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Crave - 3D-printed objects emerge from pool of photosensitive liquid, Ep. 196

2015-03-19
hey guys my name is Steven B Sherman here's this happening this week on scene at scrape block the beautification robot applies makeup to human faces but as you can see it does a terrible job to students from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna Austria created the makeup bot to show the world that robots are not always the best solution for everyday tasks on this planet sometimes it takes a human touch the beautification robot was on display at the 2015 Biennale Internationale design in Saint Etienne France the robot has two arms one for holding the makeup brush that smears black streaks on your face enhancing human sexiness and another arm that holds a tube of lipstick and rotates on a wheel applying the perfect circle of lipstick to the user German filmmaker and volcano enthusiast Marc's egg lot was lucky enough to witness and capture a lightning storm generated by the Sakurajima volcano during an eruption earlier this month in Japan volcanic lightning otherwise known as a dirty thunderstorm is very rare but for some reason this particular volcano seems to produce a lot of it making it a great place to study the phenomenon this video is posted on Barcroft TVs YouTube channel so if you get a chance check it out now you can get your kicks with these LED embedded kicks from Japanese startup no new folks to do or is a programmable performance shoe containing 100 full color remotely controlled LEDs outfitted with advanced motion sensors in a wireless bluetooth module your dance moves will never be the same the shoes connect to an app via bluetooth so a user can jam the color of your shoes as you bust a move on the dance floor the shoes can also be set to respond a certain way to the wearer's move the LED shoes contain nine axis sensors embedded in each soul which pick up the wears movements and real time this data can then be used to wirelessly control various external devices such as musical instruments video game controllers and simple foot switches you can get your own pair of orph LED smart shoes for an early-bird pledge of $270 at IndieGoGo comm science fiction is catching up with reality as we try to wrap our heads around this terminator like 3d printer that slowly renders objects from a pool of liquid a startup called carbon 3d is showing off their new style of 3d printing called clip or continuous liquid interface production the clip technology uses photosensitive resin that reacts to UV light in oxygen producing objects that grow out of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle like ooze as the printer slowly races them upwards now it might take me all day to explain exactly how this works but according to the carbon 3d website at the heart of the clip process is a special window that is transparent sunlight and permeable to oxygen much like a contact lens by controlling the oxygen flux through the window flip creates a dead zone in the resin pool just tens of microns thick about two to three diameters of red blood cell where photo polymerization cannot occur as a series of cross-sectional images of a 3d model is played like a movie into the resin pool from underneath the physical object emerges continuously from just above the dead zone need more about the carbon 3d printer in the crave blog post alright guys that's the show thank you very much for watching as always you can find all these new stores to see that scrape vlog on crave dot cnet.com make sure you follow creme on twitter at crave and check out this week's crib giveaway this week's crave giveaway is the tilt gear charging backpack plus more mobile gear the spacious tilt Energy Plus pack doubles as a mobile charging station open it up and you'll find more prizes inside go to the blog and enter the win you
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