Researchers at MIT have developed a prototype 3-D printer that is up to 10x faster than current consumer printers. One of the things that makes this much faster is their use of a laser to help melt the plastic faster. Once this technology makes it to market I bet we see much faster adoption of 3-D printers in businesses and homes. You can read about the abstract of the research here. Check out this video of the tech in action.



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