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Other than to enjoy your personal rocket, in the future you may never wanna leave the house. Your home will be self-sufficient in ways you've never dreamed of. To begin with, you won't have to go shopping. Your house will be able to make whatever you want with a revolutionary new appliance called the Digital Fabricator, or Fabber.
在未來除了享受單人火箭外，你可能永遠不想離開家門。在家里以你做夢都想不到的方式自已自足。首先，你不用去購物。在家里你可以用一種革新式的新設備做出任何你想要的物品，這種設備叫做Digital Fabricator，或簡稱Fabber。
"Fabber is a 3D printer, machine that can deposit a variety of materials in order to make 3-dimensional objects."
Fabber就像是3D打印機，一種可以存放各種材料，可以做出任何立體物體的機器。
Hod Lipson's fab-at-home Fabber will make 3D objects right on your desktop. Just as your computer printer creates 2-dimensional documents and photos, the Fabber takes this process one step further, turning digital data into solid physical objects. Instead of ink, it uses whatever material the desired object is made of.
胡迪·利普森設計的Fabber在你的桌子上就可以做出立體物體。就像你的電腦打印機能打印出二維的文件和照片。Fabber將這一過程進一步改進，將數字信息轉化為實物，用其它任何材料取代墨水。
"We start off with a computerized model of what the target object should look like, and then these different materials are extruded from the syringe layer by layer in order to gradually create the 3-dimensional objects."
“我們先用電腦做出目標物體的模型，然后用注射器一層層地壓制材料，這樣就能逐漸形成立體的物品。”
Right now, Lipson's home version of the Fabber only works in simple plastics and metals. The results are still crude and take a long time to complete.
目前，立普生家庭版本的Fabber只適用于簡單的塑料和金屬。制作的成品很粗糙，并需花費很長時間完成。
"Currently, the fab-at-home printer can fabricate something like a fork in a couple of hours. I think eventually we'll be able to use these machines to print things in a matter of minutes."
“目前，這種打印機可以在兩小時內制造出一些物品，例如勺子。我認為最終人們只需花幾分鐘時間，就能用這種機器打印出你所需要的物品。”
As the technology improves, there is theoretically no limit to what the Fabber can produce.
理論上來說隨著科技的進步，Fabber生產的范圍沒有限制。
"Recently we've been able to use a Fabber to make things like a functional 3-dimensional battery, circuitry, toys, parts of robots, and even food."
最近我已經能用Fabber來制造功能完善的3D電池，電路，玩具，機器人的零件，甚至是食物。
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