we met recently in Manhattan, it soon

became clear he has designs on the world of hi-tech as well. I was an

enthusiast ever since I was a small boy. A UA Property Week? I am a

property. I'm an undercover beak. He is commensals got a boost this

year as he recorded a song at NASA broadcast back from the Mars

Curiosity rover, a true out of this world first. It's like a boomerang,

the first her rain song. I threw it to a different planet and it came

back. He has also directed creativity at Intel, a company

struggling to make an impact with mobile devices. What you tell them

that Intel? Actually, they are no wherein the smartphone business. A

small company seems to be doing well. OK, the smartphones still

need a server. What Servers are they using? Intel. Anyway, my

company is in the loop. Intel is a marathon on. You want to be a

leapfrog and not having a different device, you need to leapfrog.

was on the digital media that he was most vocal saying the onslaught

of the mob would democracy and video has disrupted traditional TV

broadcasters who pieces still harbour the old school mentality.

Broadcasters, unfortunately, as robust as they are, their business

is television, monopolising it with ants and that's it. It's not true

innovation. If it was true innovation they would have created

Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. you make about the YouTube content?

When they put in millions of young creative up and coming produces.

Are they are threat to the YouTube will be a threat to to the

broadcasters when every single home has a smart television. A smart

television is a threat to cable. Right? It allows your sister, youth,

who watching, to be a network yourself. Had the impact culture?

The brand will go where the culture in packs. Culture today is

rehashing yesterday. The new Spider-man. But how many times have

I seen that? The new Three Stooges. Are you serious? Where is the new

depth thinking? We need innovation. It will come from the new platforms.

Check this out. This is a South Korean book, he read Gangnam Style.

If a current Act could break all over the world because of a YouTube

clip, not a network clip, but is a connected world. Connected

television has not been successful so far. Some people do not pick

them up. This is just the beginning. Imagine this is an marathon. You

are like, man, Pranab Mukherjee from Slovakia or looks like she

will win. She is in the lead. -- girl. Then the Ethiopian person is

all the way in the back. Guess who will win the race? You have to look

at it from the long run. Leaving had better hurry increasingly

taking us away from connected television and on to apps could

second screens. Like tablets or smartphones. We are finding out

more about shows Paul tweeting on air. It is innovation. It is not

happening here. I am watching a to the -- television programme. On

that programme, the victim is running. They are running from the

killer or something. They could to a safe house. They close the door

and look for a telephone. It is winning. Your phone rings in your

house. Hello? The character is talking to you. Can you do

something? Take this number down. I'll send you a text, OK? Say OK. I

want you to get the message. How does this happen? It is interactive.

The interactivity from phone calls and e-mails, you are participating.

You type in your phone number in to the networks. You are part of the

script. They know who you are, where you are and what you are

brain. My people at the networks are thinking like that. They are

trying to how to monetise yesterday is that of monetising contend today.

That is why it is coming from the TEC and on the broadcasters unless

they get visionaries to be a part of their thing. If it sounds like a

sales pitch. No. It sells for a job application. You want to shake

things up. Having 80 actors on a television show last year, he was

to create a new programme with a I wanted to do that. I would like

to create a show that is in pursuit Of tomorrow's Bill Gates,

tomorrow's Steve Jobs, tomorrow's Michael Dell. Tomorrow's Mark

Zuckerberg. Do you see what is wrong if that sentence? Everyone I

named, Alker is no woman in there. I want to do that and inspire a

woman to join us on this admission of finding tomorrow's next

entrepreneur and innovator. Why not. Have the -- it is not as sexy and

popular as sinning. It is. Some believe gone just for five The

Voice last year. Where is their album? Somebody won American Idol

last year. Where is their album? Somebody designed an iPhone last

year. Would you buy it? Richard Taylor talking to will.i.am.

There is much more of that interview on one hand on our

website. That is also where you would find

I'm eyeing up a different photograph filter application. It

is available free from iPhone, Android and Windows 7. It lets you

take photographs and share them on your show Sean at work. The

addition of tagging makes it possible to compile themed

collections around a particular This is a great feature. Especially

if you follow a cultural or sporting event. The app has been

around for one year. It has been redesigned for Android. It takes

advantage of social discovery and applications. -- locations. The app

does everything you would expect. It will push similar images from

other users into a stream, along with pace and will current

locations. You get different perspectives on the event you are

Time trouble has never been so easy, virtually speaking. -- Travel. This

is a family-run website that focuses on teaching history through

interactive experiences. It combines time lines, maps and

encyclopedic entries to bring historic chapters to life. What is

so great about this website is it Lynx historic events like the rise

and fall of great civilisations and umpires to whatever else was going

on the world during that period, giving see subject context. You can

understand why the history unfolded When you have had the feel of the

past, check out some dates from the This brilliant browser sequencer

let you build tracks from a selection of the samples by simply

dropping the appropriate outfit on to the avatars. Samples can be

muted. You can record your musical genius to share through the usual

social channels. this app is fun to use. You do not need to be a

musical genius as it is impossible to make things sound bad, even for

me. It is pretty incredible. But is it from us. If you fancy war,