Fasotech Begins Taking Orders To 3D Print Your Unborn Baby
As far as wacky baby mementos go, this one from Fasotec and Hiroo Ladies Clinic takes the biscuit. They’ve come up with a service that gives newbie parents the opportunity to own a 3D model of their baby in the earliest stages of development: as a miniature 3D-printed replica of the fetus.
3D-Printed Lower Jaw Used In Jaw Transplant Surgery
Showing the technology is not just limited to producing physical 3D models of your in-game avatar or other worldly creations – as our look at Mineways delves into; recreating your favourite Minecraft builds into model form – 3D printing continues to astound us in its real-world applications. Now, said to be the first operation of its kind, doctors in the Netherlands have successfully completed an 84-year old woman's jaw transplant by replacing her existing lower jaw - said to be inflicted with chronic bone infection - with a patient-specific, 3D-printed, titanium-based replacement.