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To the uninitiated, ‘selective laser sintering’ sounds like some kind of laser-based elimination game – one played out, perhaps, between the strong-jawed heroes of a new Star Wars film. However, the process – more commonly known as rapid manufacturing – is much less about space-age swordplay and more about a production technique that sees lasers put to use fusing powdered material to create real-life, three-dimensional products on demand. As a manufacturing process as well as for what it suggests for the future of design, its implications are many. Selective laser sintering, in short, sounds like the future.

By M. Astella Saw