They were 2014's must-have accessory for advertising agency sandpits and labs, but some of us spent the year wondering how 3D printers could deliver for clients and become nice little earners along the way. Now if reports from livescience.com are anything to go by, they could already be a thing of the past, ending up on Gumtree faster than you can say 'jousting sticks'. Whereas today's 3D printers create items from a single material such as plastic, glass, metal, chocolate or

They were 2014's must-have accessory for advertising agency sandpits and labs, but some of us spent the year wondering how 3D printers could deliver for clients and become nice little earners along the way. Now if reports from livescience.com are anything to go by, they could already be a thing of the past, ending up on Gumtree faster than you can say 'jousting sticks'. Whereas today's 3D printers create items from a single material such as plastic, glass, metal, chocolate or