The Housewarming Party Heard ‘Round the World

We’ve been making huge advances recently (‘we’ being humans) in printing structures. From bridges to bus shelters, these experiments have been pretty literally laying the foundation of all the 3D printed structures to come. Then, this month, SXSW happened. And during the always-hyped 10-day festival of innovation, music, film, and whatever else the organizers decide, New Story and ICON’s 3D printed house stole the show. Developed to eventually cost $4,000 and take no more than 12-24 hours to print, it’s destined for use in developing areas that need sturdy housing. The quick-drying cement used by Icon’s specially-produced Vulcan printer is stronger than traditional concrete. Plus, the house’s desert-chic aesthetic is so hot right now.

Take the full tour below:

Italian architect Massimiliano Locatelli has been teasing a similar 3D printed showplace to be unveiled during next month’s Milan Salone del Mobile — this time with fancier fixtures. Follow his Instagram for updates and, we hope, unbearably chic instas from the show.

BUILD A BIG IDEA

It’s actually rocket science

Why 3D print a rocket? “Rockets are the lightest-weight, most expensive, largest, difficult-to-make thing, that really 3-D printing is the optimal solution for.” That’s coming from Relativity co-founder Tim Ellis, whose company is using the largest metal 3D printer in the world to construct rocket elements (today) and fully 3D printed spacecraft (tomorrow). The printer is (super-nerdily, super-awesomely) named Stargate. Learn more at Futurism, and watch PBS’s interview with Tim Ellis (and other 3D printing wizards) below.

Put these contacts in with your robot hand

Researchers at Northwestern University worked their butts off to solve the trickiest of challenges: creating smooth, layer-less lenses with our favorite layer-by-layer manufacturing technique. After more than 100 tries, the resulting lenses are low-cost, high-quality, and fast-printing. Said Cheng Sun, whose lab developed the process, “Up until now, we relied heavily on the time-consuming and costly process of polishing lenses. With 3D printing, now you have the freedom to design and customize a lens quickly.” This means custom contact lenses, microscopes on iPhones, better imaging during things like endoscopic surgeries — but probably not better selfies.

But what about this robot hand? It’s actually the first fully 3D printed bionic arm, and thanks to Open Bionics, it will be available in April for purchase. The Hero Arm can be endlessly customized in terms of its appearance and fit, and it’s much, much cheaper than the next-least-expensive bionic arm on the market. The name derives from the fact that the company has custom-made a few prototypes that are based on superhero characters. But, an inexpensive bionic arm is also kind of a hero in and of itself. See it in action (hero mode) below.

Even better than the ugly sneaker trend

The 3D printed shoe proto-trend became even more fun this month when Reebok got into the game with its Liquid Floatride sneaker drop. Adidas, New Balance, and Under Armour have already brought some offerings to market, and now that Reebok’s Liquid Factory (where a proprietary material is responsible for the kicks’ 3D printed elements) is up and running, our 3D print-shod future is looking so, so cool.

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Wakanda Forever

Not only did we get to see “Black Panther” this month, we also found out that some important parts of the magic of Wakanda were 3D printed. Working with 3D designer Julia Koerner, legendary costume designer Ruth Carter incorporated 3D printed elements into the film’s regal fashions. Watch the Racked feature on it here.

A still from Racked’s feature on the costumes of “Black Panther”

So many feels

In medical news, we’re going to pull a “This Is Us” and start with… well, you’ll see. That would be this ugly-cry-inducing story from the BBC about rescue doggo Duke, who needed a paw. Luckily, 3D printing was there to give him just that. And in other touching, adorable news, 3D printing is helping visually impaired children in the classroom. Watch the video and feel nothing, we dare you:

But, we’re not done yet with your heart just yet. Ten years ago, professional snowboarder Mike Schultz had an accident that led to the amputation of his left leg. He turned his injury to his advantage, creating a company, BioDapt, that makes the specialty prosthetics sported by this year’s Paralympians — including Mike Schultz himself. Read more about how 3D printing powers his creations at Engadget, and see what adaptive athletes have done with BioDapt’s prostheses, below:

There were a lot of other astounding medical 3D printing accomplishments announced in February. This beautiful brace (the UNYQ Align by Francis Butonti) was displayed this month at the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in NYC. Meanwhile, UK researchers made progress toward creating 3D printed cell tissues, and one startup, BioLife4D, announced that it plans to focus on “building” hearts. Godspeed, BioLife4D.

