At its recent “Further with Ford” event, Ford Motor Co. announced that it would collaborate with 3D printing startup Carbon3D to produce high-quality automotive-grade parts. This would ordinarily be another (yawn) example of a company incorporating 3D technology into the manufacturing process — except for the fact that Carbon3D, which came out of stealth mode earlier this year, has come up with a way to make 3D printing 100 times faster than current speeds. Yes, that’s right. A tiny startup purports to have solved one of manufacturers’ greatest frustrations with 3D technology. As CEO Joseph DeSimone said earlier this year at a TED talk, “There are mushrooms that grow faster than 3D printed parts.” DeSimone, to make a long story short, got the idea for the innovation from the 1991 movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day. More on that in a moment.

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