Hasta La Ideas

As ID’ers we’re privy to technologies that seem mundane to us through familiarity, but it’s interesting to see how people that have never heard of RP react when it’s demonstrated for them. That goes for people as highly educated as the theoretical physicist David Kaplan, featured in this NatGeo video, who travels to Z Corporation to see if they can scan and 3D-print a working model of his crescent wrench.

It’s kind of cool to watch Kaplan pull the finished part out of the powder. I know most of us have already seen things similar to this, but you get the sense Kaplan’s head would explode if he looked inside your average industrial design department.

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