Can you imagine trusting Microsoft and HP to securely and accurately "print up" your medications at home? Many of us can't even get the combo to reliably print out directions from Mapquest. Still, it's a cool vision -- the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that makes the technology industry so much fun.

The idea here is that people one day may be able to buy a standard sets of chemicals that can be combined in standard formulas to create drugs in the same way that they use ink today to print up color documents, says Microsoft's said Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, in a speech in Jakarta, Indonesia on Friday.

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