Designed specifically for the International Space Station, the Artec Space Spider is one of the fastest, most reliable precision 3D scanners on the market today. In a portable 3D scanner industry with only a few high-end players (Canada’s Creaform and Luxembourg’s Artec), the upgrade from Artec’s Spider to the Space Spider can only be described as breathtaking.

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Armed with slit laser triangulation technology capable of a 0.25 mm scan accuracy, the da Vinci 1.0 Pro 3in1 is a multi-purpose 3D printer designed for DIY makers. With automatic imaging taking only 5 minutes at a scan resolution of 3 x 3 cm to 15 x 15 cm, XYZprinting built the “perfect machine for becoming your own manufacturer.”

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Bottom line: The iPad mountable iSense 3D Scanner is a functional device that can be greatly enhanced by third-party 3D printing applications. With a scan volume that ranges between 8″ and 118 inches, DIYers can scan, crop, edit, enhance and export their scanned objects using the iSense companion app. But if you’re looking for a 0.1mm high-resolution scanner with geometric precision, this is not the device for you. As the saying goes, “you get what you pay for it.”

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Holus

Designed to bring back family game night, Vancouver-based H+ Technologies has created a hologram device that turns 2D into highly interactive 3D content.

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RealView’s Image Intimacy™ is the world’s first 3D medical holography system displaying hyper-realistic 3D hologram images “floating in the air”. Soon your doctor will be able to touch a 3D hologram of your heart suspended in mid-air.

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