3D Printed Toys

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MakieLab, a Shoreditch, London-based toy manufacturing company, is now offering customizable 3D printed dolls with movable joints. Customers choose the dolls’ hair, features, hands, feet, hair and clothing.

The dolls aren’t just physical–they exist in the virtual world, too. Doll owners can play games with the virtual versions of the dolls. Based on the accessories the dolls “win” in the virtual game, or the physical changes they undergo, owners can have their dolls physically updated overnight using 3D printing technology at the MakieLabs in London.

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Images via 3ders, Rev Dan Catt, Wired and Cory Doctorow.

Via MakieLab.

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Spike Marlowe and her Siamese twin sister were born to academics in Provo, Utah during the region’s speculative fiction renaissance. Since her teenage years, when Spike’s parents and sister entered the Federal Witness Protection Program--which necessitated the surgical separation of Spike from her sister (if you buy her a couple drinks and ask nicely, Spike may show you the scars)--she has held a variety of odd jobs, including a performer in a wild west show, detective, Bigfoot researcher and writer for an Internet content farm. Recently she found her calling as a Bizarro author. When she’s not writing fiction she works as a street busker in San Francisco. At night she fights crime. Her first novel, Placenta of Love, will be released by Eraserhead Press in November 2011.

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