Mass customization arrives
So the dreams of my buddy the hard schemer have come actual in the form of a internet site referred to as Shapeways. Shapeways uses a three-dimensional printer to provide 3D pix uploaded to their site after which they sell the uploader the finished product. Three-D printing has been round for more than one years. Industrial designers use it for prototypes. It's a quite cool generation, it truly is for certain. Where Shapeways takes it a step further is that they're beginning up access to this technology to every person with an internet connection.
If this have been a carrier for the alternate most effective, I ought to upload a version, they might print it out and mail me the finished prototype. Now it is it's been opened to the general public, you may do the identical issue. Don't understand the way to use modeling software program? No problem, because Shapeways has an internet application that does the modeling for you. Although it's nevertheless in a beta form, their provider now has a common prototype that you can personalize for your specifications after which purchase for your self. For now, their presenting is constrained to some thing they may be calling a Light Poem. But what's viable inside the form of that Light Poem is mind-bending.
The Light Poem is a desk lamp that seems like a candle holder. It is largely made from textual content that you upload and lay out with the help of web utility. Here's a video that indicates how it's executed.
Here's what the prototype seems like and inside the historical past at the display screen is its laptop rendering.
Here's how the Light Poems look in life.
Stay tuned, I simply joined this website and I am going to make a Light Poem of my very own.