As a retailer I am always looking for innovative ways to excite
my customers and 3D printers seem to have fascinating possibilities. For the
un-initiated 3D printers are desktop printers that produce solid 3 dimensional objects,
usually made by plastic extrusion, which can do their manufacturing in your
home, office, or warehouse. Just program in the item you want and press the
button.
I'm sure these things could be very useful and in fact there are some breakthroughs for medical technology but for mass appeal so far all I have
seen are some pretty cheap looking plastic figurines that are hardly
exciting the senses. But now I see the light. US chocolate maker, Hershey's,
have just signed up a deal to create 3D printers that make things out of
chocolate. Just put in the right software and you can pretty much produce any
item out of chocolate. Now that has real possibilities. And just think, you can
eat the failures!
