Sure, printing technology is moving ahead in leaps and bounds, but it’s not like we’ve been able to do anything really cool with it yet. Like say, stick it on our fingernails… UNTIL NOW. This week, we’re obsessed with two new companies that are using high-tech laser and 3D printing to take nail art to the next level. And, just a reminder, this is the level nail art was already at:
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So what could be better than putting cupcakes on your fingers? How about your own Instagram photos on your fingers?
Oh yes. Nail Snaps is a Kick Starter fund to make this particularly beautiful dream a reality. They’re more than halfway to meeting budget, and for a measly $10, you could be one of the first people on board with the project. That is – one of the first Official Winners of Nail Art. Game. Set. Manicured. Not an Insta-fan? Think of the other potential uses. You could use Nail Snaps to turn your hands into an RIP Patrick shrine just in time for Offspring to come back on air. Or give your friend stick-on nail art of her own ultrasound pictures as a baby shower gift (okay, that one might be a little creepy). If you’re looking for something a little (read: a lot) more ostentatious, The Laser Girls are using 3D printing to make fake nails that are the envy of all the ladies in Legoland.
They also do cow skulls, pearls, molecules and all sorts of other madness you’d never dream could go on a fingernail, all of which you can see in the gallery below.
Finally, a non-scary piece of nail art news.
Would you experiment with crazy nail art? Let us know in the comments!
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Not being able to do something cool with it yet?? Um how about the ongoing attempts to print things like a kidney so that when the kidney I donated to my partner last year fails then rather than having to rely on another person hopefully they will have perfected printing one with his genetic make up so not only is he healthy but he will no longer have to take the 30+ daily drug cocktail that currently keeps him alive.
I absolutely believe that 3D printing will transform our lives in many ways but please do not reduce it's "really cool" uses to only it's fickle matters - people's lives rely on it doing the truly cool stuff it will potentially do.