What was a niche prototyping tool 25 years ago is fast becoming a globally competitive manufacturing method. Today's 3-D-printing industry is worth well over $2 billion, and experts estimate it'll climb to five times that by 2021. A staggering variety of items now populate the printed landscape: Many are bizarre one-off experiments, but some are poised to reshape the world we live in, one layer at a time.
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