Next Big Thing in Designing : 3D Printing
When we want to replicate something the conventional method is to take xerox copy. But no more, it is now possible to replicate any thing in three dimension. this is going to revolutionize our life the way PC, Internet and smart phone did in 80s, 90s and '00s.
What are the possible application of 3D printing, Jason Lopez, a Hollywood Special Effect expert had shown the way. He did actually printed near actual Vampires for Breaking Dawn part I and part II of Twilight Saga movies.
In US as a wild spin off of the Inkjet printer, a 3D printer unit cost as low as US$ 250 to US$2500. The toner for these printers is various colored plastics , which the print head mets into thin layers onto a surface, and it lays down layer upon layer over minutes or hours-depending upon the size of the job-creating anything from toys to auto parts to jewelry to house wares to nearly anything imaginable that is smaller than a breadbox and made of plastic.
Home #D printers have its own limitation as it uses plastic and nylon 'printer inks' called filament. But now professional grade #D printers have also come which in many of the US cities are available as copy machine at FEDEX Kinko's which may print ceramics, wood substitute, carbon fiber, bronze, steel, cellulose and even food and human tissue. In industries from manufacturing to medicine, architecture to toys these three dimensional printers are changing the business world by way of revolutionizing business models built around physical goods. The earliest commercial application of 3d printing technology has been hearing aids and braces. Millions of hearing aids are being used today, devices custom molded contours fit the ear canal exactly. A company called Invisalign today creates some 50000 transparent plastic braces again, custom molded to each mouth -every day via 3D printing.
All in all, 3D printing explodes the old economy of scale that saw physically manufactured goods only as high volume, un customizable, generically designed commodities. There is nothing more customized than the human body itself. In that sense 3D printing is set to change the field of medicine in the coming time.
But there are certain dangers associated with 3D technology. Recently a controversy taken place when
a Texas based group Defense distributed that it had developed plastic, 3D printed handgun, they called it The liberator. It posted the computer aided design files for building The Liberator as a free download on the Internet. The US State Department soon came into action and asked Defense Distributed to take down the CAD files (the digital blue prints) the 3D printer uses to make the printed object - little like an MP3 file for recorded song, they felt that it will be a violation of international arms trafficking regulation.
Another exciting area of 3D printing is in food and bio. Researchers in Netherlands are currently studying how to grow cells in lab that would print out as a piece of meat that tastes like grass fed beef-even reproducing those succulent juices at the heart of good steak.
This again bring us back to the Vampires, Lopes, the Hollywood Special Effects Designer, says they did not just 3D print Twilight mannequins and replicas. They also 3D printed custom fit models that were then used to make rubber make up appliances to turn actors into believable, blood feasting teens.
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| one of the simple 3D printer |
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| All these items are printed on 3D printer |
What are the possible application of 3D printing, Jason Lopez, a Hollywood Special Effect expert had shown the way. He did actually printed near actual Vampires for Breaking Dawn part I and part II of Twilight Saga movies.
In US as a wild spin off of the Inkjet printer, a 3D printer unit cost as low as US$ 250 to US$2500. The toner for these printers is various colored plastics , which the print head mets into thin layers onto a surface, and it lays down layer upon layer over minutes or hours-depending upon the size of the job-creating anything from toys to auto parts to jewelry to house wares to nearly anything imaginable that is smaller than a breadbox and made of plastic.
Home #D printers have its own limitation as it uses plastic and nylon 'printer inks' called filament. But now professional grade #D printers have also come which in many of the US cities are available as copy machine at FEDEX Kinko's which may print ceramics, wood substitute, carbon fiber, bronze, steel, cellulose and even food and human tissue. In industries from manufacturing to medicine, architecture to toys these three dimensional printers are changing the business world by way of revolutionizing business models built around physical goods. The earliest commercial application of 3d printing technology has been hearing aids and braces. Millions of hearing aids are being used today, devices custom molded contours fit the ear canal exactly. A company called Invisalign today creates some 50000 transparent plastic braces again, custom molded to each mouth -every day via 3D printing.
All in all, 3D printing explodes the old economy of scale that saw physically manufactured goods only as high volume, un customizable, generically designed commodities. There is nothing more customized than the human body itself. In that sense 3D printing is set to change the field of medicine in the coming time.
But there are certain dangers associated with 3D technology. Recently a controversy taken place when
a Texas based group Defense distributed that it had developed plastic, 3D printed handgun, they called it The liberator. It posted the computer aided design files for building The Liberator as a free download on the Internet. The US State Department soon came into action and asked Defense Distributed to take down the CAD files (the digital blue prints) the 3D printer uses to make the printed object - little like an MP3 file for recorded song, they felt that it will be a violation of international arms trafficking regulation.
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| Be careful a gun can be printed on 3D printer ! |
Another exciting area of 3D printing is in food and bio. Researchers in Netherlands are currently studying how to grow cells in lab that would print out as a piece of meat that tastes like grass fed beef-even reproducing those succulent juices at the heart of good steak.
This again bring us back to the Vampires, Lopes, the Hollywood Special Effects Designer, says they did not just 3D print Twilight mannequins and replicas. They also 3D printed custom fit models that were then used to make rubber make up appliances to turn actors into believable, blood feasting teens.
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