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3D printing - What's the big buzz these days?

Did you know? Nike, the footwear giant, used 3D printing to prototype and manufacture the 2012 Vapor Laser Talon football shoe for players of American football. Nowadays, companies are printing eyewear with customer’s on-demand custom fit and styling. In 2014, the Swedish supercar manufacturer, Koenigsegg, announced the One:1 which utilized many components that were 3D printed like side-mirror internals, air ducts, titanium exhaust components, and complete turbocharger assemblies. Olaf Diegel, a Swedish Professor Develops World’s First 3D-Printed All-Aluminium Electric Guitar and names it ‘Heavy Metal’. A titanium pelvis was successfully implanted into a British patient, a titanium lower jaw transplanted to a Belgian patient and a plastic tracheal splint into an American infant all of which were 3D printed. Sounds amazing? Once you know the wide array of applic...