PROTOTYPE YOUR BIG IDEA

Style is ageless

In up-and-coming style icon news, this month we met incredible teenager Shami Oshun, who taught herself 3D printing for apparel design, which is so much cooler than what I was doing as a teen. See her tweets and bow down:

Hi Twitter, my name is Shami Oshun. I am 18. I taught myself how to 3D print in August 2017. As of today I am the youngest person and first black person to 3D print fashion. I hope this inspires other black girls to pursue careers in tech and fashion #BlackHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/OST0ScgttM

— Oshun (@bluexheeta) February 8, 2018

And if you follow car news, you’ll know that Porsche has figured out what you have known for so long: 3D printing is great for replacing parts that don’t exist anymore for the classic things that you love. The iconic, stylish carmaker is 3D printing things like a clutch release lever for the 959. Sounds… like a car thing!

Medtech won’t quit

Thanks to scientists at the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, we are now closer than ever before to something you might not have even dreamed about, which is printing microscopic devices inside the body. And, in the meantime, their technique could simply deliver super-ultra-high-res 3D prints. Merci, y’all.

In Australia, the excellently named Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics has created something equally excellent: a clip-on smartphone microscope that can help people in remote locations analyze water cleanliness, test blood samples, and detect disease at an early stage. So… our iPhone addictions could save our lives? Right?

It’s 2018. Stop watching ‘Encino Man.’

Brits learned this month that their ancient ancestors looked different than many had imagined. With the help of DNA analysis and 3D printing, a team from London’s Natural History Museum and University College London revealed the face of a 10,000-year-old Cheddar Grove, Somerset man. With dark skin, blue eyes, and curly hair, “Cheddar Man” most surprised people who’d seen “Encino Man” too many times.

If we build it…

A Long Island company has proven that they can 3D print a home that’s 70% cheaper and 200% stronger than traditionally constructed homes. While that company’s paperwork clears, Chinese manufacturer WinSun continues to forge ahead with large-scale 3D printed construction, this month unveiling these Shanghai-area bus shelters.

Not to be outdone, Made in Space printed out the world’s longest single 3D printed piece (a beam) in the world — in their terrestrial offices. Next up: condos on the moon (dibs).

See you in March! And in the meantime…

PRINT SOMETHING

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They did it for Princess Leia

Scientists at Brigham Young University tugged at our heartstrings this week, releasing the results of the Princess Leia Project. “Our group has a mission to take the 3D displays of science fiction and make them real. We have created a display that can do that,” project lead and holography expert Daniel Smalley explained. They did it using techniques cribbed from 3D printing, as ZDNet reported. Their inspiration was, of course, Princess Leia’s poignant holographic cry for help that pulled us all into the Star Wars universe. I’m not crying. You’re crying.

In less nostalgic but incredibly impactful future tech news, we’ve known for a little while that new ways of 3D printing powders could lead to printable pharmaceuticals, but now, there’s a plan. As Motherboard reported, a team of researchers at the University of Glasgow have put together a system that, for $2000, will be able to 3D print machines that produce specific drugs. Take that, big pharma.

Into the stratosphere

3D printing applications soared this week, with the successful test-firing of the European Ariane 6 spacecraft’s partially 3D printed Vulcan 2.1 engine, sexy Italian supercar maker Bugatti’s new 3D printed titanium brake caliper, and genius, groundbreaking designer Iris van Herpen’s cutting-edge couture that takes 3D printed fashion to newly beautiful and transcendent places. Once again, our favorite manufacturing technique is fueling out-of-this-world creativity — just like we always knew it could.

Modder, madder, better

Once again this week, 3D printing is saving a gaming product from its own design limitations, as maker and game artist Clinton Strawn released a thumbstick mod for the HTC Vive controller that you can print right here. Thank God for mods.

In other, more whimsical news, a VERY determined trio of UT Austin students spent a year developing a totally novel 3D printed 6-string violin in order to fulfill the singular dream of violinist Sean Riley to play John Adams’ Dharma at Big Sur. Like so much incredible art, this one started with a big, slightly crazy “Why not?” We’re all for it.

And, our favorite dreamy science speculation blog, Futurism, examined what 3D printing will look like in 100 years. While some imagined that we’d see the world 3D printing everything at home as of 2018, Futurism looks at a more realistic, though no less fantastical vision of the future. Today’s daydreams, tomorrow’s reality.

