Itty bitty 3D printer

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Bruce Sterling calls this tiny 3D printer "Cute and eerie."

High-quality 3D printing at home has just come one step closer. Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria have presented the smallest 3D printer to date. At the size of a carton of milk and weighs 1.5 kilograms, it currently costs around €1,200 but the makers expect the price to drop quickly.

The World's Smallest 3D Printer