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If you’re a product designer, a desktop 3D scanner would be worth its weight in gold. But that’s the problem–the things are friggin’ expensive.

Having an affordable way to scan something in 3D is inching closer to reality due to the efforts of one Qi Pan, a PhD candidate at the Engineering Department of Cambridge University. Pan has developed software, called PROforma, that enables a run-of-the-mill webcam to create a 3D model of what’s in front of it–as he rotates it by hand. Don’t believe it? Check it out:

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