3-D printing is truly dynamic

There is no more exciting virtual/physical invention today, I believe,than 3-D printing. If, like myself you have followed this phenomenon from busts, to bikes to now human organs, you know how unexpected this evolution has been. Imagine a world where organs can be cell-jet printed, some day. Just the way pictures are ink-jet printed today. That's an amazing world. People would no longer have to wait long for replacements of kidneys or hearts or even lungs, when their own were diseased. As long as a software program was available to personalize the manufacturing of the organ the receiver would be in business. Now, in the entertainment world, 3-D movies are all the rage. Seeing a movie in 3-D is to view a sunset as compelling as the real thing. Such movies may in reality mean that 3-D is among us, but in effect the experience makes it harder for us to grasp 3-D printing and all of its huge potential. You can watch on Youtube now a bicycle being manufactured by 3-D printing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmxjLpu2BvY Or see two companies talk about the benefits of their printers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5POu62l_Wo

First customer-dedicated book

2013 innovation begins with a book that allows readers to write their own dedication prior to its being printed so that, once printed, the book is personalized. It's as if the purchaser of the book met with the author in person and received a signed, dedicated book. Except the purchaser never met the author and instead ordered the book online with a customer dedication and a digitized signature from the author. Pictured below, the dedication ("Peter, The future is now") on the first page looks like this:

"Communicating with the Future," a book by Tom Frey, Google's top-rated futurist speaker and founder of the Davinci Institute in Louisville, CO, has been ordered 160 times by people who requested personalized dedication pages in the books they ordered. The dedications were printed on the first page of the book, which includes a digitized signature by Tom Frey as well as a dedication from Leaonardo Da Vinci: "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sit back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." If you would like to order "Communicating with the Future" and input your own dedication, paste this URL in your browser: https://asoft8136.accrisoft.com/newsconf/index.php?src=forms&ref=Personalizing+a+publication&id=Personalizing+a+publication FYI, here are some of the dedications people ordered: Aaron -- Wishing you much success in the future / To Mark, Here's to Reinventing the Future / To the Clark Family, Never Stop Reaching for the Future. / To Gordon, Make the Future, rather than Predict It. / To Danny & Stephanie The past and the future are based in light. Ours is to live in the grey inbetween /

Ebook globalization

2013 will be the year the ebook evolution goes global. Many countries, for the first time, will have the opportunity to get ebooks galore, or more accurately, be able to choose between ebooks and print books, to purchase one or the other, or both. Download for free "The Global eBook Market: Current Conditions and Future Projections" from O'Reilly and read for yourself. Here's the link:http://search.oreilly.com/?q=the+global+ebook+market%3A+current+conditions+%26+future+projections The UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria, Slovenia, Poland, Russia, Brazil, and China: all will experience the phenomenon. Personalize MEdia loves the ebook evolution because it makes the physical more virtual and the virtual more physical. Personalize MEdia's belief is that in every ebook file there should be a "Print Now" button so that people can buy and read the ebook first, and if they wish a unique keepsake, purchase the physical incarnation immediately and seamlessly. The "Print Now" button will link to an ordering page (URL) and the "ebook" can be designed (to some degree) by the reader, purchased, printed and delivered to his or her physical address.