Three Amazing Advancements In Printing Technology
Wednesday night’s The Best House aired a very cool segment showing what it deemed to be the “Top 3 Amazing Printing Technologies”. Here they are:
1. The 3D Printer
The printer shown in this clip it Z Corporation’s ZPrinter 450. The Z450 can take a model on a computer and print it out in 3D. The examples shown in the video include a life-like reproduction of a melon and a model of a house (including the interior of the building!). At a price of just under 40 thousand dollars, this printer is “makes color 3D printing accessible to everyone.”
2. The D-Touch Pen
The above video shows us a few demonstrations of Takara’s D-Touch technology. The key to this technology are tiny patterns, invisible to the human eye, which are printed onto paper. The tiny patterns, which can be printed over with other images, contain data that corresponds to a certain sound clip from a box attached to the D-Touch pen. This technology was originally developed to create cool books for toddlers, but it is now being used to create helpful tools for the visually impaired.
3. Micro Printing
The tiny book shown in this clip is 0.95mm by 0.95mm, and the letters printed on its pages are a mere 0.12mm in height! While such a tiny book might be useless, this printing technology hardly is. It is currently being used to make new paper currencies that are harder to counterfeit.
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Lately, the buzz around 3D printing has been growing. It is an absolutely ingenious and fascinating technology that will revolutionize countless industries. Incredible.
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How soon before it’s used to print off 3D porn, I wonder….
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All three printing technologies are great. Especially the 3D Printer can meet enormous needs in industrial fields.
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This stuff (referring to the 3D-printing) is extremely old (old in terms of 10 yrs). This is the so-called “rapid prototyping” in manufacturing industry. In the video, they showed they were using plaster. 10 yrs ago, when I was an intern in motor company, they already have the technology to do rapid prototyping in metals. It is really nothing new.
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Well, your note makes us realize these three technologies are already settled conventional technologies.
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I have seen similar before, in terms of using computer-guided tools to carve objects, but it seems that the interesting change here is the addition of colour to the process – probably not something able to be done with metals.
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