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Amazon Introduces 3-D Printing
July 29th, 2014

Amazon 3-D printer makes custom客户 personalized个性化的 bobblehead摇头公仔
亚马逊3D打印时用户可以定制个性化的公仔

It’s like something from a science fiction story: Amazon’s just announced a web page offering real “3-D printing”. I wasn’t even sure what that meant — but it’s a revolutionary new way to buy things that haven’t even been created yet…and a real glimpse（惊鸿一瞥：google） into the future.
在亚马逊发布的3D打印页面上买还没有被创造出来的东西，简直就像科幻小说，我不知道这意味着什么，但这确实是一个革新，惊艳未来的一个创意。

For a shortcut（快捷键：google；近路：baidu） to Amazon’s 3-D printing store, point your browser to
tinyurl.com/AmazonPrints3D
快去看看点一下地址：tinyurl.com/AmazonPrints3D

Here’s a four-sentence summary of the way the process works. We live in a world where technology now makes it possible to print more than just ink on a piece of paper. Technology now can also print out substances, using a computer-controlled machine, following a very precise pattern. The pattern is specified by the user, allowing lots of ways to customize a product before it’s even been built. It’s only when you hit the “print” button that your desired product springs into existence!
用四句话来总结他是怎么工作的：当下的科技使得打印机不仅仅能在纸上打印出墨水，而且可以打印出有精美图案的实物。这些图案可以由用户定制，甚至在构建完毕之前就允许多年各种方法自定义它。只需点击打印，你想要的东西就会变成现实。

But the idea could change our world, transforming the way that everything gets made — and then sold. (“Shop the Future!” reads the slogan on the front page of Amazon’s store.) Amazon’s announcement notes that 3-D printing allows vendors to sell “a potentially infinite number of products” — each one customized by the purchaser — and all at very reasonable prices. Mixee Labs (one of Amazon’s partners) calls this “the app store for the physical world”, since you’re not buying digital products, but things! And you can choose the material for your purchase before it’s even been produced, as well as its color, its size, whatever text or image you want to include…
而且，这个创意会改变我们的生活，改变生产东西和出售的他们的方式。出售未知之物，亚马逊的口号就是这么写的。亚马逊还说，3D打印可以让供应商生产前景无限的商品，由用户定制的物品甚至，且价格合理。Mixee（亚马逊合作伙伴）称这种商店是现实世界版的应用商店。你买的不是数字产品而是货真价实的商品。你可以在制作之前选定你所需要用的材料，还有颜色大小任何文字或图片。

Print your initials on steel cuff links! Make a dog tag personalized with the name of your own dog! “Customization gives customers the power to remix their world,” explains the co-founder of Mixee Labs, “and we want to change the way people shop online.” But it’s gone from being a theoretical concept to something you can utilize today.
给你的不锈钢领口印上你名字的缩写。做一个印有你爱犬名字的个性化的狗牌。合作伙伴Mixee实验室解释说：客制化的能力给了客户创造他们所爱的能力。我们意图改变客户网购的方式。3D打印技术已经从理论概念变成了你看得见摸得着的东西了。

For example, imagine buying a bobblehead that’s been customized so it looks like you! You can choose the bobblehead’s eye color, hair color, and hairstyle, and even add eyeglasses. (Even the spring inside the bobblehead is generated by the printer, and it’s only when the bobblehead is produced.) “Turn yourself, friends, family, and coworkers into bobble heads,” reads the product’s description on Amazon — which suggests it as the ultimate personalized gift.
想象一下，买一款像自己模样的公仔。你能定制眼睛的颜色，头发的颜色，发型，甚至眼镜。（甚至连公仔里的弹簧也是同公仔一起打印的。）给你自己，家人朋友合作伙伴制作一个头像，是一种非常个性化的礼物。亚马逊的网页上这么写的。

“The age of 3D printing is just beginning and you can experience it first hand!” reads another Amazon web page. It’s offering an iPhone case with a pattern of plastic that’s described as “rivulets of blood.” Besides red, it’s also available in black, blue, and white… But like any fashion accessory, part of the thrill is the rarity of this accessory. It’s not mass produced; there are only as many in existence as there are customers who ordered them. And you’ll always know that they were built from scratch — automatically! — using a 3-D printer….
另一网页上写着，3D打印页面刚刚开启，你可以获得一手的体验。有一款印有“血脉”图案的iphone手机壳刚刚上线。有红黑白蓝几种款式可供挑选。但像是任何产品一样，罕有是令人兴奋的一点。我们并不会量产。谁要买就给谁做。这样你就会知道这些产品都是从零开始做的（用3D打印机哟）。

Amazon 3-D printed iPhone case
亚马逊3D打印的手机壳

Amazon’s 3-D Print Store offers more than 200 products to choose from. But none of them exist — yet — until you actually click the yellow “Add to Cart” button. Then behind the scenes, Amazon and their partners will go to work assembling your chosen substance, molecule by molecule, into the appropriate pattern. It could change everything — the way all products are created and then sold — and it’s just started happening at Amazon.
亚马逊3D打印商店有超过200种产品可供选择。你若不添加进购物那么他们都不存在。之后亚马逊和他的合作伙伴会一个分子一个分子地构建你要的形状，组装成你要的东西。产品制造和出售的方式从亚马逊开始会有全新的变革。