The fabricator - every home should really have one

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Physicist Marshall Burns, author of 'Automated Fabrication' and proprietor of Ennex Fabrication Technologies, believes that every home will have a CAD/CAM (computer-aided-design/computer-aided-manufacturing) appliance to instantly satisfy residents' material desires by 2008. Pneumatic tubes will supply canisters of such raw materials as photopolymer resins, plastic, metal, ceramic materials and fibers to the automatic fabrication appliance, which will then 'print-out' and assemble such 3-d objects as toothbrushes, costume jewelry and nuts and bolts. Automatic fabricators will also enable earthlings to colonize the moon. First-generation desktop manufacturing systems already exist, priced from $100,000 to $500,000. They construct 3-d plastic objects by shining light onto layers of photosensitive plastic polymers. Fabricators are currently used in the auto, aerospace and other industries to instantly replace loose screws, for example.

Computer and Office Equipment, General industrial machinery, not elsewhere classified, Forecasts and trends, Technological forecasting, Interview, CAD-CAM systems, Appliances, Product introduction, Forecasting, CAD-CAM systems industry, Home appliances, CAD/CAM, Future of Computing, New Technique

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Don't people want to control their TV's? TiVo and ReplayTV may change viewing habits, but consumers aren't clamoring for them yet

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Consumers have not yet become enamoured of the new digital video recording services being offered by TiVo and ReplayTV. The services are an accompaniment to the new digital video recorders sold by Sharp, Panasonic, Sony and Philips Electronics. Sharp and Panasonic recorders run on ReplayTV services and Sony and Philips run on TiVo services. The services allow the consumer to put 'live' TV shows on pause, skip the commercials and search for TV programs to record and then record them onto a hard drive.

United States, Cable and other pay TV services, Cable and Other Program Distribution, Subscription Television ex CATV, Services, Television broadcasting industry, Subscription television, Teleworld Inc., ReplayTV Inc., Sony Corp. Consumer Video Products Div.

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DVD toy for rich techies

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Panasonic of Japan has introduced its DMR-E10 DVD Video Recorder to the United States. The video recorder costs $4,000 and blank cassettes for recording are $25 or more. The recorder's rceorded discs may not work in older DVD players and it is likely that other companies developing the recorders may not adhere to the same recording formats. Future fallout may see the industry in a fight like that which accompanied the Betamax vs. VHS video recording formats.

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