3D Printing Marvels
Here are but a few marvels using 3D printing:
• A 3D printed bust and face mask of President Obama, made with
help from a 3D scanner, is the first
such portrait of a sitting president
to be added to the Smithsonian's
National Portrait Gallery.
• Several U.S. art museums are now
exhibiting 3D-printed sculpture.
• At the International
Manufacturing Technology Show
in Chicago in September, Local
Motors 3D printed a plastic car
called the Strati (Italian for layers)
that will able to be totally custom-
ized.
• The 3D printing of workable weap-
ons has prompted ethical discus-
sions and possible legislation in
The Smithsonian's National Portrait
the U.S.
Gallery includes this 3D-printed bust
• The U.S. Army uses 3D printers on of President Obama.
its frontlines to replicate needed
parts cheaply and efficiently.
• Students at Michigan Technological University in Houghton added
solar panels to portable 3D printers for use in remote Third World
regions. Elsewhere, others invented compact 3D-printable solar
panels that are affordable and efficient.
• Edible food has been
printed by 3D printers.
NASA is working on cre-
ating pizzas printable in
space.
• Medicine is being trans-
formed by 3D printing.
Recently in Beijing,
doctors inserted a
3D-printed vertebrae
In China, a surgeon implanted a 3D-printed verte-
brae into a 12-year-old boy.
(made of bio "ink"
made of living cells) into a 12-year-old boy with cancer. In 2001, the
first 3D-printed prosthetic jaw was implanted in the Netherlands.
Customized hearing aids produced by 3D printers have been made
for a while. Elsewhere, researchers are working on 3D-bioprinted
ears and a windpipe. Eventually, bio tissues will be developed to
create usable organs. Currently, doctors can 3D scan a patient's
heart or other organ and use an exact replica to find ways to repair
the real one.
• Through e-Nable, a worldwide volunteer network, people are print-
ing prosthetic arms and hands for people they don't even know for
about $50 for each device —
and then sharing the computer
files so others can adapt them.
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able to print implant guides
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• A designer recently printed a
kippah made of interlocking Jewish stars on a 3D printer — and is
selling them online.
• A Latvian company produced Airdog, a 3D-printed drone that fol-
lows extreme sports enthusiasts to take ultimate selfies.
• In Bahrain, large-scale 3D printing using sandstone-like material
yielded coral-shaped structures to heal damaged reefs.
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