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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.
Tweet her @luckthelady.
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
Tweet him at @jamesmart_in
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.
Tweet him @stuartdredge
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?