Posts Tagged "3D printing"

by , 103 days ago

Doctors replace woman’s jaw with 3D printed model

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In the first of its kind, an 83 year old woman who was suffering from a serious jaw infection has had her entire lower mandible replaced with a 3D printed model. The surgery was carried out by a team of medical researchers from Belgium and the Netherlands. Due to the…

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by , 150 days ago

A tour of Microsoft’s model shop and 3D printed prototypes [video]

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Josh Topolsky and the guys over at The Verge gained exclusive access to Microsoft‘s model shop, to show us the process of how prototypes are designed in Redmond. The user experience designer, Karsten Aagaard, explains during the tour that the team tries to get the 3D prototypes printed in “real-time”….

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