MIT Whizzes Create an Amazing New 3-D Printing Technique

How do you fit a 50-foot-long chain into a 5-inch box? It sounds like a brainteaser you might get while interviewing at Google, but for Skylar Tibbits and Marcelo Coelho it was a practical challenge that led them to reexamine some common assumptions about 3-D printer technology. The conventional wisdom is that to print large, furniture-sized parts, we’ll need ever-larger printers, but the pair of MIT educated researchers have developed an ingenious software tool that enables humble desktop 3-D printers to create objects the size of desks.

By Joseph Flaherty

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/design/2013/09/hyperform-formlabs-thinking-inside-the-box/