Monday, July 12, 2010

Jay Leno 3D printing car parts

Custom printing of parts, telecommuting, maybe people will need less transportation in the future.

“Tonight Show” host Jay Leno has an industrial version in the Burbank garage that houses his collection of more than 200 vehicles. His mechanics design hard-to-find parts on a computer and then use the machine to make them real.

“It's a bit like when I was a kid and I watched ‘The Jetsons,' and they'd walk up to a machine and press a button and get a steak dinner with the baked potato sitting next to it,” Leno said. “But instead of a steak dinner, you're getting an old car part.”