Alex Buscemi
The future is now. And while we don’t have all of the marvels that many futurists predicted we’d have — looking at you, flying cars — other technological advancements have revolutionized what we once thought possible. Like printing out a realistic molding of your brain.
3D printers can do some pretty incredible things. People are even printing out their own limbs — all from the comfort of their homes (Did we mention the home itself is also 3D-printed?)
Keep going for 25 amazing things made possible by 3D printers.
1. I Recently Had A Full Head Mri. Using Free Software I Was Able To Pluck My Brain Out And Turn It Into A Desk Light
2. A Loggerhead Turtle Got Into A Boating Accident, Resulting In The Loss Of A Majority Of Its Lower Beak. Scientists Gave It A New 3D Printed Titanium Beak. It Looks So Badass. He Is Now A Cyborg Turtle
3. Was Born Without An Arm So I Built Myself My Own Eletronic 3D Printed Arm. This Is Me Holding An Egg
4. 3D Printed Clip-On Temperature Indicator For The Shower Pipe To Show When It’s Warm Or Too Hot. I’m Disabled So I Can’t Always Tell Temperature With My Hand, And I Didn’t Want To Use One Of Those LED Showerheads Because Electricity + Water = Bad
5. Who Ever Designed This Thing I Printed It… I Have Never Been So Horrified And In Love At The Same Time!!
6. I Made These Spikes To Stop “Helpful” People From Grabbing Me Without Consent
7. After Three Failed Attempts, I Present To You: Invisiball In Spectrum
8. A Redditor Has Built Me A New Finger After Insurance Turned Me Down For One. They Took An Existing Design And Customized It With My Feedback And Made Me Whole Again. It Should Be Known That Limb Labs Wanted 15 To 20 Thousand Dollars For One
9. (Oc) I Made The Jetpacks For My Light-Year Suit Everything Is 3D Printed!
10. I May Have A *slight* Addiction To Printing Covers For My Bionic Arm
11. Where The Sidewalk Ends
12. My 8 Year Old Asked For A Nintendo Switch For Christmas. Prusa I3 Mk3s To The Rescue! We Did Buy Her An Actual Switch, But She Must Endure This First
13. I Made A ‘Toothpaste Mover’ So You Can Push Toothpaste From One Costco-Sized Tube Into A Lil Travel Tube
14. Finally Finished The Wife’s Fully Motorised Mk49 Rescue Suit 3D Printed On Ender 5 Plus Bondtech Ddx Direct Drive
15. I Hate Flossing, But Flossers Are A Waste Of Plastic, So I 3D Printed A Reusable One!
16. Finished Printing The Oof Stones
17. Steal the keys!
18. My New Favourite 3D Print
19. My Step-Son’s Soccer Team Won First In A Tournament But They Didn’t Get A Trophy So I Designed And Printed Him One
20. One Lid To Rule Them All
21. Proof That Perseverance Pays Off…my Full Iron Man Suit, Printed In Many, Many Pieces On My Tiny Up Mini Over 6 Months
22. My Wife’s 10 Year Old Brother Got A 3D Printer For Christmas. I Joked That He Can Build Me A Playstation. Every Day I’ve Been Asking Him When It’ll Be Ready. Today He Brought Me This. Best Present Ever
23. I Found A Mini Nuclear Power Plant On Thingiverse And Modified It To Fit On My Humidifier
24. Simple Design For A 7 Year Anniversary Present. The Pennies Are Dated With Years That Are Significant To Us
25. I Modeled, Printed, And Painted This Little House To Express My Frustration With The Housing Market
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