Maybe this is the way parts will be made for watches down the road if they can make them that small.

http://widgets.nbc.com/o/47f13...cpid/ba4377d3bfd6c81

Roger

Wow! that's amazing.... I wonder how small a part can be duplicated....

Roger, that is a truly amazing machine....
25 years ago, I'm an old cogger, ..I ran a shop that used three extrusion machines and we made similar parts of plastic and then assembled them into a finished product....this machine, especially the 'printer' does everything so that there is no assembly necessary....unbelievable...!

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, I for one appreciate it....

Regards,
Jerry

We have a similar machine at work that our new product development designers use to make prototype parts they designed on their computers to see how the assemblies will work before making molds. Truly fantastic technology and amazing to watch in action.

Steve

I agree amazing

In the 1980's when I was on an assignment in Rochester, MN where the IBM AS/400 is made, I saw a machine that they were working with that didn't even have an existing part! They had the design done on the computer, then a holographic image was projected and the part made from that hologram. I don't know how far that technology went.