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The Straight Story

(48,121 posts)
Sat Jan 18, 2014, 01:37 AM Jan 2014

It Is Now Possible To 3-D Print Your Unborn Fetus

So you dropped some cash and upgraded to a 4-D ultrasound, and now you’re thinking to yourself, “Well I’ve already had my unborn baby’s glamour shots captured in every dimension known to man. Now how else can I prepare for my child's arrival?”

For $600, a company named 3D Babies will turn your ultrasound into a life-sized fetal sculpture, delivered in a satin-lined wood box that would be impolite to call a coffin.

Let's break down a few of the selling points, as stated on the company Website:

“Imagine holding your baby before he or she is born.”

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3024940/design-crime/it-is-now-possible-to-3-d-print-your-unborn-fetus

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It Is Now Possible To 3-D Print Your Unborn Fetus (Original Post) The Straight Story Jan 2014 OP
It's PRECIOUS! Scootaloo Jan 2014 #1
Looks like a medical teaching model nadinbrzezinski Jan 2014 #2
Ick Lithos Jan 2014 #3
That is totally awesome MannyGoldstein Jan 2014 #4
Creepy CFLDem Jan 2014 #5
Creepy! Vashta Nerada Jan 2014 #6
This ranks about a 9 out of 10 on my WTF-o-meter. Initech Jan 2014 #7
3d Print your fetus? Isn't that sort of hard on the kid? Why not just have it the traditional way? Katashi_itto Jan 2014 #8
Sounds like a less painful ohheckyeah Jan 2014 #9
The gun-nutters can already create their 3D gunz. The smokers will soon madinmaryland Jan 2014 #10
One smoker would create one 3-d printed cigarette jmowreader Jan 2014 #12
ugh that face is repulsive..... BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2014 #11
Humans are a silly, silly species 1000words Jan 2014 #13
they also sell celebrity fetuses PeaceNikki Jan 2014 #14
 

Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)
8. 3d Print your fetus? Isn't that sort of hard on the kid? Why not just have it the traditional way?
Sat Jan 18, 2014, 02:33 AM
Jan 2014

Progress...meh.

jmowreader

(50,549 posts)
12. One smoker would create one 3-d printed cigarette
Sat Jan 18, 2014, 05:49 AM
Jan 2014

His obit would read, "Joe Jones, 17, died from inhaling the poisonous smoke from burning plastic while attempting to smoke a cigarette he printed on a 3-d printer."

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