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February 2014

While I was on Reddit I came across a title that caught my attention. The title of the article was “3D printing will explode in 2014, thanks to the expiration of key patents,” written by Christopher Mims. Many people think that 3D printing is going to revolutionize how we build things in the future and I feel the same way. Other people take it further and call it the next industrial revolution. “In February 2014, key patents that currently prevent competition in the market for the most advanced and functional 3D printers will expire. These patents cover a technology known as “laser sintering,” the lowest-cost 3D printing technology. Because of its high resolution in all three dimensions, laser sintering can produce goods that can be sold as finished products.”  The printers that have this technology cost a lot of money, but when the patent expires different companies will be able to use this in their machines. This should drop the cost of this advanced printers. Once the cost drops more people are going to be able to afford them. With more advanced printers on the market people are going to push them to the limit and build new things. So the idea is that cost of many products should drop due the the abundance of advanced 3D printers.

Presentation

Books

In the book No Plastic Sleeves by Larry Volk, and Danielle Currier they talk about how there are many different way of presenting your work. I never knew there were so many different ways. I only knew of the post and screw binders. I learn that there are many types, like glued back-to-back binding, Japanese or stab binding, spiral binding and more. Some of these don’t seem as effective as the post and screw binder. 

For my presentation book I got a post in screw Pina Zangro. The reason I do not think the others are as good is because they cant be changed easily. For example if you got a glued back-to-back binding book it may look nice but when the time comes to change the book you will have to make a new one. Same with the Japanese or stab binding which is held together by string. Depending on what you want out of your binder and how much your looking to spend will determine what you get. 

When you get your presentation book you can’t forget about the layout of the pages. This is just as critical as the binder and the artwork you are putting into it. Even here you need to utilize a grid structure. You have to design each page as if you were on the computer. Larry Volk, and Danielle Currier talk about the use of white space. They say it is very important and if used effectively it will make your work stand out. This might be even harder then creating the work. Making you work stand out and really pop is a new challenge that I need to learn.

Pitch

In today’s world the state is putting up more and more red light camera’s. I am not talking about intersections that have camera over them. I am talking about the ones that have the camera that flash. They have signs warning people that they have to come to a complete stop before the white line. If they cross the line while the light is changing from yellow to red you get a ticket. The tickets come in the mail with a picture of car and license plate.The tickets are like $90. They even have a website you can go to and watch a video of yourself not coming to a complete stop. There should be a way to avoid getting these tickets. Well my idea is to have an app that tells you where all the red light camera’s are. You type in where you are then it comes up on a map with red dots showing where the camera’s are. You can click on the red dot and it will show the directions of the camera’s. It will also let you know what the cost of the fine is. 

By knowing where the camera’s are will prevent you from a ticket. It will also keep people safe. Camera’s are usually put where there is a bad intersection. So if you know you could get a ticket your more likely to drive safer at that point. This will help everyone  out. You would also pay a small fee for the app. 

Wooden Skyscrapers

In todays world “going green” is a really big deal. A lot of companies are going green and try to make green products. But there is a misconception about building wooden structures. When we think about building things out of wood some of the concerns are that the structure is very flammable and not as strong as steel and concrete. The other concern is deforestation and green house gases. Michael Green did  a TED talk called “Why we should build wooden skyscrapers." He has come up with a way to make large pieces of wood by glueing smaller pieces together. That may sound like plywood to you but its different. These panels are 8 feet wide and 64 feet long. By making a the panels like this the building are as strong as steel and concrete skyscrapers. When people hear his idea, certain things come to mind. One big one is wood if its a wooden building it can catch fire very easily. He explains it like this, if you hold up a log and take a match to it, it wont burn. But if you have tiny pieces of wood it burns and eventually you can put the big log on. And when the big log catches fire it takes a long time for it to burn. 

If a wooden skyscraper where built it would hold a lot of carbon. A 20 story wooden building would make 3150 tones of carbon. But it store over 4,360 tones of carbon. 1000 tones carbon is like 900 cars on the road. So that would be like taking 900 cars of the road. Michael Green is planing on building a 30 story skyscraper in Canada.

Cybernetics

3-D printing has taken printing to the next level with cybernetics. The Philadelphia Inquirer recently reported that “Princeton research creates a bionic ear.” “The scientist send bovine cells mixed in a liquid gel through the printer, followed by tiny particles of sliver.”  Once the ear is printed they put it in a petri dish and let it cultivate for 10 weeks. By then the ear changes its color to a flesh color. The is able to retrieve radio signals and turn it into sound. The end product is not to replace the human ear just yet. It is a stepping stone in the right direction. It shows the capabilities and limitations the 3-D printer can do. They were able to push the 3-D to a new level. Eventually in the future maybe will see organs and ears being rebuilt by 3-D printers. I think that they can push this idea and many more like this a lot further.