where have i been?!

why am i JUST becoming aware of the phenomena of 3D printing machines?!  these things are INCREDIBLE!  digital input from three dimensional data creates solid three dimensional objects through a layer by layer process.  i watched an episode of "My Design Life" last night and was formally introduced to the wonders of this technology.  i shy away from tech anything.  i received an iPad 2 for my birthday and it's still in the box simply because i'm scared of it.  (i will make friends with it- i just need a series of tutorials).  all the innovation in the world today is truly mind blowing.  growing up i kicked and screamed through science and math classes.  geometry was the only "math" subject that came naturally (perhaps because it is a "visual" logic?)  algebra + calculus = torture for me.  give me literature, art history and a thousand research papers to write and i am a happy girl.  still to this day math, science, technology, etc. are kinda not my forte.  BUT- if all those brainy concepts can produce beautiful design then sign me up.  my mind is boggled that a printing machine can produce objects like this...

enter the "One Shot Folding Chair" by Patrick Jouin.  this stunning stool EMERGES FROM A PRINTING MACHINE COMPLETE.  there is no assembly- at all.

 

the "Fall of the Damned Suspension Light" by Luc Merx is another SPECTACULAR example.  WHA???!!!  the magical printing machine created something that human hands could never do

the "Snotty Vases" by Marcel Wanders is a series of 3D printed vases based on scans of airborne "snot" molecules.  how clever.

i think i like technology now.  i NEED one of these machines.  but maybe i should get acquainted with that ipad first.