3D Printing on Futurama

3D Printing & Imaging

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Tuesday’s Futurama episode was tangentially related to 3D printing: Bender, thwarted in his attempt to buy an authentic folk singer’s guitar, snaps a picture of the instrument, converts it to a wireframe, and sends it to a “Make-o-Matic” 3D printer (that looks suspiciously like the Cupcake Replicator).

Here’s the clip (contains mature content):

[Thanks Patrick!]

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