With 125 years of innovation, Philips is now marking another exciting journey with personalized 3D printed shaver. They are piloting a limited-edition personalized 3D printed shaver which enables you to design your own shaver – its shape, dimensions, accessories and colors. You can even have a personal message printed on it.

This exclusive pilot is limited to only 125 units – all of which will be individually personalized by people like you, using the latest 3D printing technology.

Skin tones change with the seasons, with ladies going from deep sun kissed summer glows to lightly tanned beige in a matter of months. This means that finding the right foundation shade is a dynamic and frustrating task. Adorn is putting an end to foundation frustrations, with its next generation 3D printing technology that pinpoints the perfect shade, guaranteed.

Achieve a flawless face in few simple steps: scan, print and apply.

Using advanced scanning, blending and printing technology, Adorn creates bespoke foundation shades at the touch of a button. In just seconds, an intelligent in-built skin tone sensor scans complexion characteristics with incredible accuracy. Using this data, the internal mixing mechanism blends a unique shade. The blend is then printed straight onto the fingertips for easy application. With millions of color combinations, finding a superlative shade has never been easier.

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Each sculptural heel was 3D printed using SelectiveLaser Sintering in a hard Nylon and all-new soft Rubber material, making a "fully functioning" shoe. Only up to 50 pairs of each will be sold. Read the full article…

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For those unfamiliar, Zazzy.me was founded in 2013 by Gert Jan Spriensma, one of Distimo’s (acquired by App Annie) first employees whose background is in industrial engineering, along with Martijn van der Veen, a UCL grad who studied A.I., computer vision, and graphics.

The company has seen over 60,000 users design their own necklaces, bracelets and rings to date. And in total, its customers have created over 200,000 designs since the platform debuted. On the site, customers use simple tools to select their jewelry and materials (e.g. gold-plated shiny steel, stainless steel, matte black steel, nylon, etc.), then create their designs using lettering and icons.

Zazzy doesn’t actually do its own printing in-house, however, but works with multiple printeries around the world, including exOne and Shapeways, for example. Ship times vary, but most customers receive their products in two to three weeks, Spriensma says.

The marketplace is actually launching at the end of the month, he also notes, but is available for preview here.

Zazzy is currently backed by half a million in angel funding from a number of investors, including angels who founded companies like eBuddy, Freedom of Creation (acquired by 3D Systems), Hyves and Vakantieveilingen. Spriensma says Zazzy is now working to pursue some opportunities in the U.S. and the team is planing to move in the next six months.

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The business, which can turn out about 1,500 products per day, still prints the majority of its output in plastic — the material accounts for about half of its output, according to Weijmarshausen — but has diversified to add multiple higher end materials, including ceramic, stainless steel, brass, bronze and most recently gold.

How does 3D printing in gold work? Weijmarshausen explained that for higher end materials the process becomes a mix of old and new manufacturing techniques.

“We use the term 3D printing and actually it’s a misnomer, right, because it’s just the term that we now use for all the technologies that are also called additive manufacturing. And with gold it’s a mix of the new and the old — where we print in wax actually,” he said.

The memes are coming into real life

“Then the wax model is added to this tree of wax models and you encase that in gypsum. You burn out the wax and then you cast the gold — or the silver — into that empty space. You take away the gypsum after it’s cooled down, and you polish the model.”

“I think 3D printing will displace some part of manufacturing but a large part of mass manufacturing will always be around,” he added. “The insight that we got at Shapeways is that where do you want to use 3D printing, for what kind of things — it’s for things that you’re really passionate about.”

He also talked about how Shapeways’ 3D printing services business will mesh with a future of mass adoption of home 3D printers.

Home 3D printers are tools, said Weijmarshausen, whereas Shapeways’ business stands out by being an end-to-end service that removes the effort and expertise required by DIY.

“There will be printers at home, and there will be services and I think the proposition will be completely different. The printer at home is a tool — and if you’re good at using a tool you can make amazing things. But currently there is also limitations and if you want to keep up to date you need to buy a new printer every year or so,” he said.

“We have a totally different proposition — not only that we can use high end machines, and different materials already, and we will keep investing in having the best of the best, but we also offer an end to end service. It’s the same with paper; to me if you go to ShutterFly you can get a photo album. You have a printer at home that can print photos but making the photo album would take a lot of time and handiwork.”

