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3D Printers Create Sound-Wave Rings And A Wedding Dress (3ders.org)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the one-sound-to-rule-them-all dept.

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."

5 of 27 comments (clear)

  1. Just as I suspected by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    3D printers can print junk that no one needs. News at 11.

  2. Impressive - 10 cents worth of plastic into $300! by BenJeremy · · Score: 2

    Print a plastic ring (They use the Ultimaker 3D printer) and coat it. ... (well, find dupes with disposable income)
    PROFIT!

  3. romantic difficult uniqueness vs cheap easy copy by sittingnut · · Score: 2

    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.

  4. Re:Hmm by Deadolus · · Score: 2

    I agree this is hardly any news, the concept of using "sound waves" for jewelery is used by multiple other vendors, there are even people selling basically the slashverdised product on etsy: https://www.etsy.com/de/search... No news here...

  5. Re:Impressive - 10 cents worth of plastic into $30 by Deadolus · · Score: 4, Informative

    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...