3D printer technology is still young, and for the most part too expensive to be practical, but in the next few decades you can expect to see the importance of this new technology increase drastically. Behrokh Khoshnevis is one man leading the way with 3D printing. A professor of engineering and the director of the Manufacturing Engineering graduate program at USC, Khoshnevis is a strong advocate for this revolutionary new technology. In 2006, Khoshnevis unveiled his concept for a massive 3D printer used to build entire homes in under a day, he calls the project Contour Crafting. At a recent TEDx Talk, he explained how the invention could … [Read more...]