Offering higher end materials mean Shapeways is also able to support niche manufacturing use-cases — including having a customer who is building a DIY nuclear fusion reactor, using ceramic parts printed by Shapeways.

“We were really surprised that a guy in Brooklyn was working on a fusion reactor – and he reached out to us and said without Shapeways, without the ceramic parts that you guys print for me this would never be possible for me to do,” added Weijmarshausen.

Another unexpected development being powered by 3D printing is that people are using Shapeways to make 3D versions of Internet memes, such as Sad Keanu, according to Weijmarshausen.

“They used to be only in pictures on the web but now what is happening is that people are modeling those memes are we see the next big thing like Success Kid or Mobius Bacon Strip. The memes are coming into real life,” he said.

He also touched on the need for 3D modeling skills to become more mainstream to help shape and drive a future of mass adoption of micro manufacturing.

On the education point he was hopeful, noting that there has been an “explosion” of people able to use 3D modeling software since Shapeways was founded, and expressing specific excitement about the current generation of kids who are effectively acquiring 3D modeling skills by stealth by playing block-building game Minecraft.

“One of the things that surprised me when I went through this experience at Shapeways over the last seven years is the explosion of people who can use 3D software,” he said. “Plenty of people are learning at schools, even high schools here in the United States. Lots of people are downloading [3D modeling software like] SketchUp and they’re learning.”

“I believe if you learn something young enough it becomes natural to you. I was at a science festival in Washington a few weeks ago, and I asked a crowd which was filled with kids between 10 and 18 years old, and I asked so who’s on Minecraft? And the whole audience put their hands in the air. And I said, what if you can hold your Minecraft design in your hands? And they all wanted that. It was fun to see the reactions.

“As a result you could argue that Minecraft now is a 3D software modeling tool — which it was never intended to be.”

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The little printer lets users choose any color on the web, or in the real world, and using simple already-existing software, print that color into a blush, eye shadow, lip gloss or any other type of makeup.

See, most makeup comes from the same basic substrates, from high-end labels like Chanel all the way down to the cheap stuff available at drug stores. Founder Grace Choi sources the same substrate for the Mink so that users can turn any image into any kind of makeup.

The idea here is that consumers are increasingly focused on instant gratification and DIY solutions. Choi also noticed that makeup consumers aren’t always loyal to certain brands, but rather focused on convenience.

Moreover, drug stores offer an incredibly limited selection of colors and options. Because makeup isn’t the main driver of sales in a Walgreens, they get more universally loved colors like pinks and reds, and exclude consumers who want to be bold. More niche retailers like Sephora have a wide selection of colors, but at a much higher price.

With Mink, users can satisfy the desire for instant gratification while still having access to any color in the world at an affordable price.

Simply choose a color on a website, Pinterest board, or snap one with your phone in the real world, and use any color picker to locate the hex code of the color. Once you have the code, you can put it into any other program like Photoshop or Paint and simply press print.

The company is targeting the younger, 13-21 demographic who are less ingrained in their habits with certain brands and retailers.

The Mink costs less than $200, with plans to launch later in the year.

Question: A lot of hardware companies have failed at manufacturing. How do you plan to succeed?

Answer: I have failed a lot of times before. This isn’t my first rodeo. I’m a serial inventor and have been through the manufacturing ring before. I know all the pitfalls. We might fail at some things, but we just need to make sure we don’t fail where it counts.

I plan on going to the big guys in printing like Epson to cut a deal, and that should make the process much easier.

Q: You talked about how the convenience of mass retailers limits the selection. Is the Mink makeup going to be even less expensive than mass?

A: Well, you don’t have to spend any money or resources on actually getting the makeup, and the price per unit is going to be around the same as mass retailers, but with the most color options of any brand in the world.

Q: If I understand correctly, you’re planning to sell this to 13 to 21 year old girls, but I might suggest selling it to influencers who will create more of an ecosystem or community around it.

A: I absolutely plan on spending time talking to beauty bloggers and influencers, and getting them excited about the product. Once that happens, marketing shouldn’t be difficult. The web itself has so many networks built in already.

Q: Can this printer print any kind of makeup?

A: The inkjet handles the pigment, and the same raw material substrates can create any type of makeup, from powders to cream to lipstick. Implementing this ability on the Mink is not hard to do, it’s actually more of a business decision.

What we’re doing is taking out the bull shit. Big makeup companies take the pigment and the substrates and mix them together and then jack the price. We do the same thing and let you get the makeup right in your own house.

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