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Bruce Sterling
Feb 17, 2011 10:23 AM

Design Fiction: fabbing concept cars

https://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/02/the-secret-world-of-printing-concept-cars-in-3d/

*Given the crashing price of rapid-prototyping, one wonders why all consumer objects don't have "concept objects." Why not concept sewing machines, or concept bicycles?

Citroen Hypnos

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