{"id":305,"date":"2012-11-28T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/japanese-firm-offers-expectant-parents-3d-printed-fetus-from-mri-scan\/"},"modified":"2012-11-28T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T22:02:00","slug":"japanese-firm-offers-expectant-parents-3d-printed-fetus-from-mri-scan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/japanese-firm-offers-expectant-parents-3d-printed-fetus-from-mri-scan\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese firm offers expectant parents 3D-printed fetus from MRI scan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<\/p>\n<h4>Sent to you via Google Reader<\/h4>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/srRJ61zuue0\/japanese-firm-offers-expectant.html\">Japanese firm offers expectant parents 3D-printed fetus from MRI scan<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bg_foetus4-20121128093216121041-620x349.jpg?resize=620%2C349\" alt=\"\" title=\"bg_foetus4-20121128093216121041-620x349\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\"><\/p>\n<p>Tomohiro Kinoshita with 3D model of 9-month fetus\u00a0in acrylic resin, and small phone charm. Photo: AFP.<\/p>\n<p>A firm in Japan is offering expectant moms and dads the ability to purchase a 3D-printed model of their unborn child, for about $1200 USD. The &#8220;Shape of an Angel&#8221; is about 9cm, in white resin, encased in a transparent block that forms the shape of the mother&#8217;s body. The modeling data comes from an MRI scan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As it is only once in a lifetime that you are pregnant with that child, we received requests for these kind of models from pregnant women who&#8230; do not want to forget the feelings and experience of that time,&#8221; said Tomohiro Kinoshita of FASOTEC, the company offering the service.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It comes with a tiny little version version that can be used as a mobile phone trinket (young women in Japan often dress up their phones with little dangly adornments). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/technology\/technology-news\/japan-firm-offers-3d-model-of-foetus-20121128-2ackw.html#ixzz2DY1ijc3Q\" target=\"_blank\">More in the Australian paper <em>The Age<\/em>.<\/a> <em>(HT: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gromit01\/statuses\/273621954345439232\" target=\"_blank\">@Gromit01<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=bcba188741f3f90e8ea677f573029ed2&#038;p=1\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=bcba188741f3f90e8ea677f573029ed2&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/srRJ61zuue0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sent to you via Google Reader Japanese firm offers expectant parents 3D-printed fetus from MRI scan Tomohiro Kinoshita with 3D model of 9-month fetus\u00a0in acrylic resin, and small phone charm. Photo: AFP. A firm in Japan is offering expectant moms and dads the ability to purchase a 3D-printed model of their unborn child, for about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-4V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}