March 21, 2011

Cool Collector # Technology Files

The 3d printer, a couple of years ago this sounded very futuristic. Now we are not far from the situation where consumers have this technology at home between the other computer equipment! A logical next step is people experimenting with bizarre ideas! Like printing bones! I was reading this article about a 3d expert who gives classes about this technology to students. He always asks for good ideas and materials to print with. One of the teams (composed of Juliana Meira do Valle and Michael Storey) approached him after class, “We would like to print in bone as our project!”  Juliana is a DXArts/Art major and Michael is a Mechanical Engineering major.
“We’d like to print in bone!”
“What?” “Why?”
“I want to print bones or animals that never existed!” “Do you think it’s possible?”
“Sure, OK!”
And so it happend! Read more about this bizarre idea here! I think it's a very exciting experiment, creates a lot new questions!

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