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Angela Natividad
Angela Natividad is a freelance copywriter, journalist and strategist based in Paris. She co-founded AdVerveBlog.com, a blog and podcast about ads and design, and writes MarketingProfs' “Get to the Point!: Social Media” newsletters. She likes people and animals, but not as much as books.
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James Martin
James Martin is the community manager of music & TV tradeshows midem & MIPTV/MIPCOM. He edits their respective industry news & trends blogs (blog.midem.com & mipblog.com) and also covers video games and technology for French cultural weekly A Nous Paris
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Stuart Dredge
Stuart Dredge is a freelance journalist based in the UK. He writes about digital music for Music Ally, and about apps and mobile for The Guardian, The Sunday Times and The Appside, as well as his own Apps Playground site.
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3D-Printed Shoes + Swimsuits for Futuristic Fashionistas.

Design studio Continuum, which specialises in “user-designed fashion”, is now selling shoes made with a 3D printer. Get either a pair of pumps or some sandals from the Strvct line of footwear; colours, styles and heel lengths are totally customisable.

Shoes include a patent leather inset with a textured rubber-coated bottom, which makes for somewhat wearable conversation pieces. (They don’t look super comfortable, though.) At $900 a pair though, you better be committed.

Continuum also sells 3D-printed bikinis under its N12 line, which seem like a less painful experiment in print-out fashion:

Continuum does its printing through Shapeways, where you can find still more 3D-printed paraphernalia with which to ornament yourself. Turnaround time is between two and four weeks. If all this, price, time or style-wise, is still too chic for you, you can always just wait until the Makerbot’s launched a fashion printer.

Your unborn foetus. Printed. In 3D The Japanese. You gotta hand it to them. Those fuzzy, black and white first glimpses of one’s offspring in mummy’s tummy just don’t cut it anymore. Hell, yours truly didn’t even find a clinic with 3D imaging for either of my mini me’s. As Wired UK reported first, a Japanese company called Fasotec is making both of those prenatal pic techs a thing of the past by offering 3D printouts of your unborn baby. They just take the image of your MRI scan, run it through a 3D printer, and Bob’s your uncle. For around a grand (€/$), you get your baby in a 90 x 60 x 40mm resin block. To do with what you will. I imagine this would do a great job of scaring future grandparents, for example.  But perhaps the greatest spinoff is that most Japanese of useless trinkets: yes, you can also get your unborn child as a mobile phone charm. To truly freak out everyone you come across. Several steps beyond excessively-photo-happy parents, eh?

Your unborn foetus. Printed. In 3D

The Japanese. You gotta hand it to them. Those fuzzy, black and white first glimpses of one’s offspring in mummy’s tummy just don’t cut it anymore. Hell, yours truly didn’t even find a clinic with 3D imaging for either of my mini me’s.

As Wired UK reported first, a Japanese company called Fasotec is making both of those prenatal pic techs a thing of the past by offering 3D printouts of your unborn baby. They just take the image of your MRI scan, run it through a 3D printer, and Bob’s your uncle. For around a grand (€/$), you get your baby in a 90 x 60 x 40mm resin block. To do with what you will. I imagine this would do a great job of scaring future grandparents, for example. 

But perhaps the greatest spinoff is that most Japanese of useless trinkets: yes, you can also get your unborn child as a mobile phone charm. To truly freak out everyone you come across.

Several steps beyond excessively-photo-happy parents, eh?