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In your shoes, in your car

It’s everywhere! Mass-manufactured 3D printed products are finally getting into customer hands… or onto their feet and into their garages. That’s because adidas’ long-anticipated Futurecraft 4D shoes with 3D printed midsoles finally dropped this week. And MINI announced that in 2018, customers can personalize their rides through the new MINI Yours Customized program. Hopefully, this will show everyone what we already know: that 3D printing CAN MAKE (almost) ANYTHING.

Carbon tech, adidas hype

The Greatest Show on Earth (but not the only show in town)

CES is paradise for geeks, futurists, audiophiles, 3D designers — basically, anyone who is really into any technologies available to consumers. That’s why it’s a good place to spot the kind of 3D technology that could one day (soonish) be in your house. There were a couple of standouts at this year’s CES, which ended last Friday: Ethereal Machines’ “5D printing,” a 5-axis 3D printer with a rotating build plate, and the HP Z 3D Camera, which turns an easily-mountable camera into a scanner and facial-recognition tool. Some very cool news also came from outside the consumersphere: Another rotating 3D printer part, this time the printhead, was demonstrated by Harvard researchers to increase the strength, stiffness, and resistance of 3D printed parts. And in another leap forward for really, really big 3D printers, a new printer from CEAD is already contracted to print ships. We’ll see that one in action at CES 2030.

The HP Z 3D Camera (source)

Breathe easy and break a leg

It might not solve all our problems, but I mean, 3D printing can now print structures that could regrow lung and brain tissue, plus titanium bone replacement meshes that are often better than bone grafts. It’s not a license to live dangerously, but it might just be there for us when we inevitably do.

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Florida Man’s Best Tale Yet

We’ve all had some fun with the Florida Man meme from time to time. But just as the only reason that that meme exists is Florida’s amazing open records law, not all Florida Man reports have unhappy (or weird) stories behind them. St. Petersburg, Florida man Francisco Piedra fell onto some hard luck when a side effect of a medication used during heart surgery left him a quadruple amputee. Unable to afford the prosthetics he needed, Piedra relied on the help of the Hanger Clinic for his legs and the volunteers of e-NABLE for 3D printed prosthetic hands. Read more of the heartwarming tale here. And never laugh at another Florida Man story again (unless it involves alligators).

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A simple model like this one can be used to create 3D printed prosthetics for patients like Francisco Piedra (Photo by IntelFreePress on VisualHunt.com / CC BY-SA)

Blowing Up Your Feed

Ok, this story might not go viral, but a printer that can print layers of explosives’ components, eliminating the need for humans to touch each of those components or the final, explosive mixture — well, that’s actually a very big deal. A group of researchers at Purdue University developed a specialized printer with a mobile print bed (rather than a moveable nozzle), which builds an ignitable nanothermite material out of layers of other nanomaterials. Discover the explosive final feat of the research at Interesting Engineering.

Like a FitBit for Your Fiddle-Leaf Fig

The Internet of Things has now extended to plants: Iowa State University has developed “tattoo sensors” that attach to leaves. These “wearables” can measure the transpiration from plants, so scientists can develop plants with greater drought-resistance. The sensors are also cheap — costing, ultimately, cents. Learn all the details here, and remember: one day your plants will be able to tell you when you’ve been neglecting them.

Photo courtesy Iowa State University

Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself

The more a 3D print differs from its original file, the more compromised its ability to do the job it’s being printed for. It’s a problem that will only get bigger as everything from cars to spaceships get 3D printed parts. Fortunately a group of North Dakota researchers has made progress in solving it. Using sensor data from digital imaging, their just-patented system either compares the print with a reference print or with its CAD model in real time, as the print progresses. Learn how routine printer maintenance birthed this brilliance here.

Sick Burn

This year’s Burning Man will feature a digitally fabricated Temple (a central feature of Black Rock City, which you can learn more about here). The design, called Galaxia, will center around a 3D printed mandala. Somewhat sadly, the structure will be built, only to be destroyed. In Silicon Valley, this is considered profound. See more gorgeous photos of the planned structure here.

Photo courtesy Mamou-Mani

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If Star Trek is going to be real, it’s going to start here

I can’t even believe I’m writing this, but here goes: A group of researchers has been able to create 3D prints that cure almost instantaneously in the crosshairs of beams of light. Through this holographic patterning of light fields, resins harden in three dimensions simultaneously, dramatically reducing some of 3D printing’s biggest limitations. Learn more at TechCrunch, and real the whole paper, One-step volumetric additive manufacturing of complex polymer structures, here.

