Product Description:
The polyamide-nylon Omi pendant could be hanging origami. Designer Assa Ashuach uses selective laser sintering to create and solidify the folds, adding one slice on top of another to form a 50-watt halogen pendant. The carbon wires are adjustable.
Company Description:
Begun as a joint venture with the University of Leuven-Belgium, Materialise was one of the first European rapid prototyping service bureaus. It has since grown into a European supplier of plastic prototype solutions, and today is a worldwide leader in the rapid prototyping industry. Materialise offers a broad range of rapid prototyping, tooling and digital CAD software. In addition, Materialise prototypes and software have established a reputation in medicine and dentistry, with clinicians the world over using them in the most complex surgical cases. Its design products division concentrates on the development of rapid manufacturing. The company is privately owned with several subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and the USA, and employs over 300 people in its 4 divisions.
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