What if 3D printing was 100x faster?

Updated 8.13.15, 6:24 PM EDT by Martin Ross

What we think of as 3D printing, says Joseph DeSimone, is really just 2D printing over and over ... slowly. Onstage at TED2015, he unveils a bold new technique -- inspired, yes, by Terminator 2 -- that's 25 to 100 times faster, and creates smooth, strong parts.

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