My fascination with 3D creation continues.
A friend pointed me to Hammacher Schlemmer -
a mainstream catalog selling unique items. http://www.hammacher.com.
Guess What?? Hammacher Schlemmer offers a 3D Printer! Here’s the link: http://www.hammacher.com/Product/Default.aspx?sku=83543&refsku=86006&xsp=1&promo=xsells.
It is advertised that this 3D printer can print an iPhone case, for instance. For crafters, Hammer Schlemmer offers a
3D Pen: http://www.hammacher.com/Product/86006?promo=search. This pen “extrudes warm thermoplastic that hardens within seconds, allowing the creation of three-dimensional freehand drawings. Artists can download blueprints of various objects” and can use the pen to create, say a 6’ tall Eiffel Tower. What is extraordinary about the Hammacher Schlemmer offerings are that they are consumer products. They are not sponsored by an institution, a laboratory, or a commercial enterprise. An ordinary person like me can 3D print real things. The Eiffel Tower pictured here is a photo of an object that sits on my bookshelf, a remembrance of my honeymoon in Paris. So now, I can just whip out my pen, swirl swoosh swirl and voila! I can create a solid object. JAW DROP. This is so amazing that my mind can hardly grasp it. I mean, when I was a kid, I played with cut-out paper dolls. The majority of the current population probably doesn’t even know what I’m talking about. To think that children these days can draw a solid three dimensional GI Jane or even an entire army --whoa.
Sanya Industrial Innovation Design, a company in China, just 3D printed a BOAT. Like the Rapid Racer (from my earlier post), the boat emerged from the printer in a single piece. It really floats and can seat 2 people. Read the story here: http://www.ecns.cn/visual/hd/2014/07-15/43390.shtml. This technology is astonishing. It's like the invention of the printing press. The printing press had a revolutionary impact on fashion - moving fashion from portraiture to illustrations and stories for regular folk. Could the the 3D printer be equally as revolutionary or might it be like Siri (she isn't changing my world) or the Segway?
A friend pointed me to Hammacher Schlemmer -
a mainstream catalog selling unique items. http://www.hammacher.com.
Guess What?? Hammacher Schlemmer offers a 3D Printer! Here’s the link: http://www.hammacher.com/Product/Default.aspx?sku=83543&refsku=86006&xsp=1&promo=xsells.
It is advertised that this 3D printer can print an iPhone case, for instance. For crafters, Hammer Schlemmer offers a
3D Pen: http://www.hammacher.com/Product/86006?promo=search. This pen “extrudes warm thermoplastic that hardens within seconds, allowing the creation of three-dimensional freehand drawings. Artists can download blueprints of various objects” and can use the pen to create, say a 6’ tall Eiffel Tower. What is extraordinary about the Hammacher Schlemmer offerings are that they are consumer products. They are not sponsored by an institution, a laboratory, or a commercial enterprise. An ordinary person like me can 3D print real things. The Eiffel Tower pictured here is a photo of an object that sits on my bookshelf, a remembrance of my honeymoon in Paris. So now, I can just whip out my pen, swirl swoosh swirl and voila! I can create a solid object. JAW DROP. This is so amazing that my mind can hardly grasp it. I mean, when I was a kid, I played with cut-out paper dolls. The majority of the current population probably doesn’t even know what I’m talking about. To think that children these days can draw a solid three dimensional GI Jane or even an entire army --whoa.
Sanya Industrial Innovation Design, a company in China, just 3D printed a BOAT. Like the Rapid Racer (from my earlier post), the boat emerged from the printer in a single piece. It really floats and can seat 2 people. Read the story here: http://www.ecns.cn/visual/hd/2014/07-15/43390.shtml. This technology is astonishing. It's like the invention of the printing press. The printing press had a revolutionary impact on fashion - moving fashion from portraiture to illustrations and stories for regular folk. Could the the 3D printer be equally as revolutionary or might it be like Siri (she isn't changing my world) or the Segway?