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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ELF began as a design project last October and the quadcopter is now complete. You can pick up a kit now for $65 on Indiegogo or simply print out the parts yourself for free. DIYers will also have to buy the motors and electronics but with the ubiquity of DIY manufacturing tools that’s far easier than it sounds these days.

The drone is quite small but it can take and transmit video. The team hopes that users will stream the 720p video camera output to a VR device like Google Cardboard and the whole package snaps together without screws or glue.

The company plans to ship in July and it looks like they’ve completely beat their goal funding goal.

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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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You may be familiar with other 3D printing/Raspberry Pi projects that we have covered such as that of the Gameboy. Projects like this are extremely informative for those wishing to expand their knowledge of design and electronics.

If you thought the 3D printed Gameboy was cool, then this next project may really impress you. A team of five individuals based in London, England, have collaborated to create what they call the Pi-Top.  The Pi-Top is the first 3D printed laptop computer. What they intend to do is provide users with a kit packed full of all the materials needed to construct the device, as well as very detailed instructions on how to create this laptop computer from start to finish. All the user has to do is put it together, and if they choose, 3D print the outer shell. The entire process is intended to be an incredible learning experience, teaching those who are interested, skills which will forever be with them, allowing for the creation of electronics via the Raspberry Pi system.

The team has already printed their first prototype for the Pi-Top project, using a Rostock Max V2 Kit with an E3D metal hotend. The shell of the laptop was printed out of PLA filament over a 160 hour span, with 0.2mm layers and 30% infill. The shell is printed in three separate pieces, two of them at the same time, and the larger piece by itself. The Pi-Top will feature a 6-8 hour battery life, WiFi, a true laptop (not Bluetooth) keyboard, and a 13.3″ TFT LCD panel with an LED backlight for a screen. The Resolution of the screen is 1366×768 and it has a 40 pin LVDS interface. It will run on the Rasbian Operating System, and have a sliding clear panel to allow for easy access to the Raspberry Pi board, without the need for unscrewing.

The plan is to make these kits available via the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, and raise enough money to allow the group to expand on their idea. If funded, the actual kits will come with an already fabricated shell via injection molding, with the option for users to 3D print their own.

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