3D Printers Create Sound-Wave Rings And A Wedding Dress

An anonymous reader writers: A Japanese company is using a 3D printer to generate unique rings shaped like the sound wave of each customer's voice. They generate the digital designs from three-second recordings that customers upload to their web site, and can print out the $300 rings in different colors and sizes, using either silver, gold, or 14K rose paint. 3Ders.org points out that another jeweler can now actually print a ring shaped like a customer's face, while a fashion designer in Sri Lanka teamed up with a 3D printing company for an even romantic product: a wedding dress. "The ultimate result of this was a super excited bride that not only had an especially memorable day but walked down the aisle with the only dress of its kind in the country."

Hmm

[Anonymous Coward]

Is this a story or just spam?

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[Deadolus]

I agree this is hardly any news, the concept of using "sound waves" for jewelery is used by multiple other vendors, there are even people selling basically the slashverdised product on etsy: https://www.etsy.com/de/search... [etsy.com] No news here...

Just as I suspected

[110010001000]

3D printers can print junk that no one needs. News at 11.

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[110010001000]

My beard is ironic.

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[Iamthecheese]

Maybe I'm overly sentimental but I love the idea of wedding rings that encode "I love you" in your spouse's voice.

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[LaurenCates]

I don't consider that overly sentimental. I think whatever symbol you feel connects you to the person you love is the thing that you should be wearing.

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[martinfb]

(Her panties!)

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[110010001000]

You just watch too much Oprah.

Impressive - 10 cents worth of plastic into $300!

[BenJeremy]

Print a plastic ring (They use the Ultimaker 3D printer) and coat it. ... (well, find dupes with disposable income)
PROFIT!

Re:Impressive - 10 cents worth of plastic into $30

[Deadolus]

Actually the rings are probably casted in silver and are not only coated by the metal. Usually the process for this kind of jewelery is like this: 3D Model --> casting wax --> make negative of wax model in plaster --> cast precious metal in to negative model --> finish product (polish/highlight/...) So the material worth of the jewelery can easily be quite high if you cast e.g. rose silver... The process is pretty well described at i.materialise: https://i.materialise.com/3d-p... [materialise.com]

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[RockDoctor]

I was just trying to figure out if the temperature ranges for 3d-printer feedstock were close enough to the melting points of the conventional (i.e. 3-4 thousand year old) "lost wax" process, to just go straight from 3d-printing into the established pipeline. I would guess so.

make negative of wax model in plaster

No, not "plaster" in the conventional sense, as "plaster of Paris" (calcium sulphate hemi-hydrate, hydrated to gypsum, calcium sulphate di-hydrate). The gypsum would decompose (to the hemi-hydrate

Meh

[mark_reh]

How about a pencil cup, toothpick holder, or a keyfob made from a CT scan?

http://www.thingiverse.com/thi... [thingiverse.com]
https://www.youmagine.com/desi... [youmagine.com]
http://cdn.instructables.com/F... [instructables.com]

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[blindseer]

I'd rather have a record made from X-ray film.

http://www.npr.org/2016/01/09/... [npr.org]

romantic difficult uniqueness vs cheap easy copy

[sittingnut]

some things are valued because of their difficult to make uniqueness, usually expensive. and such unique things are usually connected with personal relationships esp romantic ones. esp weddings. hence hand embroidered personally designed wedding dresses etc, idea is (ideally)one couple one person forever and ever.
so why connect an easy to make easy to copy things with such events? that is cheap (i am not meaning just money).

while 1st ever 3d printed wedding dress is unique, next ones aren't .
hand crafted ring shaped like a face/sound waves is unique , easily mass produced 3d printed ones aren't.

Crochet

[Zeroko]

Crochet seems pretty close to manually 3-D printing fabric, although the present lack of true crochet machines is surprising to me (although only mildly so, given my experience with it).

3D printed dress

[manu0601]

TFA does not say much about how a dress can be 3D printed, and how much manual work is required to assemble it.

I wonder if people got like this with 2D printers

[Dr. Spork]

Do you think that our parents were like: "Ooooh, what I just printed is sort of like a newspaper, but it's the only one like this in the whole world!" Now I wonder what is the average lifespan of a printed page, from printer to bin. My guess is that 3D printed crap will converge to that same average lifespan, and we will treat it with the same (lack of) reverence.

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[50000BTU_barbecue]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

I'm disappointed.

[slashcross]

I was hoping the voice print was something like Edison's record cylinders, preferably in metal. You could wear an actual playable recording instead of an oddly shaped blob.

How about something usefull

[vyvepe]

How about something useful like custom robot or drone parts. Or keyboard cases: dactyl keyboard [github.com], jeffgran's keyboard [geekhack.org], or even a keyboard with printed keycaps [geekhack.org]

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nice romantic wedding ring, but safe & inexpen

[lcall]

My wife got me one of these rings (no affiliation) when my old one stopped fitting right:
evernote site:onemodel.org
The price was sensible, the ideas were romantic, and it's good for the longevity of one's finger.

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[lcall]

Sorry, I goofed and didn't see what was in my paste buffer. The url for the ring is is really:

http://wefido.com/ [wefido.com]

Newsworthy

[bradgoodman]

It's newsworthy because 3D-printing. If only they accepted bitcoin, that'd qualify them for another feature article.