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Very exciting app that lowers the entry bar on 3D composing for 3D printing using the Android phone/tablet platform. Looks like they are doing a lot of the heavy lifting that is hard for beginning designers, but I hope they can also accommodate more advanced, manual techniques as a user gains skill and confidence.  Video after the cut.

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Mystech: I’ve had this very same urge myself at times, though I have no doubt its harder than the fantasy.

Nikos Gavalas and Alexandra Tricha, both 31 and trained as agriculturalists, were frustrated working on poorly paying, short-term contracts in Athens, where jobs are scarce and the cost of living is high. So last year, they decided to start a new project:growing edible snails for export.

As Greece’s blighted economy plunges further into the abyss, the couple are joining with an exodus of Greeks who are fleeing to the countryside and looking to the nation’s rich rural past as a …
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