Something I have been keeping my eye on these past couple years and been the rise of affordable home 3D printers. Most of you probably know by now that I have a bit of a problem with big business. Anything that helps us move away from a throw-away, consumer-driven culture and reliance on big corporations is huge thumbs up in my book. I recommend you all look into some of the 3D printers available out there right now if you have a couple thousand extra dollars to spend.
But the meat of this article is not for me to rant, but to instead espouse the cool things the Smithsonian is doing with 3D printers and how they are using 3D modeling to bring history into your living room. By doing high quality 3D scans and creating digital models from them, you are essentially able to use a 3D printer to reproduce anything. This can be dinosaur skulls, airplane models, tribal masks, or an infinite other number of possibilities. I am utterly speechless at how much potential this kind of technology has to offer public historians and laymen alike.
Source: Smithsonian X 3D
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