4D Printing
4D Printing - Adding the 4th Dimension of Time Is 4D Printing a real possibility? It would add the dimension of time to length, width and height in the creation of objects. The research behind its development is certainly real. Experts at MIT, Harvard, Cornell and many other outstanding research centers are aggressively pursuing it. It will create structures that construct and deconstruct themselves. As one of the world's leading 3D printing/additive manufacturing experts Avi Reichenthal told me in a news interview: "It will create zero waste, sustainability forever and if you're tired of one geometry, you can reorganize it into another, just like a protein chain." Benchmarks toward 4D MIT's Self Assembly Lab and BMW just revealed a program called Liquid Printed Pneumatics (LPP) for self-assembling car interiors. The Lab's "Rapid Liquid Printing" (RLP) technique is being utilized. The system is a challenge to 3D printing's speed, si...