{"id":162,"date":"2009-01-06T14:35:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T14:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/162-cast-your-baby-in-bronze.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T16:50:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:50:17","slug":"cast-your-baby-in-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/cast-your-baby-in-bronze","title":{"rendered":"Cast your baby in bronze?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever had the urge to cast your unborn children in bronze, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1104083\/Your-unborn-baby-cast-bronze---new-foetal-attraction.html%20\">you can now<\/a>. If you go to the London Ultrasound Centre you can get an echo of your baby made and they will then use this to 3D print a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1104083\/Your-unborn-baby-cast-bronze---new-foetal-attraction.html\">cast and then use this to make a bronze cast of your as yet to be born child<\/a>.&nbsp; We&#8217;re looking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/hansolocarbonite1.jpg\" class=\"serendipity_image_link\"><!-- s9ymdb:356 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"82\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/hansolocarbonite1-150x150.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none ; float: right; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\"><\/a>into processes such as these and things of a similar nature but somehow I&#8217;m kind of happy that we didn&#8217;t come up with this one. <\/p>\n<p>Although I did meet Scott Barett of <a href=\"http:\/\/blackpowdermedia.com\/\">Black Powder Media<\/a> at SIGGRAPH and seem to remember that he had a life sized version of himself in Carbonite(a la Han Solo from Star Wars(if this does not ring a bell at the moment, uum it will take a while for me to explain)) which he had 3D printed. Perhaps we should make a Creator for this? How big is the market for people who would like life sized Carbonite models of themselves? <\/p>\n<p>Photo credit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/johnseb\/\">JohnSeb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever had the urge to cast your unborn children in bronze, you can now. 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