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“You jump, I jump”, when the 3D movie “Titanic” is on, many people in the cinema get their glasses off and put them on from time to time, simply trying to make sure their 3D glasses stand well against their ordinary glasses… What a hard time you’re going through! Throw those 3D glasses away and have a try with these innovative stickers. Cut out of a shape bigger than average glasses, these stickers are especially good to those who need to wear glasses, allowing them to view 3D movies more comfortably and conveniently.

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3D printing technology is undoubtedly quite popular all over the world, as scientists at University of Exeter have even created a chocolate printer that can make unique chocolate animals or patterns using melt chocolate.

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Developed by HITlabNZ (Human Interface Technology Lab New Zealand), the coloring book here can swift waxed objects into 3D animations for Window users. The technology is made possible by using a program called colAR that gives objects on printable 2D books the depth. The 3D scenes can even be rotated to be viewed from different angles, too.

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What landscape would you like to bring to your house? This deluge 3D Curtain gives one easy access to an unusual 3D world. The curtain consists of several layers and each layer is painted with different figures in depth, including plants and animals, which makes it work as a 3D panorama. Especially when during the night, it’s really hard to distinguish whether it’s real or virtual…

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Available from BlackMilk, the stylish shirt comes with a 3D skeletal print, which resembles the skeleton of human’s. Along with the shirt, there’s even a set of requisite glasses, with which you’ll find the shirt in front of you become more vivid, as a result.

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Believe me, even when you’re 83 years old, you can still have a solid jaw as that of your granddaughter’s. Quite impressively, doctors from the University of Hasselt, Belgium have managed to have an 83-year-old woman’s entire lower jaw replaced with a 3D printed replica, which turns out easy to use while resulting no problems now. Compared with common methods to replace a lower jaw, the 3D printed jaw requires fewer materials and costs less time, usually taking merely several hours to produce a jaw. To make it compatible with bodily tissue, the jaw is coated with ceramic too. Besides, it weighs 3.7oz, just 1oz heavier than a real lower jaw, and hence the users won’t feel uncomfortable or painful when using it.

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Can you figure out whether these fish are true or fake, if without a closer observation (in fact I don’t think observation can work to tell us the truth this time…)?  Really good work, these fish are actually three-dimensional paintings created by Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori. Each piece consists of multiple transparent layers, with realistic fish painted on them after each layer of liquid resin becomes solid. Rightly by repeating that process, the artist could finally bring us so incredible 3D paintings.

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You’ve got anything more attractive than this 3D fingernail gun art, at the very beginning of 2012? No, at least that’s my answer. Designed by Laurent Theopane Bertrand, these amazing fingernails are especially created for the cover of London-based SuperSuper! magazine, and we bet it would soon become a new fashion trend worldwide.

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What’s this, a huge cube? Of course it is, but it’s exactly also a three dimensional kite formed by 1,700 3D printed connected segments. It seems extremely bulky, but can actually levitate steadily due to its lightweight composition of carbon fiber rods and cubenfibre aerospace fabric.

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3D Cabinet created by cleverly arranging bright yellow color and plain black color… Quite simple concept, but really amazing art.

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While the whole world fall in love with iPhone, iPhone loudly says “I love 3D”. To show its love for the popular technology, the Apple Company recently launched an iOS app that allows your iPhone to take 3D photos or shoot 3D videos. The “Snappily” is use to operate, simply download it onto your iPhone, follow the instructions on the screen and then you can make some 3D images. According to reviews, the app seems bit of difficult to get used to, but once you do, the 3D effects are fantastic.

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2D or 3D, currently almost all designs are seemingly to face that question. But actually it’s not that difficult to make a decision, because one could become both 2D and 3D at the same time. The Keyboard Wall is rightly a good example. It’s constructed with thousands of keys collected from old computer keyboards, creating a 2D image when you view them from the front while offering 3D pleasure as well since you can feel their unique shapes.

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Scribbled Line People is collaborative work between Ayaka Ito and Randy Church, who have used applications like Flash and Photoshop to reconfigure images into interwoven portraits. It seems bit of weird, as the artwork isn’t something beautiful or elegant, but it’s truly amazing.

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We’re now in a time full of 3D products: the 3D movies, 3D glasses, 3D TVs, 3D computers, and also the 3D cameras. Launched by Japan-based Panasonic, the “Lumix DMC-3D1″ is a dual-lens camera capable of taking high-resolution 3D images.

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While most designers are busying adding more and more elements into their artworks, Japan-based Yuki Matsueda has, however, managed to let some elements escape from his art pieces. The result seems quite amazing… A vivid 3D image is successfully created and all the elements are believed to be more shocking than those stay still on paper.

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Except for the one we’re now living on, there’s actually another Earth in Paris city. It is a sprawling mass of grass that measures 100 meters in length, totally costing ninety workers five days to build 1200 square meters of lawn and 650 cubic meters of sand in the center of a garden.

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London-based Nails inc. has launched these magnet polish products that can create a stereo image on your finger nails. This series is available in three colors, each of which is mixed with iron powder in it. Once you paint your nails with the polish, place a magnet close to your fingernails and soon you’ll see awesome lines on them.

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Composed of gesture recognition software connected with a 3D depth sensor, a real time 3D video capture module using a 3D video camera and interactive graphic generation software based on a game engine, the 3D AR screen showcased by Aniframe can not only create 3D images but interact with the users. It can recognize and track the gesture of users, allowing them to “draw” images in 3D space. After showing the visual contents via a 3D TV, the system can help the users to browse its 3D contents using their own hand gestures such as tapping and scrolling.

