▲A war-wounded man from Yemen uses his 3D-printed prosthetic limb to work a mobile phone.

▲Designer Marco Mattia Cristofori, of the German 3D printer manufacturer BigRep, created a nearly completely 3D-printed e-motorcycle, called "NERA."

▲He even took it for a spin at the Tempelhof Airport in Berlin!

▲In 2014, Yoshimoto Imura became the first man to be arrested in Japan for illegal possession of two plastic handguns he created himself using 3D printing technology.

▲Sushi Singularity, which is 3D-printed sushi, was on display at the SXSW conference in Texas.

▲Israeli scientists from Tel Aviv University have reportedly created the world's first 3D-printed, vascularized engineered heart.

▲That means this tiny heart actually has blood vessels!

▲Pictured is a 3D-printed carbon fiber commuter bicycle.

▲Would you wear this pair of Adidas shoes printed by a 3D printer?

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A 3D-printing robot works at printing a carbon fiber bicycle frame at Arevo Labs in Santa Clara, California.

▲Look at the 3D printing robot in action!

▲Yhnova uses a construction 3D printing technique known as BatiPrint3D.

▲Researchers from the University of Nantes, in France, kicked off a 3D-printed social housing building called "Yhnova."

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The M1 3D printer at Carbon in Redwood City, California rivals the intricate creations of nature itself.

Not convinced of this tech revolution? The future is here: Meet the robots of the world.

▲Grecia the toucan lost most of his upper beak in an attack, but he's now able to eat with his 3D-printed beak at Zoo Ave animal sanctuary in Alajuela, Costa Rica.

▲Gaetan Richard, founder of the Miam Factory 3D printing chocolate company, creates something you didn't know you needed: a chocolate beer bottle.

▲Airgo's 3D-printed prototype of their Orion long-haul aircraft seats certainly look like an upgrade from coach.

▲These are the world's first functional 3D-printed offices.

▲At the Twinkind 3D printing studio in Berlin, you can make your own mini-me.

▲Taiwanese engineer Chang Hsien-Liang lost his forearm in an accident, and was deeply unsatisfied with his prosthetic options. So he designed and built his own prosthetic forearm using 3D printing technology!

▲Dubai led the charge on creating these 3D-printed buildings, which certainly bear the image of the future.

▲Look at the detail of that 3D-printed plastic sole!

▲Printed treats you can eat! At the Iceason shop in Shanghai, these little characters are made of strawberry milk-flavored ice cream, and crafted by a 3D printer.

▲An Estonian 3D tech company decided to create the ultimate pregnancy souvenir, giving parents the opportunity to touch their baby before it is even born.

▲An artificial 3D-printed axis, the first to ever be successfully implanted into the spine of a bone cancer patient, is seen implanted in a model at Peking University Third Hospital in Beijing.

▲Here French engineer and professional violinist Laurent Bernadac poses with a 3D-printed violin made of transparent resin, called the "3Dvarius."

▲After taking careful images, they print out 3D fetus models so detailed that you can count all their fingers and start to see whose nose the baby has!

▲During a tour of Techmer PM, a plastics manufacturing company in Tennessee, Barack Obama took a look at a 3D-printed Shelby Cobra.

▲You first take a 360-degree photographic scan of a person, then render it into a 3D digital model (and retouch the model to meet the requirements for printing). The printing machine then uses this digital model to produce a high-resolution solid figure.

▲Everyone and their nextdoor neighbor knows that the world is changing exponentially faster with each new day. But one of the most fascinating revolutions happening in labs around the world is the rise of 3D printing. From things you can eat to replacements for feet, and everything in between, click through to see some of the most impressive things 3D printers have ever made.

The most impressive things ever made with a 3D printer

For one, a vascularized heart—hot off the press

23/09/24 por StarsInsider

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Everyone and their nextdoor neighbor knows that the world is changing exponentially faster with each new day. But one of the most fascinating revolutions happening in labs around the world is the rise of 3D printing. From things you can eat to replacements for feet, and everything in between, click through to see some of the most impressive things 3D printers have ever made.