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3D Printing Saved Baby’s Life

3-dprinting-saves-babys-lifeMuch of the time, technologies like 3D printing are used for non-essential reasons like creating plastic toys or models. However, recent news shows that this tech was used to print out an airway splint. This splint saved a three-month old baby’s life. That is pretty essential, don’t you think?

This life-saving procedure combined the best of medical knowledge and technology to create a synthetic part that could be used in a infant boy who couldn’t breathe on his own.

The little boy is named Kaiba Gionfriddo. He’s from Youngstown, Ohio and was born with a condition called tracheobronchomalacia. It’s very rare and only one in 2,200 babies have it. This defect makes it so the airways are so weak that they collapse when trying to breathe or cough.

It was discovered that Kaiba had this condition when his parents were at a restaurant. The little boy just stopped breathing and turned blue. He was saved when CPR was performed but it was quickly found out that he had a chronic condition. Before 3D printing could be used to help him, he was placed on a breathing machine at Akron Children’s Hospital. The boy was given a bleak prognosis.

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3D Printing Service Could Make You a Stormtrooper

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It seems the whole idea of 3D printing is really taking off all over the place, even in unexpected locales. In fact, Disney’s Hollywood Studios will soon be offering visitors to the park in Florida the chance to be immortalized as a Stormtrooper or in the famous frozen in carbonite pose Han Solo was so unfortunate to don. It’s a true must for any Star Wars fan!

All of this is made possible thanks to a 3D printing service, which was available during Star Wars Weekends in the park. It ran between the last half of May and June 9th. The carbonite offering was available last year but the Stormtrooper figurine offering is new for this year.

The technology is actually quite sophisticated. In fact, it’s using a much higher resolution than previously available on the consumer market and offers up a rather detailed and clear scan of the person’s head before it’s printed out in the Star Wars figurine.

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3D Scanning Makes Detroit Tread Shoes Possible

3d scanning for shoe designTechnology never fails to amaze, especially as it relates to 3D printing and scanning. Recently, a shoe that encapsulated everything there’s to love about Detroit was on display at the University of Michigan. The project began in 2011 as a part of an Integrated Product Development class and ended up as an actual product for a new company, Detroit Treads.

The designer of the shoes is Neil Zemba. He graduated from Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and has compiled a team that includes top designers and kinesiologists, ensuring the sandals promote optimum foot health and stability. 3D scanning was instrumental in making this design possible.

In fact, Zemba used a 3D foot model. He started out with the Kinect then used the HandyScan laser scanner for greater accuracy. In addition to the utilization of this technology, Zemba also used pressure graphs from Jordan and Nike to pinpoint specifically what areas of the foot hit the ground the hardest and need the most support.  This allowed Zemba and his team to design a sandal that was formed to the foot in the most comfortable way possible.

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Sydney Opera House Gets the 3D Scanning Treatment

sydney opera houseAs you likely know by now, 3D scanning has a multitude of uses. In fact, it can be used to capture human faces, recreate auto parts, and replicate architecture. It’s the latter option that we’re going to talk about today. In fact, a project called The Scottish Ten is making it their personal goal to capture and recreate models of famous UNESCO World Heritage sites, including the Sydney Opera House in Australia.

The project began in Scotland in collaboration with Historic Scotland, the heritage agency within the Scottish government; CyArk, a digital heritage organization; and The Glasgow School of Art’s Digital Design Studio and now it’s moving all over the world to capture historic sites for preservation.

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Applications and Benefits of 3D Scanner in Medical Sector

3D Scanning in Medical applicationsIn the recent few years, 3D scanning has found its wide use in the medical sector. One of the major reasons for the high demand of the 3D scanner is that such types of scanning devices incorporate capabilities of capturing 3D measurements of both face and body parts of the human beings in relatively less time and in hassle-free way. We know that all the people are unique in terms of their physical appearance. Because of this, most of the medical practitioners are using the advanced 3D scanning technologies for creation of customized medical products for fulfilling the needs of the patients.

3D Scanning Devices and Medical Sector

Now, let us have a look over the different medical sectors and medical applications, in which 3D scanner has found their wide uses.

Firstly, 3D scanning devices have found their wide use in the dental sector. This is because; the scanning devices are perfectly suitable for designing of the metal braces, mouth or teeth guards and retainers.

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