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With 3D technology processing by big steps, now 3D printers can manufacture many more amazing things than we can imagine, from toys, swimwear, food and even artificial blood vessels.

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Wanna to experience any modern but comfortable ways of cooking? Have a look at this 3D Food Printer. It utilizes an electronic blueprint system called “FabApps” that not only allows people to print out their food but also to design something with their imagination. All the “ink” this printer uses is edible, including melted chocolate, cheese or cookie dough. Once the users draw up the food’s design on a computer, the blueprint will then show the printer what goes where, and finally builds up your food with prepared materials. It is said that the 3D printer would soon be launched to market, helping both families and restaurants to customize interesting and healthier dishes. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Seemingly every manufacture is busy with launching new 3D devices, and LG has recently issued its Clip-on 3D Glasses. They’re designed for people that wear glasses and they can function with your regular glasses. All you need to do is to clip them on to your regular glasses and then you can enjoy the 3D movies. No more bothered by “double glasses” thing. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Till now, the International Funkausstellung Berlin 2011 has brought us many surprising designs and products, and today we’d like to add a new one to the list of innovative electronics. It is Sony’s “Lenticular Sheet”, a thin film that can be places in front of any laptop screens to turn them into glass-free 3D displays. With such a product, 3D fanciers would then enjoy 3D films without needing to wear glasses any more. [Read the rest of this entry...]

After quite a long time of research and design, Sony finally issued its ‘Personal 3D Viewer’ Head Mounted Display at IFA in Berlin several days ago, which is claimed to be much better than what it was expected. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A business card was designed not to represent you, but to become you. Whenever you’re planning to change for a new business card, you’d better consider over and over again to make sure that your new card will help others directly to know about you. So, where to get creative inspirations? You may look through these 3D business cards collected here. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Making an airplane is no longer a complex course, because the Southampton University has “printed” out an aircraft in merely a couple of days. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A 3D basketball court seems a little bit ridiculous but it is extraordinarily an awesome idea. Shaped by 3D program on a computer, the new basketball court consists of a soft orange-red tartan covering, two normed baskets and several street lamps that would make the game harder. Located in Munich, Germany, the 3D court welcomes you to go there and have some new fun with it. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Those who have been wading through stacks of bikini for their most-satisfying one would soon finish that boring work with the world’s first 3D bikini printer. Created by Continuum Fashion, this revolutionary device can print out ready-to-wear bikini with a material called Nylon 12, which is soft and endurable. Also, it’s comfortable to wear, easy to clean and feels to be quite refreshed when wet through. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Biased Bookshelf- or more exactly the “Bias of Thought” bookshelf- is a 3D structure created by John Leung for shelving books, hanging magazines and holding your other items. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Running on an athletic track is really boring, as you have to repeat monotonous tasks of turning around a curve and following along straight. Again and again. Fortunately we now have something different: the 3D Athletics Track. It is an alternative track for a conventional one, and it features a raised and three-dimensional shape. So running on athletic tracks will be different now? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Hot summers always leave you exhausted? Never mind, as you may get vigor from these 3D Battery Ice Cubes. Just “charge up” yourself! [Read the rest of this entry...]

How could one make a white living room into a magnificent room within only a few seconds? The answer may be quite clear: he needs to use magic or this unique physical 3D video mapping technology created by Mr. Bram. [Read the rest of this entry...]

So you’ve already gotten 3D television equipment home but still waiting for a TV Serie or another 3D movie to try them? Then congratulations as you can soon watch the world’s first 3D TV series at home. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Unlike common tattoos, these ones from designer Jacob Dahlstrup are created by disordering the paper structure with a tattoo machine. They look really amazing, not only featuring a three-dimensional line but also presenting delicate images. I love them! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Two reasons make these sculptures special: they’re all constructed with colorful matches that we seldom saw before; and all the matches are arranged by hands. But the designer’s hard work is really worthy, because each sculpture here seems fantastic, looking just like the real animals and humans. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What’s the coolest way of redesigning ordinary paper pieces? Well if you could cut them into delicate 3D sculptures and make them attract every viewer, then you’re definitely successful. At least as successful as Elsa Mora. Using a knife and some special wooden tools, the genius designer has created several amazing paper sculptures, which in Elsa’s opinion “couldn’t be more perfect”. Do you agree with that? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Creativity has driven Google Lab to move on and recently it has demoed a new WebGL application called Body Browser. It is a detailed 3D model of human body, helping users to understand the human body better by peeling back the anatomical layers and navigating to various parts that they may be interested in. If you’re using a browser that supports WebGL, you can now have a try with the interesting Body Browser. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Often a delicate sculpture announced to be made with a large amount of materials, but these Mikro Metal Sculptures from Sam Buxton each boasted to make a maximum use of merely one 0.15mm thick stainless steel sheet. But the results are still remarkable and hopefully you’ll enjoy them as we do. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This 3D Drawing Pad offers you a unique painting experience, however it is not what you draw on the pad changes but the stereographic background changes. Whatever you draw on it with black ink, you’ll always see the paintings float and move in the front. Really interesting. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Hou Zhengfeng, an interior designer from Henan Province of China, is now commonly known as “The Best Artist of Chalk Paintings” because he has created many fantastic 3D chalk paintings during the past few years. And here are top ten paintings preferred by Chinese internet users and hopefully you’ll also find some fun with them. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Everybody prefers a 3D film experience but they seldom have the chance to create an intimate 3D environment in the palm of their hands. Why? Because they don’t have the V2_! Coming as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011, the new gadget is designed by Jitsuro Mase to present a “Palm Top Theater” so that everybody can have a 3D film experience with their iPhone or iPad. [Read the rest of this entry...]