Say Goodbye to 'Made-In-China'
And say hello to the breakthrough technology that's launching a 21st-century industrial revolution right here in America. Business Insider calls it "the next trillion dollar industry."
The suits on Wall Street think this idea is too good to be true. But the guys who brought you the iPod and Amazon.com are already on board. You still have time to join them, if you act fast...
Dear Fellow Investor,
Tell me if this sounds crazy. I just saw a violin appear out of thin air and play a Bach sonata.
And that's not the half of it.
Right before that, I saw someone cram a milk jug into a metal tube and pull a shoelace out at the other end. Heck, when I sat down to my desk this morning, I saw an anatomically perfect human kidney spun together on a cotton candy wheel. A surgeon used it to perform a successful transplant.
You're right. All of those things do sound crazy! But all of them are real.
And technology experts are convinced that this is just the beginning.
Not just hackers, hobbyists, and over-caffeinated engineering professors, mind you. We're talking some of the biggest players in the big ideas business.
They saw the same incredible video demonstrations that I did, and decided they just had to get a piece of the action.
- Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos joined an investment group that plowed $10 million of venture capital into this game changer.
- Google rushed their development team to make a software app for it.
- Hewlett Packard cut a deal with one of the two main hardware makers.
- The Consumer Electronics Association featured it at their 2013 extravaganza in Las Vegas, where it was named "best emerging technology."
- The Pirate Bay -- the world's most powerful digital copyright cheater -- released a manifesto declaring that intellectual property law is now obsolete and predicting the death of the factory as we know it. All because this "impossible" technology is now not only possible, but affordable.
Naturally, there are skeptics.
When it comes to truly disruptive ideas that force us to rethink our basic assumptions about everything, there always are.
There were "reasonable" people who thought the light bulb, the radio, the television, and the cell phone would never be commercially successful. (See the box on the right for a good laugh.)
But that's the thing about "reasonable" people. When they imagine the future, they only see the present.
The truth of the matter is, the world we enjoy today is built on technologies that imagined a new future.
Technologies that transformed ordinary people's lives by making them easier and better.
And that's exactly what this invention does.
Business Insider research analyst Pascal Gobry calls it "THE NEXT TRILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY."
That's trillion with a "T"! But even if you think Mr. Gobry is getting a little carried away, subtract an entire zero from that number, and you still get an industry as big as the medical technology industry, the digital advertising industry, and the global coffee industry.
And right now, only a few forward thinking investors understand how truly enormous this change will be.
But when we're looking at an industry that's sustained a mind-blowing 26.2% annual growth rate for more than 20 years… how much longer do you think that can last?
Look, I've never been the kind of guy who gets caught up in the "next big thing" hype.
My name is Mark Brooks, and I publish an award-winning financial newsletter called Motley Fool Stock Advisor.
Believe me, I've seen a lot of "next big things" come along in my day. So I don't blame you if you want to look before you leap.
Here at The Motley Fool, we don't chase after hype. We look for smart investments that have outstanding long-term growth potential.
We think for ourselves, and we think you should too.
So it took me a lot of research before I clearly understood how 3D printing was going to change our world in a profound way.
More than anything, it was one conversation that changed my mind...
That's why I urge you to take the next few minutes to read this report from cover to cover.
In plain language, it breaks down this incredible technology and how it will transform everything about our economy -- from manufacturing, to transportation, to healthcare, to defense, to education, to... you name it.
You'll learn about the three visionary companies that are destroying the S&P 500, and the one man who knows exactly when and how to invest in them.
He's up 260.4% since making his first investment in this technology in 2008. The rest of the market returned only 70.7%. He made 131% with his second 3D printing investment in 2009, even better than the 108.9% return that everyone else has made since then. And he's made an incredible 137% by adding the third and final piece of this trillion dollar puzzle. (The S&P grew 61.76%.)
He's the one who convinced me this technology is for real. And that I needed the right plan if I wanted to invest in it.
What can I say? I'm a believer now.
So I was nodding my head in agreement when I saw the following headline on the newsstand at the airport the other day. It was in Forbes. It said this invention...
"Will Change Absolutely Everything It Touches"
Are you ready to find out what it is?
I thought so. And I'd hate to keep you in suspense any longer.
It all started in the early 1980s, at a small laboratory in Southern California's canyon country.
That was right around the time that Hewlett Packard and Epson were marketing the first commercially successful desktop printers.
Skeptics at the time said no office would ever buy its own printer.
Then they said that it made no sense to put one on an employee's desk.
Then they said that nobody would want one in their home. That color printing would never work. Or photo printing...
But think about how much desktop printing has changed our working lives. Do you remember mimeographs? Carbon paper?
Secretaries?
Meanwhile, at that lab in the sun-kissed Santa Clarita Valley, researchers were already laying the groundwork for the next revolution.
This bold advertisement predicted that desktop printers would be an $11.84 billion market by 1985. The estimate turned out to be too conservative. The market for 3D printers was over $1 billion in 2011... how big could it become by 2015? And how much could you profit?
What was it?
If you think about it, a printer is really just a nozzle that moves from side to side, spitting out or pressing ink onto a two-dimensional surface -- a piece of paper.
It's not really the ink or the paper that matter, but the precision of the device, and the computer program that guides it to lay down the desired pattern.
That same computer software also powers more advanced two-dimensional printing technologies, like laser printers. And if we can print in two dimensions...there's no scientific reason why we can't also print in three dimensions.
And just like 2D printing did, 3D printing is exceeding expectations by rapidly becoming both cheaper and better.
Machines that cost more than $100,000 a decade ago are now selling for $1,299.
And they can now print with more than 99 different materials. Not just high quality plastics, many of which are completely recyclable (like milk jugs) or biodegradable. But also some of the most durable and useful physical materials we use in the "analog" world, like wood, glass, rubber, steel, and concrete. Some printers can even handle biological materials like human kidney cells. Or composites of more than two materials that create special properties like heat resistance. Some can make three dimensional objects from ordinary printer paper and even chocolate.
But who would want to print in 3D?
How about an architect building a model? Or a product designer making a prototype? Or a dentist casting a mold?
These are some of the professionals who are already gaining a competitive edge by using 3D printing technology.
(One dentist in Belgium even fabricated an entire titanium jaw and successfully implanted it in an 83-year old patient. He says "there are no limits" to what 3D printing can do in the medical field: "We can replicate bones and even make them stronger than the original. It's like the Six Million Dollar Man.")
I know, I know.
As soon as I heard "3D" I thought it was just a gimmick.
I remember those ridiculous blue and red glasses we wore at the drive-ins in the 1970s. I remember when everyone was talking about "virtual reality" in the 1990s. And I've heard all the hype about today's 3D movies and 3D televisions (personally, they just make me dizzy).
But when it comes to printing, 3D actually makes sense.
In fact, it makes MORE sense than 2D printing does. I'm being completely serious!
Think about it... do we really need to print paper documents anymore? We can scan and email anything. I mean, I suppose we'll always physically sign and stamp our most important documents, like college diplomas and property deeds.
Our world just isn't made of paper anymore. And really, it never was.
Our world is made of physical objects with three-dimensional "resolution."
But right now, the way we create, manipulate, and transport those objects is just as primitive as dispatching a messenger on horseback with a scroll and a wax seal.
And that's all about to change.
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