A fascinating use of technology.
Imagine being able to scan your own domestic treasures, or other object, using your mobile phone, storing the details in the cloud and be able to have them re-manufactured in your local high street 3D printing shop or delivered by Amazon on demand. Maybe just a few years away.
External Link/Members OnlyA 12th Century candlestick will "return" to its home city of Gloucester after nearly 900 years after being recreated using 3D printing technology.
The original Gloucester Candlestick has been held in the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London since 1861.
It has been been replicated with modern scanning and 3D printing methods.
Two replica candlesticks have been made and will be displayed in Gloucester Cathedral, one in the gallery chapel and the other in the treasury.
The original gilded copper candlestick was made in about 1110 and commissioned by Abbot Peter for St Peter's Abbey in Gloucester
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