These 3D Printed Masks Are a Mugger's Dream Come True [Japan]

By Adrian Covert Oct 10, 2011 5:40 PM 23,060 36

For $4000, a Japanese company called Real-f will make a photorealistic mask of your face they call a three-dimensional photo form. Sure, you can tell it's fake if you look close enough. But what if you weren't looking so closely?

I could imagine a mugger wearing a mask that looked nothing like their face, and if they acted quickly enough, could potentially get away without victims or witnesses or cameras realizing they had a mask on. That's an unnerving thought! That said, the mask itself looks awesome thanks to some special techniques described by TechCrunch:

The way it works is that REAL-f first shoots pictures of a person's face from various positions and imprints the image on vinyl chloride resin stretched over a mold. According to the company, it's unique production technology makes sure that even details like the iris and blood vessels are replicated accurately (see the pictures to judge for yourself)."

I don't want to look at this picture anymore. The girl in the lower right part of the photo is going to haunt my dreams. [Real-f via TechCrunch]

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City Cyclists Should Be Wearing Respirator Gas Masks [Bikes]

Cyclists traveling the car-filled streets of a city have one more hazard to worry about - black carbon from air pollution.

A recent study looked at the the respiratory health of Londoners who bike or walk to work. The team collected sputum samples and measured the amount of black carbon each group inhaled. They discovered cyclists had inhaled 2.3 times more of the nasty stuff than their walking friends.

The team attributed this unhealthy increase to the biker's higher breathing rates. Though bikers could get to work faster and spent less time in the polluted air, they took in more air because of their exercising. They are also on the road, closer to the cars and their exhaust fumes. Just lovely. [European Respiratory Society via Scientific American]

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