Nervous System's Kinematics Dress
It may look like just a pretty dress, but it was far from simple to make. Design studio Nervous System used a system called Kinematics to compress the project by 85 percent. The dress came out as one single folded piece of fabric, with 2,279 unique triangular patterns.
CES was chock-full of 3-D printers—some big, some small, some for food, and some for prototyping outdoor gear. More exciting to the casual passer-by, the booths were chock-full of printed wares. Take a look at some of our favorites in this gallery.
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An Automatic Suture Device from Formlabs
3-D printing is known for its frivolous plastic trinkets, but it's also a powerful tool for innovators to rapidly prototype. Formlabs had one pretty amazing example at its booth this year. An engineer named Alex Berry had an idea to build a device that can insert sutures during medical procedures in order to cut down on pinpricks and unnecessary punctures. To quickly and cheaply validate his designs, Berry used the Form 1+ printer.
Food, from XYZprinting
Here's hoping the 3-D-printed food of the future doesn't look quite so, well, strange. XYZ demoed its latest suite of 3-D printers, including a food printer. The results were neat dino shapes, but odd colors. The printer essentially squirts dough into pre-programmed shapes, which you then need to pop in the oven. The company claims the printer will cost less than $2,000 and is slated for release later in the year.
3-D-Printed Drum Kit From 3DSystems
At first, I thought the band was just a way of getting the attention of passersby. But then, I took a closer look at realized all of the instruments—drums, guitar, and keyboard—had at least some element 3-D-printed. The components were very detailed and complex, which the creator, Olaf Diegel says, is only possible with a 3-D printer. I'm no discerning ear, but it sounded pretty good to me.
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