Immortalize your unborn child with a bizarre 3D replica
A Japanese company creates 3D prints of your unborn fetus
For expectant parents prenatal ultrasound scans are one of the most anticipated stages of a pregnancy and for many, the pixelated images are enough to tie them over until they can hold their child in their arms — for the rest there’s Fasotec’s new “Shape of an Angel” service. Japanese company Fasotec, which normally creates 3D models for healthcare education and industry, is now offering 3D printed replicas of unborn fetuses based on scans of the pregnant mother.
Fasotec’s unique service uses CT or MRI scans to obtain 3D data of the mother and fetus, which is then processed and printed in 3D. The 3D printer sprays two resins simultaneously, a transparent resin for the mother’s body and a white resin for the fetus, creating an accurate, if somewhat kitschy, physical replica of the fetus suspended within its mother’s womb.
Printing out a 40x60x90mm simulacrum of your bundle of joy will set you back 100,000 yen, or about $1250, plus the costs of the CT or MRI imaging required to gather the 3D data. The standard service includes a decorative pink-and-white box but if you’re interested in a custom size or accessories such as pendants, fetus keychains or cellphone dongles that’ll be extra.
The process, which Fasotec is calling “Bio-Texture”, is the latest in a line of recent innovations to make use of 3D printing, an emerging technology enjoying a boom in popularity and accessibility thanks to affordable printers such as the MakerBot and model cataloging sites such as THINGIVERSE and, the ever controversial, Pirates Bay’s “Physibles” section.
Aside from a 3D printed fetus suspended upside down in a 3D printed belly seeming a little non-traditional, it’s sure to please some parents-to-be, so why not? It may not be as heartwarming as 3D printed arms helping a little girl get her hug-on, but it sure beats your neighbour 3D printing functional gun parts in their basement.
Would you ever consider having a 3D replica made of your unborn child?
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Good Lord – what is next?
Do we need a slow motion video so that we can see every drop of sperm that is ejaculated into the woman, or the momemnt of cell division when the sperm penetrates the ovum, and life begins?
Are we humans so socially inepet that we cannot use our imaginations, and just appreciate the glory of a newborn at face value, WHEN IT ARRRIVES. Do we have any patience left?
Except for checking for genetic markers in both the man and the woman before becoming pregnant, or getting married (what would two people who both had Huntingdon’s do if they knew their child would inherit that trait – at least they’d have an informed decision to make).
Aside from things like that, and a complete battery of STD testing, which ought to be requird by law, and have 3 sets done – #1, #2 (1 mo. later), and # 3 ( 6 mo. later). Then, and only then, would you get your marriage license, and that only after you had completed a mandatory premarital counselling course.
People really make me sick!
Bifurcated tongues;
Castings of the female body – so that some woman 80 yrs of age can some day look back and say, see, look how I looked – (personally, I think that would depress some people)- (at least a nude portrait painted by a real artist gives complete context, whereas the mould features on only one aspect of a woman’s body);
Body piercing through both gender’s genitalia and women’s breasts and nipples;
Having to know the gender of your child instead of waiting for whatever comes and loving that human being;
Instant gratification on all facets of human life;
People who join ‘vampire clubs’ and drink human blood.
We really are a failing civilization!
Hey @DazedandAmazed – do you breathe in and out or just in?
you are playing with the babies life, i am offended by this, leave that little life alone. IT’S ALL ABOUT MONEY ISN’T IT?
The baby is is GOd’s buisness not yours.
It is not the peoples fault, it is the society we live in. Change the big factor like the economic system (capitalism) and see what happens.
Synchromesh foam lucite xb72 chronospheric alkaloids insertion 030 with a phase 4 modified botrilliceen conduit…what? Do they come with a happy meal?
Next they should image map the death phase of a person because there’s nothing more challenging to capture than a decaying corpse. Just about anything sells these days!
In short, I find it repulsive.
They pretty much all look the same until the third trimester so they could pretty much just hand out a generic fetus for whatever week you wanted and that would be very close. The u/s image data is not really going to be high enough resolution to show any differences at even 18 weeks unless there is something seriously wrong.
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I like the MRI 3d scan images and videos of baby.1st time,I have seen such type of bizarre stuff