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Visually impaired parents don’t generally have the privilege of seeing what their sonogram tech sees during the always-moving ritual of the prenatal ultrasound. Now, as one couple discovered, that’s no longer true. Using a combination of a very high-resolution GE Voluson E8 ultrasound machine and 3D printing, Dr. Heron Werner was able to help visually impaired couple Ana Paula Silveira and her husband, Alvaro Zermiani, “see” their unborn child in 3D printed form. Read more on GE’s blog<\/a>, and take a minute to enjoy the joys of 3D printing \u2014\u00a0and, you know, parenthood.<\/p>\n Courtesy GE Healthcare<\/p><\/div>\n Just when we thought we couldn’t be impressed anymore with applications of 3D printing, it goes and saves a guy from amputation. According to ABC News Australia<\/a>, it went something like this:<\/p>\n “Doctors came up to me and said there are two options \u2014 you can get amputated above the knee or we can try this experimental stuff that may or may not work,” Mr Lichter said.<\/p>\n “I was like, ‘bang, let’s do it’.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And so, doctors inserted a 3D printed tibia that grows into bone material. An implant that forms a framework that eventually replaces with an actual organ is a breakthrough for any number of reasons, not the least of which is that you don’t reject your own bones.<\/p>\n Parametric design<\/a> is at the root of a lot of our favorite 3D printed things. Now, it’s joined forces with our hands-down favorite 3D printing-enabled things, the incredible cakes of Dinara Kasko<\/a>. Head to Colossal<\/a> for a mouth-watering gallery of these algorithmically generated, Kasko-concocted masterpieces. We’ll be over here booking a flight to Ukraine to try them out first-hand.<\/p>\n![\"medical](\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/GIF_3d_printing_PULSE.gif\" "\\"medical")
A NEW LEG?! Yes. Yes indeed.<\/h3>\n
The Cake Algorithm<\/h3>\n
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