Just
when you think that technology is getting more boring by the year (when apple
released the iPhone 5, I thought we’d be getting a hologram keyboard or something
of the sort, but I was disappointed to learn that all they’ve actually changed
was its thickness and height), then comes these two guys, Peter Dilworth and
Maxwell Bogue, with a pen that doodles 3D objects.
That’s
something you don’t see every day: a pen that can actually ‘print’ 3D drawings.
This little 3Doodler, as it’s called by its producing company WobbleWorks, is described
as the world’s first 3D printing pen. It’s kind of like a hot glue gun, since
it releases a fine line of filaments, which cools and solidifies into a stable
structure.
Now 3D
printing is not a very foreign topic to us architecture students. We have a 3D
printer in Kuwait University’s College of Architecture, but this is the first
handheld version of that machine; and one that costs as little as 75$. You can
make basic 3D shapes, or for something a little more exciting, some jewelry or
even a mini Eiffel Tower like the one shown below.
WobbleWorks
surpassed its initial goal of raising 30,000$ in just a few hours after its
project hit Kickstarter; it raised more than three times that amount. Estimated
delivery is in October 2013.
But this
doesn’t impress me so much, a 3D printer that could supply me with a tasty
pizza pie and a side order of french fries however, that will get my praise and
support. I think we should get a product like that in the works.
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