This Is Your Brain On Mass Customization
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 03.27.08
Alexander Lervik took an MR scan of his own brain, processed it through a 3-D printer, and turned it into a lampshade. Never was the concept of mass-customization demonstrated so graphically. ::Lervik Design via ::Boing Boing
To the inevitable question "Why is this on TreeHugger?" Such technologies will let you order up exactly what you want from the world's best designers and have it made to your specifications right where you are. See In An Absolut World Everything is Downloadable
See more from TreeHugger on mass customization at Green Materials + Mass Customization = Peter Pless's Comp Lounge, Design Democracy Competition: Mass Customization Gets Real , Unto This Last: Micro-Manufacturing Hits the High Street and Made-To-Order Muesli
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