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A phone charger company named Anker is going into the 3D printing business and, apparently, they have created a 3D printer that can print 5 times faster than other consumer 3D printers.  The company is offering advanced orders on the new printer through kickstarter at $500.  the retail price for the printer will be $750.

If this pans out to be true (and so far, the ‘experts’ in the field seem ready to believe it might be) this could dramatically accelerate the use of portable 3D printers at home.  The opportunities for home 3D printing are many, including offering home business opportunities for people, and printing parts rather than having to order them (if they are available in the first place).

Anker’s first 3D printer might be the one you’ve been waiting for

From www.theverge.com
2022-04-06 07:00:39
Sean Hollister
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3D printing can be a time-consuming and expensive hobby — even if you try to do it on the cheap. It feels like I’ve adjusted, replaced, or upgraded half the parts on my Ender 3 Pro. It’s been fun, but never easy.

But what if a truly consumer-ready 3D printer changed that? We may be about to find out. Trusted phone charger company Anker is officially expanding beyond its Eufy smart home devices, Soundcore audio, Nebula projectors and Roav car accessories into 3D printing this year — and not in a small way. The just-revealed AnkerMake M5 looks like it could give leading brands a serious run for their money.

 

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A fascinating proposal from physicist Melvin Vopson suggests that information itself might be the actual 5th state of matter. The idea itself is intriguing in that it makes the information we hold a physical property. Perhaps this is the synthesis between material and idea that Berkely severed, triggering centuries of debate between materialists and idealists and all sorts of hybrids in between.

Vopson hopes to measure the physical properties of information using a matter-antimatter annihilation process that he hopes will produce “an extra dash of energy: two infrared, low-energy photons of a specific wavelength.” The studies are being conducted at the University of Portsmouth in the UK, where Vopson is studying information theory.

Information Could Be the Fifth State of Matter, Proving We Live in a Simulation

From www.popularmechanics.com
2022-03-30 21:02:13

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Trying to make sense of information is a universal daily experience. For physicist Melvin Vopson, this pursuit goes well beyond the mundane—he’s trying to prove that information has a physical presence. It’s a weighty task that could lead to new insights about how we can manage the future of information storage. It could also lead to a fundamental shift in how we think about the universe.

Vopson, who studies information theory at University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, wants to use an experiment to confirm that elementary particles have measurable mass. It would involve a matter-antimatter annihilation process that would shoot a beam of positrons at electrons in a piece of metal. Positrons and electrons are both subatomic particles, with the same mass and magnitude of charge. However, positrons are positively charged, and electrons are negatively charged. A sheet of metal has many free electrons, increasing the probability of collision with the incoming positrons.

Vopson proposes that a positron-electron annihilation should produce energy equivalent to the masses of the two particles. It should also produce an extra dash of energy: two infrared, low-energy photons of a specific wavelength (predicted to be about 50 microns), as a direct result of erasing the information content of the particles. Photons are particles of electromagnetic radiation.

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3D Printing your home might not be the most cost-efficient way to build your home today. As a matter of fact, it might be difficult to completely 3D print your home. Still, the potential future for 3D printing in home construction could lead to radically new ways of living as 3D printing of the future will theoretically allow greater design opportunities than current conventional methods do. In addition to that, future homes might one day be highly customizable, as well as recyclable.

As your needs change, your home might need to be changed. It can get bigger or smaller. It can be changed as tastes change. Every 10 years or so you might one day go on a vacation and come back to your new home printed for you, mostly printed using the material from your old home.

3D Printed Homes Will Be the Teslas of Housing, Says ICON CEO

From singularityhub.com
2022-04-05 14:00:18
Vanessa Bates Ramirez
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It’s no secret America is in the midst of a housing shortage, with home prices ballooning, supply remaining stagnant, and would-be homebuyers frantic to secure an affordable place to live. Supply chain backups due to the pandemic made building materials more expensive and caused long delays, and there’s a labor shortage too. Worryingly, the situation doesn’t show signs of getting better anytime soon.

In an inspiring presentation at South By Southwest last month titled “It’s Time to Build” (perhaps in reference to Marc Andreesen’s compelling, widely-circulated 2020 blog post of the same title), ICON co-founder and CEO Jason Ballard shared his vision of a new paradigm in homebuilding, and the power of 3D printed houses to change the construction industry.

“I think the homes and buildings of our future are going to have to be profoundly different than they are today,” he said. “Not a little bit different—profoundly different.”

If offered a 100-year-old home versus a home built a year ago, he said he’d take the 100-year-old home. It’s a sad state of affairs; in what other industry would you choose something very old over something brand-new? But construction quality and materials have devolved to a point that this is the reality we find ourselves in.

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