3D printing... the future looks Interesting

 As an artist I wonder how this can be used to create art... if affordable units are made available.

A 3D model of a complex anaplastology case, created in collaboration with the anaplastologist Jan De Cubber, is seen at the Belgian company Materialise, the biggest 3D printer in Europe, in Leuven January 24, 2013. 3D printing has already changed the game for manufacturing specialized products such as medical devices but the real revolution will come when designers start to rethink the shapes of objects. Materialise, a pioneer in the process, has a display of a foldable chair printed from one continuous piece of plastic - and made with the hinges already joined together, for example.
REUTERS/Yves Hermann Traub
http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTR3ER2U#a=2