This new Hero Arm looks fascinating. I’d like to see how “extremely affordable” they are but no info at website. My sister-in-law would be a perfect candidate and needs one badly.
Ive been watching this technology for 20 years (was used in industrial development model making originally)
Think of this - kid gets a fad object code from their favorite box of cereal or online game bonus whatzit and takes it to their local big box/supermarket store/library/mall where there are 3D printer machines like we now have photo-printing kiosks.
They put their code on (a one-time use code) and the pattern is downloaded to make whatever it is 3 inch tall ‘gay batwoman action figure’ (or whatever) and 10-15 minutes later (after shopping) they can pick up their item from the machine. Gimmicks like having one’s face added to the model or name/title text or other cutomizations would assist (versus chinese junk made for 1 cent each and shipped by the cargo container-ful).
The PROBLEM holding this back is : Such 3D printed objects take 6-12 HOURS to make (even now in industrial grade machines). This needs to be sped up by a factor of 10 to be commercially workable (and the machines made reliable enuf to not need/require maintenance twice a day).
So the technology is really still in its infancy