Kelly happens to be a rather dedicated Breitling watch lover, and has a long history with precision tools and machines.

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Much of the precision machinery, computer-controlled machines that can machine anything you want, are already there.

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But for those not yet willing to shell out thousands of dollars for their own home 3D-printer, Shapeways offers another path to bring software models into reality, asking consumers and retailers to upload their designs shipping the results back to them, printed on high-end machines with a level of precision and in materials that no consumer 3D printer can yet achieve.

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High precision "dual use" items such as milling machines, electron beam welders, and high strength aluminum all turned up missing.

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Two years ago, Adrian Allen, group sales director of Technicut, which makes precision-cutting machine tools, decided to try to sell some machines to Boeing.

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