♪ (ragtime music) ♪ - (finebros) so today we're starting you off with something a little different. you're actually going to be reactingto some new technology today. - okay. i like technology.
3d printed art for sale, - oh, great. - okay, what is this? - (finebros) so we're gonna show you all about... this. (silence)
- i'm really underwhelmed. - that does not look particularly new. - that's kinda cool. - it's like kind of a printer. - it's a robot of some kind. i have no idea what it would do. why would you need this wire? - oh, is it a 3d printer? - (finebros) it is!- oh, okay! oh, good.
i didn't know they looked like this,but i have heard of them. (movie reel clicks) - (finebros) what do you think that is? - i have absolutely no idea. - uh... i have no idea. - it's an automatic lanyard maker. - it looks it could be a copier of some sort. - it's a 3d robot. some kind of 3d robot.
- i would guess it's a 3d printer. - (finebros) what you're looking at is a 3d printer. - oh, really? - that small? - oh, interesting. - form some mold and you get the live thing. - (finebros) you can create or download designs for a multitude of objectsand the printer will print it and you will have a physical product in your hand
right from that machine.- that's fantastic. - so what do i get to make? what are we waiting for?let's have fun! - (finebros) so part of the way this works is with something called filament, which is a type of plasticthat you see right there. - i see that. - (finebros) so this is what makes everything. - this is it? - that's fantastic, isn't it?
this technology's gonna change everything. - i'm sure they're easy to produce this thing, and then we can buy these things in different colors. - i don't see how a little string like this can make a 3d dimensional product. (reel thuds)- ooh! that's why you can't amuse everyone. - (finebros) so we're gonna now walk you through how to use this. - oh gosh! no.
- (in disbelief) i'm gonna use it? - good luck to you! - i can't use it without a computer. (laughs) - (finebros) just like a regular printer,if you were gonna print text-- - uh-huh.- (finebros) you need to hook up a computer to it, but instead of printing text you're gonna print things. all right, we're gonna turn it on. (flips switch)
(machine whirs)- i'm gonna print an object now? - (finebros) shortly. (squealing with delight) - (finebros) here's the program that comes with the printer that we loaded with pre-made objects, so take a look at the screenand select anything from that list and it will print it.- oh, this is so fantastic. - we've got the iphone case, a padlock... - thor's hammer, and a spork!
- i wanna see the padlock. - i guess an iphone case. - i think the spork would be probably the most useful for me 'cause i'm a foodie. - i'd like to make thor's hammer. - go to print. (punches key) - (finebros) so before it starts, it needs to heat up to 210â°. - we've got a ways to go.
(machine whirs)- (tsks) i'm waiting. - it's 178... 180â° already. - so i don't have to go to some factory in hong kong to watch this being made? - if i get the right gear, i could do this stuff at home. this is amazing. - i don't understandwhere it could be done. (machine begins calibrating)- oh. oh! - ooh, it's starting!
- i've heard about this technology. i never thought i would actually sit and participate. - (finebros) and then it's gonna calibrate so it can find itself to know where to start the mold. - it's like taking measures and... - maybe i should get back a little bit... back further. (machine whirs)- it's pretty noisy too. - it's almost as slow as my printer at home. - does it make it on top of this platform or underneath it?
oh, there it comes. - it's drawing out the outline. - oh, i see it now. it has an outline made. (machine whirs) - well, this is amazing. - it's probably just gonna lay layer on top of layer until it gets however thick it wants to be. - hey, this could take a while, couldn't it? does it move any faster?
- (finebros) in just two hours and ten minutes, you'll have that iphone case.- oh. two hours... all right,you bringing lunch or dinner? - (finebros) so in a little less than an hour, you would have the spork.- i'm gonna watch the whole thing? - (finebros) in just 17 hours, you'll have thor's hammer. (stunned silence) - hours? - (finebros) in just 12 hours, you'll have this lock.
- in 12 hours. oh, (giggles) get out of hereand go buy one at the store. - it's not bad, even though it's 12 hours,i think it's worth it. - (finebros) so, obviously, we're not gonna sit here for the two hours.- right, okay. - (finebros) so i'll cancel the print.- aww. - (finebros) but we have the finished product here to show you. - oh, well, that's pretty cute. - that's great.
- my god. - and with the design and everything in it, right. gee, that's very neat. - very well-conceived and put together. - this is almost an actual production piece. - (laughs) it's put thor on it too? that is just amazing that it can write. - plain dang impressive. 17 hours though.oh my god.
- things that i couldn't even imagine are created already. - the other technologies sort of creep up on you 'cause i'm familiar with the phone. for me, i cannot imagine it,even though i'm sitting right here with my powerful hammer. - (finebros) who do you think benefits the most as this becomes even more advancedand more affordable and less time consuming? - well, i think, primarily, it's gonna be the medical field.
- commerce, which is the basis, really, of all cultures and all societies. it turns the whole making of the economy on its head. - i wonder what happens to certain other businesses that sell the product. i mean, what's gonna-- goodbye! - i don't think we have to worry about replacing human beings with this yet. maybe in 50 years.
- (finebros) so 3d printing has a lot of pros and cons even now. the bad is that people have made guns with this technology that actually work.- yes, i heard about that. - i didn't think about that.that's really-- that's scary. - (finebros) but on the other side of it,there's prosthetic limbs and all these innovations and accessibility in the medical field. so what are your thoughts about those sides of the technology? - i don't fret on it. - we're gonna get into the censorship issue,
where we go, "okay, well, you can't make certain things." well, who's gonna control that? - we have made a lot of advances that are very helpful today and very much needed, so we can't stop technology. - if you want to make a weapon,you don't need a 3d printer to do that. on the plus side, the prosthetic limbs, valves... that's just wonderful. - (finebros) so if this is the technology now, where do you think we're heading?- i really can't imagine
what's gonna be in 20 years from now. - if you'd make it as big as this room,it could make our own cars. - i think it's going into space. if we go to another planet,can you imagine how much stuff we'd need? but now we can make what we need. - (finebros) so last question,if you could have one of these now, would you want one?- absolutely not. i don't need it in my life. - i can't think of what i would want to make, to be honest.
- this just seems a bit clunky,a bit noisy, a bit basic, so i'm sure that in five yearsthey would be really awesome. - yes, i would want one. - i'm the first one in line. - my great aunt was born in 1889. her attitude always was,"oh, isn't this exciting?" so i think it's really importantto kind of have that attitude about, "isn't this exciting? isn't this amazing?what else can it do?" and be just in awe.
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- good bye! - you may have thought this was the real don, but actually, (speaking robotically)i'm a 3d print of myself, 3d print of myself,3d print of myself.
