TOYS FROM YOUR PRINTER
If two entrepreneurs get their wish, the next stop for 3-D printing may be the playroom.
Artur Tchoukanov and Joris Peels think
that their Origo 3-D printer will appeal both to kids, natural
tinkerers that they are, and to parents weary of mass-produced toys that
often serve as movie tie-ins. With Origo, children use existing
software to fashion simple designs out of small graphical blocks, then
"print" what they've imagined, out of plastic (eventually, recyclable
bioplastic). A promotional video shows a boy who moves from daydreaming
to a sketch to a model airplane. The Origo duo hope to sell the device
for under $800.
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