The most impressive things ever made with a 3D printer

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Everyone and their nextdoor neighbor knows that the world is changing exponentially faster with each new day. But one of the most fascinating revolutions happening in labs around the world is the rise of 3D printing. From things you can eat to replacements for feet, and everything in between, click through to see some of the most impressive things 3D printers have ever made.

A heart

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Israeli scientists from Tel Aviv University have reportedly created the world's first 3D-printed, vascularized engineered heart.

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That means this tiny heart actually has blood vessels!

Unborn baby

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An Estonian 3D tech company decided to create the ultimate pregnancy souvenir, giving parents the opportunity to touch their baby before it is even born.

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After taking careful images, they print out 3D fetus models so detailed that you can count all their fingers and start to see whose nose the baby has!

Yourself

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At the Twinkind 3D printing studio in Berlin, you can make your own mini-me.

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You first take a 360-degree photographic scan of a person, then render it into a 3D digital model (and retouch the model to meet the requirements for printing). The printing machine then uses this digital model to produce a high-resolution solid figure.

A spine axis

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An artificial 3D-printed axis, the first to ever be successfully implanted into the spine of a bone cancer patient, is seen implanted in a model at Peking University Third Hospital in Beijing.

Prosthetic hand

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A war-wounded man from Yemen uses his 3D-printed prosthetic limb to work a mobile phone.

Prosthetic forearm

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Taiwanese engineer Chang Hsien-Liang lost his forearm in an accident, and was deeply unsatisfied with his prosthetic options. So he designed and built his own prosthetic forearm using 3D printing technology!

A toucan beak

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Grecia the toucan lost most of his upper beak in an attack, but he's now able to eat with his 3D-printed beak at Zoo Ave animal sanctuary in Alajuela, Costa Rica.

Sushi

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Sushi Singularity, which is 3D-printed sushi, was on display at the SXSW conference in Texas.

Ice cream

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Printed treats you can eat! At the Iceason shop in Shanghai, these little characters are made of strawberry milk-flavored ice cream, and crafted by a 3D printer.

A chocolate beer bottle

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Gaetan Richard, founder of the Miam Factory 3D printing chocolate company, creates something you didn't know you needed: a chocolate beer bottle.

A bicycle

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Pictured is a 3D-printed carbon fiber commuter bicycle.

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A 3D-printing robot works at printing a carbon fiber bicycle frame at Arevo Labs in Santa Clara, California.

A motorcycle

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Designer Marco Mattia Cristofori, of the German 3D printer manufacturer BigRep, created a nearly completely 3D-printed e-motorcycle, called "NERA."

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He even took it for a spin at the Tempelhof Airport in Berlin!

A car

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During a tour of Techmer PM, a plastics manufacturing company in Tennessee, Barack Obama took a look at a 3D-printed Shelby Cobra.

Aircraft seats

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Airgo's 3D-printed prototype of their Orion long-haul aircraft seats certainly look like an upgrade from coach.

Violin

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Here French engineer and professional violinist Laurent Bernadac poses with a 3D-printed violin made of transparent resin, called the "3Dvarius."

Plastic working handguns

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In 2014, Yoshimoto Imura became the first man to be arrested in Japan for illegal possession of two plastic handguns he created himself using 3D printing technology.

Adidas shoes

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Would you wear this pair of Adidas shoes printed by a 3D printer?

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Look at the detail of that 3D-printed plastic sole!

Housing

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Researchers from the University of Nantes, in France, kicked off a 3D-printed social housing building called "Yhnova."

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Yhnova uses a construction 3D printing technique known as BatiPrint3D.

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Look at the 3D printing robot in action!

Office space

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These are the world's first functional 3D-printed offices.

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Dubai led the charge on creating these 3D-printed buildings, which certainly bear the image of the future.

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