How to innovate with an inkjet printer

Your home office could soon be a production facility for state-of-the-art electronics

Your inkjet printer is capable of amazing things.
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Need a new chip for your debit card? In the near future, you could print it yourself — and you won't even need a fancy 3D printer.

Recently, scientists figured out a way to use an ordinary inkjet printer to create flexible computer chips. And soon enough, you might only need a new printer cartridge and a special piece of foil to create your own.

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Erin Blakemore

Erin Blakemore is a journalist from Boulder, Colorado. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Time, Smithsonian.com, mental_floss, Popular Science and more.