Ortery’s Photosimile 5000 3D photocopier has taken two years to go on sale since it first surfaced in 2008, providing digital 3D replicas of whatever object you place inside it. Think of the possibilities!
Once the object is placed on the Ortery turntable inside the box, a Canon DSLR takes 360-degree photos, with the four daylight bulbs giving 6500K of illumination – the perfect lighting conditions for the 72 photos taken.
Connected to a PC by USB, the images are saved as GIF or Flash files, and then transferred to the Photosimile software. If all of this is getting you hot under the collar at the thought of such a machine, better schedule a meeting in with your bank manager – it’s $US17,000 and has just started shipping. [Ortery via Gizmag via TechRadar]
Anon
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 7:54 PMThis is kind of misleading. I was expecting a device which actually captured a physical object in 3D, not take a few controlled photos of it.
Jason
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 10:54 PMI thought it would be able to create a copy of an object, a la those printers that print with pulverised plastic. I expected to be able to open a drawer and an actual physical object.