Holoprinting at work

In another leap toward a more Federation-like future, a pair of Dutch designers has successfully turned algae into a bioplastic 3D printing filament suitable for many plastic applications. The algae polymer may end up “eventually entirely replacing plastics made from fossil fuels like oil,” through a series of local 3D Bakeries — if designers Eric Klarenbeek and Maartje Dros get their way. You can read more about this ultra-sustainable future at Dezeen, as part of their excellent Good Design for a Bad World series.

And to complete our transition into a more sustainable world, we’re getting a hand from that most maligned of planet-polluting plastic objects, the plastic water bottle. Forbes has the story of Bottletop, a boutique in London that will have an entirely 3D printed interior, primarily made from Reflow, a filament composed of plastic waste. The flooring? Recycled tires. The finishing touch? 60,000 upcycled plastic bottles. Until all of our plastics are made from algae, here’s hoping Reflow will help us reuse more of that 300 million tons of plastic produced each year….

Practical Magic

OK, holographic 3D printing may be the highest-tech 3D world news in the past week, but technical breakthroughs don’t have to come from such sci-fi, futuristic places. The other big story of the week came from the University of Washington, where researchers were able to create 3D printed, Wi-Fi connected devices that are totally wireless — in other words, non-electronic electronics. Using 3D printed springs, gears, and switches that connect to embedded antennae, the objects reflect ambient Wi-Fi signals. Read the full story at Engadget, and if you get inspired to create your own elaborate, Wi-Fi connected Rube Goldberg devices, please send gifs.

But, what if electricity-free “electronics” weren’t just for Wi-Fi? In other astounding news this week, researchers at MIT have successfully printed bacterial bio-ink-based living computers. By combining lines of printed bacteria with different chemicals, the scientists were able to created interacting networks that could one day be the basis of tech that delivers medicine via ingestible living robots. Quartz has a nice rundown, and you can watch the full story (and feel pretty smart in the process), below.

Now Hear This

Hearing aids have made big advances in recent years, but a totally new road to hearing restoration is now opening up, thanks to 3D printing. As Digital Trends reported, new 3D printed bones will replace the tiny, delicate middle-ear bones that can become damaged, leading to hearing loss. Researcher from Baltimore’s University of Maryland School of Medicine still have a ways to go before this technique is ready for use, but early indications are promising. So far, this makes sternums, tibias, jaws, noses, skulls, and ears that we can or will be able to mend with 3D printing in the near future. Let’s hope that, by the time we all reach our golden years, we’ve perfected replication of every single organ. Music to our ears.

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Cover image via the Advanced Science News YouTube channel.

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Fast-Forward

In techniques and materials this week, MIT unveiled a printing technique that, by melting the plastic much more quickly, results in what can only be described as FDM 3D printing on speed (view it in action below, and learn more at TechCrunch), researchers from the U.K.’s University of Nottingham figured out how to print working circuit boards using UV light (Digital Trends has the full story), and West Africa’s WoeLab has created a 3D printer made of e-waste, turning a massive pollution problem into an economic opportunity (via CNN).

Would you like eyes with that?

Soon, skin and other organs will be replaceable with 3D printing, if two teams of researchers can scale their incredible discoveries. Punny Swedish bioprinting firm Cellink created a bio-ink containing human cells that will be useful for testing cosmetics in the near term and growing organs in the long-term, as the BBC reported. In another leap forward for bio-inks, a team of scientists has developed a bacterial cellulose ink that takes a material that was limited to sheets (great for surface lesions, not so much for organ cancers) into the 3rd dimension, meaning deeper-tissue applications are on the way (get the nitty-gritty details at The Verge).

Up where the air is clear

It might not surprise you that up high, the wind blows stronger. But, for windmill manufacturers on the cusp on a global wind energy revolution, certain heights are unreachable for traditionally manufactured turbines. Imagine a 10-story-tall building with a three-story building slung across the top, cruising down the highway, and the problem immediately becomes clear. California’s RCAM Technologies is looking to bridge the gap between those high-velocity, higher-altitude wind zones and the power-generating windmills that need to reach them. The answer is on-site reinforced concrete 3D printing, allowing windmills to reach almost double the height of the tallest traditionally manufactured turbines. Read more at Green Tech Media, and watch it in action below.

Cover image: Wind Turbines and Mt. Hood by flickr user lamoix, CC BY 2.0

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Software

Stratysys is debuting the J750 3D Printing Solution software, which allows users to design for printing in specific materials, while Sigma Labs is releasing web-based quality assurance software PrintRite3D INSPECT, and Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence is tackling improving print quality with a stable of software tools like Simufact Additive, a simulation tool for predicting and reducing distortion in powder-bed printing.

