Overland Park store offers visitors 3D doppelgangers
3D printing is a technology with a lot of hype and attention, and a new store is offering customers in the Kansas City area a chance to see it up close and personal.
The Doob Store, an Overland Park startup, uses 3D printing to produce miniature paper models of visitors and their families. The result is a novel, if potentially uncanny, souvenir.
The Doob Store is named for its signature machine ‘The Dooblicator’. The cylindrical Dooblicator uses 66 cameras to capture a three-dimensional image, which can then be recreated using a specialized printer. The whole process takes about two weeks.
The business is owned by attorney Malik James and businessman Nick Nikkah as a fun side enterprise from their more serious business. Similar stores have opened everywhere from New York to Kuala Lumpur, and their products have been used for marketing, wedding souvenirs, and more. James explained to KMBC News:
"Law is something I hold as a strong profession and career but this is something that I find to be very exciting."
Technical advances in printing are near constant, and can be seen everywhere from novel services like Dooblication to the stationery printers at a local print shop. In particular, proponents of 3D printing hope that it can be used to produce industrial goods and tools of the future.
The Doob Store, an Overland Park startup, uses 3D printing to produce miniature paper models of visitors and their families. The result is a novel, if potentially uncanny, souvenir.
The Doob Store is named for its signature machine ‘The Dooblicator’. The cylindrical Dooblicator uses 66 cameras to capture a three-dimensional image, which can then be recreated using a specialized printer. The whole process takes about two weeks.
The business is owned by attorney Malik James and businessman Nick Nikkah as a fun side enterprise from their more serious business. Similar stores have opened everywhere from New York to Kuala Lumpur, and their products have been used for marketing, wedding souvenirs, and more. James explained to KMBC News:
"Law is something I hold as a strong profession and career but this is something that I find to be very exciting."
Technical advances in printing are near constant, and can be seen everywhere from novel services like Dooblication to the stationery printers at a local print shop. In particular, proponents of 3D printing hope that it can be used to produce industrial goods and tools of the future.