Obama's state of the union
CNN:
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The burgeoning field of 3-D printing got a big boost Tuesday night
when President Obama highlighted it as something that could fuel new
high-tech jobs in the United States.
The shout-out in Obama's State of the Union address was perhaps the
biggest public endorsement so far of a technology that has its roots
in the 1970s, but has recently begun to boom on two fronts -- as an
increasingly accessible consumer product and an industrial one that
advocates say could change the face of manufacturing.
Obama spoke about the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation
Institute, a public-private partnership established in the hard-hit
manufacturing city of Youngstown, Ohio, last year to research how
cutting-edge 3-D printing technology can be moved from the research
phase to day-to-day use.
Obama said. |
