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We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate.

Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.

3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made.

3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process.

I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.

I'm a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn't spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

We can create any sort of flavor on a printed image that we set our minds to.

I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.

Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things.