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These Awesome Shoes Were Printed Using The World’s First Color 3D-Printer

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That Israeli site sure puts an Israeli focus on the various exciting Israeli innovations and Israeli business events that come out of Israel. I'm not so sure the shoes are really that awesome, since they're just a prototype. Basically a mainly visual model of a shoe.

I was put off by the fact that the title is “No Camels”. Seems vaguely offensive ...

Not the first color printer. I'm not sure how long color sandstone printing has been available commercially, but it's at least since 2012 (see item #7 here):

http://3dprinting.com/materials/10-game-changing-3d-printing...

and it's currently offered by Shapeways commercially.

This may be the first color printer in a particular material,

Is there any difference between a 3d printer for prototyping and one for making things you can use? Is it just aiming for different markets?

That bicycle helmet is very likely not safe - solid materials - not Styrofoam or anything like that to take the impact.

It depends on what you mean by "use".

Output of the Objet printers is generally fragile, expensive, not safe for food and degrades over time. But it's incredibly detailed and can handle geometry that requires support material very well. This makes them great for prototyping a part that will be injection molded.

A ceramic printer in contrast will give you a rugged, inexpensive, food safe, durable item. But it can't handle delicate geometry or geometry with overhangs very well. This makes it great for producing consumer products designed for manufacturing on a ceramic printer.

FDM printers can sometimes fall in between. They are expensive, but if your part is bulky enough and you're only making a few of them (for example, an enclosure for part of an MRI machine), you can produce them on the printer for end use (after some hand finishing).

The ZCorp printers, which use a gypsum powder, binding agent and inkjet-like color have been around for a while: http://www.zcorp.com/en/Products/3D-Printers/ZPrinter-850/sp...

Alternatively, for less than a grand, well over a year ago...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkkbjpHVNZQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g0fiWx8RyM

These awesome MODELS OF shoes were printed using ...

...and not one picture of someone actually WEARING the shoes.

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