3D Printing

A 3D printer does not print with ink; it prints with plastic,, layer by layer.

A 3D printer cost thousands of dollars just a year ago. Today, anyone can afford to print out a vase, or jewelry, or dolls, without owning a machine. You can have it done online. Now ordinary consumers around the world are making everything their own jewelry and action figures.

Following are the pioneer companies and people making 3d printing a reality

 

1. Sculpteo

 

French firm Sculpteo has invested heavily in industrial 3D printers that use not just glass but also ceramics.

 

It even has an iPhone app for creating your designs, and can make a vase based on the profile of a user's head. Online printing firm Shapeways also has a catalogue of thousands of objects, from iPhone cases to toys that people can order, tweak, then print.

 

Moreau's company will send you a finished model of anything you can design in a computer and upload for roughly $50-$250 dollars. It will even help you sell your work online.

 

And you don't need to be an artist. The company has hired world renowned designers to provide models that you can customize online -- say with the photo of a friend.

 

2.. Makerbot replicator

Bre Pettis will sell you your own 3D printer for less than $1,700.

 

"If you have an idea for something," he said, "and you want to have it pop with great colors, and you want to make it really big, about the size of a loaf of bread, get a Replicator, print it out, make it, go big!"

His company MakerBot's new Replicator adds dual color extruders so that you can print multicolored objects for the first time. And bigger objects, with a push-button interface right on the front.

An entire 5-foot tall castle, every piece of furniture in it and every character on it, came out of a Replicator printer. So did this 4-foot rocket with astronauts

Owners can either replicate the item they want by taking pictures of it, or use a 3D scanner to create a highly accurate model to copy. However, 3D printers are about far more than just replicating items, and owners can also create items from scratch using 3D design software on their computer, or download from thousands of pre-made designs online.

 

3.Printing a human Organ

However, 3D printing does have more practical uses. Mark Frame, an orthopedic surgical trainee at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, recently used 3D printing firm Shapeways and CT-scan information to create a 3D model of a fractured forearm to practise an operation.Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago

 

4.Continuum Fashion

Continuum Fashion is Mary Huang and Jenna Fizel which use digital technologies to create distinctive bespoke design.

"The future of fashion, and the future of consumer products in general, lies not only in more advanced technologies and materials, but also in reevaluating the very infrastructure of design, manufacture, and retail. By blending rapid fabrication, interactive software, and the accessibility of the web, we can let individuals participate directly in the design and production process. "

This company is still in beta modeIt makes 3d printed clothes It also has got an app that helps you design your own clothes and have it fit to your measuremens