Well an interesting article in the news. Speculate!…..is it tech and modernistic behaviour/ attitude gone mad. Ethical, moral, good, bad or is it a wonder of wonderful’s.
Parents in Japan can now buy an acrylic model of their foetus using 3d printer.
Japan firm offers 3D model of foetus
Expectant parents who can't wait to show friends what their baby will look like can now buy a 3D model of foetus.
By AFP Published: November 27, 2012
This photo taken on November 26, 2012 shows Japan's 3D computer-aided design (CAD) venture Fasotec employee Tomohiro Kinoshita displaying a nine-month foetal face figure, made of acrylic resin, at the company's headquarters in Chiba, suburban
JAPAN: Expectant parents in Japan who can’t wait to show the world what their baby will look like can now buy a 3D model of the foetus to pass around their friends.
The nine-centimetre (3.6-inch) resin model of the white foetus, encased in a transparent block in the shape of the mother’s body, is fashioned by a 3D printer after an MRI scan.
“As it is only once in a lifetime that you are pregnant with that child, we received requests for these kind of models from pregnant women who… do not want to forget the feelings and experience of that time,” said Tomohiro Kinoshita of FASOTEC, the company offering the service.
The “Shape of an Angel”, which costs 100,000 yen ($1,200), comes with a miniature version that could be a nice adornment to a mobile phone, he added. Many young women in Japan have decorations attached to their cell phone strap.
The company said the ideal time for a scan is around eight or nine months into the pregnancy.
For those who would like a less pricey version, the company will start offering a 3D model of the face of the foetus at 50,000 yen in December.
It will use ultrasound images taken at a medical clinic in Tokyo that has forged a tie-up with the company.
FASOTEC, originally a supplier of devices including 3D printers, uses a layering technique to build up three-dimensional structures. The technique has been touted as a solution to localised manufacture on a small scale.
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probably start usimng it for abortions if people don't like what they see
Next up cloning! Does anyone have a problem with that? Perhaps we could have a whole civilization of clones to do our labor? Oh, wait...been there, done that. Well, this then must be a very "old" technology?
驚くべき (Amazing)
I like that actually. I see it on the same shelf as the Baby Booties. lol Imagine she does this. Placed in a gift box and presented it to the to be now Pappa lol. eh, what's This? I didn't get you anything..er ..o.O? I'm a Dad?!! Oh I see I did give you something.
i dont get the problem
i also dont see the nessesity
but who cares if thats of interest to people
enjoy
not too funny
actually, we humans in collective way , had gave them permission to take this creepy shit, too far........
having sex with virtual partner , I hope is not gonna be next for humanity. All that, while we sit in a lazy chair with "toilet~hole".................Idiocracy
Yuk. Does not do anything for me good or bad... I am moving to 5D soon and think this is just gross!
if you think the miracle of life and wanting to keep a memory of that stage of your children is gross then you wont be making it to 4 or 5 or any other D.
instead of seeing only the bad aspects of this technology why not focus on what it COULD be iused for. to see a model of the child in uterus, to see how the growth is going and to see it in 3d for those unable to visualise objects in 3d. nobody cried foul when people took printings of the ultrasounds, so why freak out over this.
i think some of you have been suspicous of everythign for far too long and now are having difficulty separating things which are benign with things that are possibly harmful.
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