This is several years away. (The 3D printer, not the moving of the thread.
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Lots of splash, very little substance. Everything about the site screams "
(Lab prototype.) But we have funding!" There is a whole bunch of ground to cover to get something at this stage into a real-world product. That they're not even showing an artist's concept of commercially-marketable packaging or anything other than their test shape is, in my mind, quite damning.
Other newcomers in the biz are showing product in finished packaging for live demonstration, but, still, as much as a year away from actual delivery. I don't care how many UNC professors or graduates you have on your staff, you still can't hire nine women to make a baby in a month. I'm more surprised/amazed this much talent doesn't grok that long-range pre-announcements like this become distractions frequently fatal to projects being moved from R&D into production.
I have two interrelated concerns with the tech. First, the cited "non-mechanical" attribute says "DLP" to me. DLP has issues with beam spread at the margins. Then there's the small build area of the demo'ed prototype. Will it scale up?
Not holding my breath, IOW. Or... maybe... my (sad) experience in tech development is nagging me that the splash is not intended to build buzz about a future production device, but to cash-out the tech and let somebody else worry the details of bringing it to market.
