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3D Printers Create Sound-Wave Rings And A Wedding Dress (3ders.org)
An anonymous reader writers: A Japanese company is using a 3D printer to generate unique rings shaped like the sound wave of each customer's voice. They generate the digital designs from three-second recordings that customers upload to their web site, and can print out the $300 rings in different colors and sizes, using either silver, gold, or 14K rose paint. 3Ders.org points out that another jeweler can now actually print a ring shaped like a customer's face, while a fashion designer in Sri Lanka teamed up with a 3D printing company for an even romantic product: a wedding dress. "The ultimate result of this was a super excited bride that not only had an especially memorable day but walked down the aisle with the only dress of its kind in the country."
Is this a story or just spam?
3D printers can print junk that no one needs. News at 11.
Print a plastic ring (They use the Ultimaker 3D printer) and coat it. ... (well, find dupes with disposable income)
PROFIT!
How about a pencil cup, toothpick holder, or a keyfob made from a CT scan?
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some things are valued because of their difficult to make uniqueness, usually expensive. and such unique things are usually connected with personal relationships esp romantic ones. esp weddings. hence hand embroidered personally designed wedding dresses etc, idea is (ideally)one couple one person forever and ever.
so why connect an easy to make easy to copy things with such events? that is cheap (i am not meaning just money).
while 1st ever 3d printed wedding dress is unique, next ones aren't .
hand crafted ring shaped like a face/sound waves is unique , easily mass produced 3d printed ones aren't.
Son, you are going to have a very difficult time ahead in the world that's being built for you.
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Crochet seems pretty close to manually 3-D printing fabric, although the present lack of true crochet machines is surprising to me (although only mildly so, given my experience with it).
TFA does not say much about how a dress can be 3D printed, and how much manual work is required to assemble it.
Do you think that our parents were like: "Ooooh, what I just printed is sort of like a newspaper, but it's the only one like this in the whole world!" Now I wonder what is the average lifespan of a printed page, from printer to bin. My guess is that 3D printed crap will converge to that same average lifespan, and we will treat it with the same (lack of) reverence.
I was hoping the voice print was something like Edison's record cylinders, preferably in metal. You could wear an actual playable recording instead of an oddly shaped blob.
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Actually the rings are probably casted in silver and are not only coated by the metal. Usually the process for this kind of jewelery is like this: 3D Model --> casting wax --> make negative of wax model in plaster --> cast precious metal in to negative model --> finish product (polish/highlight/...) So the material worth of the jewelery can easily be quite high if you cast e.g. rose silver... The process is pretty well described at i.materialise: https://i.materialise.com/3d-p...
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My wife got me one of these rings (no affiliation) when my old one stopped fitting right:
evernote site:onemodel.org
The price was sensible, the ideas were romantic, and it's good for the longevity of one's finger.
A Free, fast personal organizer for touch typists: onemodel
Sorry, I goofed and didn't see what was in my paste buffer. The url for the ring is is really:
http://wefido.com/
A Free, fast personal organizer for touch typists: onemodel
It's newsworthy because 3D-printing. If only they accepted bitcoin, that'd qualify them for another feature article.
No, not "plaster" in the conventional sense, as "plaster of Paris" (calcium sulphate hemi-hydrate, hydrated to gypsum, calcium sulphate di-hydrate). The gypsum would decompose (to the hemi-hydrate at about 200 centigrade, and to anhydrite a hundred or so above that) as soon as you poured in the molten "white metal" (M.P. ~400C), "bronze" (M.P. ~650C), "silver" (M.P. ~890C, for "sterling" silver), "gold" (M.P. ~1000C, depending on grade).
It may come as a white powder which you mix with water and then sets, but it's not going to be a "plaster". I'd guess a cement-based mix, but there are other possibilities.
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