5 Ways That 3-D Printing is Going to Shake Up Retail

5. Savvy retailers will embrace 3-D printing (and have fun with it). Take, for example, the "Let's Create Pottery" app from Infinite Dreams, which invites users to design pottery and submit their designs to be 3-D printed. Shapeways also holds 3-D printing contests, using them to highlight different focuses of 3-D printing's potential and inviting talent and judges from various creative fields, such as 3-D animators, to participate. The creative communities surrounding these concepts are quick to embrace the fun of retail challenges, not to mention the opportunities. Look for increases in contests and new avenues of exposure for artists and designers of new products, with their creations cross-promoted via established retailers.