First Selfies, Now Shapies? Scanning Booths Capture the Moment in 3-D(bloomberg.com)

First Selfies, Now Shapies? Scanning Booths Capture the Moment in 3-D

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-29/first-selfies-now-shapies-scanning-booths-capture-the-moment-in-3-d.html

3 comments

Shapeways did this at the Museum of Art and Design in NYC for a 3D printing exhibit.[1] It was basically a similar scanning setup that the author described of standing on a lazy susan while being scanned by a Kinect. I'm not sure why this would suddenly cost $180,000 to turn it in to a booth.

[1] http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/2322-shapeways-body-s...

lilbola12 anni fa

I was there. The device they used was a piece of crap which used a (no shit) bicycle tube to turn the lazy susan. The bicycle tube would repeatedly fall off and screw up the scan.

Pretty much analogous to the way the rest of their business is operated.

hoopism12 anni fa

Jeff Koons was making Shapies a long time ago (WARNING NSFW) http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/10/28/kama-sutra-glass-scul...

touristtam12 anni fa

shameless plug: there is a company who is doing this in Paris (France): http://thevibrantproject.com/la-cour-bleue/

On the other hand I believe much more into industrial application than personal one. One of the advancement in the field: "Liquid phase 3D printing for quickly manufacturing conductive metal objects with low melting point alloy ink" [http://tech.scichina.com:8082/sciEe/EN/abstract/abstract5147...]