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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.
在未来除了享受单人火箭外，你可能永远不想离开家门。在家里以你做梦都想不到的方式自已自足。首先，你不用去购物。在家里你可以用一种革新式的新设备做出任何你想要的物品，这种设备叫做Digital Fabricator，或简称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打印机，一种可以存放各种材料，可以做出任何立体物体的机器。
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·利普森设计的Fabber在你的桌子上就可以做出立体物体。就像你的电脑打印机能打印出二维的文件和照片。Fabber将这一过程进一步改进，将数字信息转化为实物，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."
“我们先用电脑做出目标物体的模型，然后用注射器一层层地压制材料，这样就能逐渐形成立体的物品。”
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只适用于简单的塑料和金属。制作的成品很粗糙，并需花费很长时间完成。
"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，这种打印机可以在两小时内制造出一些物品，例如勺子。我认为最终人们只需花几分钟时间，就能用这种机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.
理论上来说随着科技的进步，Fabber生产的范围没有限制。
"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."
最近我已经能用Fabber来制造功能完善的3D电池，电路，玩具，机器人的零件，甚至是食物。
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