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Re:How 3D Printing Will Save American Manufacturing on Monday October 03, 2011 @04:42AM (#3065522)
There is some research going on the UK (I can't remember the University now) to do with printing buildings. The potential for reducing raw material and labour costs must be huge.
Re:Amazon Has High Hopes for Its iPad Competitor on Monday September 26, 2011 @04:24AM (#3038065)
I have a Kindle and iPad and use them for different things, I found the iPad isn't very good for book reading, it's too heavy, too bright and the battery life isn't good enough. On the other hand I can read from the kindle just like I would read from a paperback.

The only thing I would like to see from Amazon is a larger display version that is suitable for technical books.

I have to agree, a sandboxed version of llvm bytecode would open up all sorts of opportunities.
I've done this at http://blog.frogmorecs.com/post/7190338563/print-distributor... to try and get ahead of the coupon spam. In the long term I am going to switch to coupon links and drop the field