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Brazilian student Jorge Lopes has brought a stunning and creepy new medical technology to the world. Using MRIs, ultrasounds, and 3-D printers often used for prototyping parts and designs in plastic, Lopes has created life-sized models of unborn children. And it all began life as part of his PhD project at the Royal College of Art (RCA).Here's how he does it: 3-D computer images of a pregnant woman's womb are generated using normal ultrasounds and MRIs. Lopes then feeds these renderings to a 3-D printer, which constructs actual sized models of the child out of plastic powder. Lopes' models are currently on display at an art exhibit at the RCA and, according to the Daily Mail, the medical community is taking a great interest in his technique.
A clinic in Rio de Janeiro is already testing the fetus modeling technology. It could be a way to help mothers-to-be build an emotional bond with their unborn child; particularly blind mothers, for whom an ultra-sound is useless.
It's an interesting idea, with some practical applications, but we can't help but be freaked out by some of the models -- especially the skeletal twins. Shudder. [From: Daily Mail]
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Subscribe to commentspatsw3Jun 28th 2009 1:50PM
The word Terrence O'Brien has used to describe the stage of life that he, I, and all human beings have passed through is "creepy". The word he should have used it "beautiful". The innocent unborn child is beautiful, living, and capable of all the great and wonderful things that human beings do. Every unborn child represents hope for a better world.
bobcatlewJun 28th 2009 2:36PM
It never occurred to me to think that the sight impaired would have bonding issues with their children. This is something extraordinary and wonderful. It's obvious the writer (Terrence O'Brien) is emotionally arrested.
AngieJun 28th 2009 4:49PM
Creepy? Watch sci-fi too much? It's a realistic picture of what goes on inside every pregnant woman's womb, and what YOU looked like before you came into this oxygen-breathing world.
It's a stunning, beautiful-beyond-words picture of WHO WE ARE. Why does that creep you out?