{"id":14150,"date":"2012-01-27T16:31:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T16:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=14150"},"modified":"2012-01-27T16:31:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T16:31:52","slug":"3d-printing-ted-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/01\/27\/3d-printing-ted-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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3-D printing<\/a> seems like science fiction but is a reality that could have a profound effect on our lives.<\/p>\n

It is essentially the process of creating real-life three dimensional objects from a digital file on a computer.<\/p>\n

There is a long history of movie technology ‘predicting’ the future, such as the tablet computers<\/a> in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) or the gesture-based UI’s<\/a> in Minority Report (2002).<\/p>\n

If you saw Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol<\/a> recently, amongst the gadgets the IMF team used was a 3D printer in order to create masks.<\/p>\n

Fantasy? Well, Japanese company REAL-f<\/a> have actually developed a 3-D printer that can make a detailed replica of your face<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is handy if you want to go to a Halloween party as yourself, but it also illuminates how digital technologies have the potential to literally shape our physical world.<\/p>\n

In the same way that the development of the printing press<\/a> and\u00a0moveable type<\/a>\u00a0galvanised seismic human epochs like the Renaissance<\/a> and Enlightenment<\/a>, this has the potential to do the same for our age.<\/p>\n

But how exactly does it work?<\/p>\n

Lisa Harouni<\/a> is the co-founder and CEO of Digital Forming<\/a>, a company that creates the digital software used to run 3D printing processes.<\/p>\n

She gave a TED talk explaining how it all works:<\/p>\n