Machines and Manufacturing

EOS is going after mass additive manufacturing in plastics with its new EOS P 500 polymer printer, while Mimaki and Verashape are both bringing promising innovations to the show. Mimaki’s 3DUJ-553 will be the first full-color 3D printer that can print up to 10 million color combinations, and Verashape’s VSHAPER has a 5-axis kinematics system and a rotating working platform, allowing users to print in multiple materials and on top of what was previously printed. And EnvisionTEC will premiere a set of upsized printers, including the Perfactory 4 LED XXL, which features the largest build area on the market for DLP 3D printing.

Metal and Multi-Material Printing

Do four lasers equal 4x print speeds? That’s the promise of Renishaw’s RenAM 500Q metal 3D printing system. Meanwhile, XJet, Optomec, and ACEO are all releasing multi-material 3D printers at the conference. XJet’s Carmel printers rely on NanoParticle Jetting Technology that layers nanoparticles of either metal or ceramics, Optomec’s LENS 3D Hybrid Machine Tool can mix aluminum, titanium and other reactive metals, and ACEO’s “drop on demand” technology is a multi-material silicone 3D printing process.

There will be so much more to see and do at formnext, but these are the booths we’re starting with. If you’re at formnext this week, stop by and learn more about how Shapeways brings additive manufacturing to all at Hall 3.0 Booth H73. We’ll see you in Frankfurt!

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When the print bed covers serious acreage

Cazza is a Silicon Valley 3D printing construction startup with plans that might not be out of this world, like those of NASA’s 3D Printed Habitat Challenge, but they do nearly reach the stratosphere. As GineersNow reported, the United Arab Emirates has set an ambitious goal of 3D printing 25% of new buildings in Dubai by 2030. There’s informed speculation that this could mean a 3D printed skyscraper from our friends at Cazza. CEO Chris Kelsey doesn’t deny it, but he does say that the 3D printers needed will be developed “within the next five years.” That should give the Cazza team plenty of time to put together the magic combination of tools that will deliver unheard-of efficiencies and bespoke engineering solutions. We’ll keep our eyes on the sky.

Nintendo did not see this one coming

It turns out that cheap 3D ultrasounds were not as far away as we thought. That’s all thanks to physician Josh Broder, who, inspired by a Nintendo Wii gaming experience, took the microchip that tracks Wii controllers in space and put it to a new use. With researchers from Duke and Stanford, he developed a cheap 3D printed casing for the microchip — one that connects easily to all commercially available ultrasound probes. With the casing and chip attached, a normal ultrasound machine gains imaging capabilities closer to exponentially more expensive methods: MRI and CT scans. Plus, it can now take lots of very cute 3D fetus pics.

Read the whole story at New Atlas, and see it in action below:

Steel yourself, old steel

It’s hard-to-impossible to traditionally manufacture steel that is both incredible strong and ductile (that’s flexible and resilient, in laypeople speak). But, as phys.org reported this week, a supergroup of researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Library, Ames National Laboratory, Georgia Tech, and Oregon State University have used 3D printing to do just that. Their new marine-grade stainless steel, called 316L, is 3D printed from models that make use of steel’s underlying microstructure to break the strength-ductility tradeoff barrier. And, the discovery was kind of an accident. As Lawrence Livermore scientist Alex Hamza put it, “We didn’t set out to make something better than traditional manufacturing; it just worked out that way.”

If the gas fits…

There are a lot of reasons to find new ways to get rid of methane (ahem, global warming, ahem), but one of the most exciting we’ve heard about, for obvious reasons, is turning it into a thermoplastic that can be used in 3D printing. You can read the (science-rich) full story at 3Ders.org, but in short: Funded by a grant from the NSF, Montana State University researchers are exploring using the methane-producing microbes in Yellowstone National Park to produce plastics. While we dream of scaling up to a world-impacting solution, the scientists are at the early stages of exploring how to make these methane microbes make organic compounds that could become plastics. But we see which way the wind is blowing.

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#DutchPride, Part Deux

The Netherlands is really making this Dutch-born company feel all warm and fuzzy lately. First, the world’s first 3D printed cycling bridge opened in Gemert, and now, Amsterdam is on the verge of welcoming 3D printed floors and an even cooler 3D printed bridge to its historic environs. Yes, we’re bragging. Learn more at FastCoDesign and Slash Gear.

Beating Cancer, One 3D Print at a Time

Last week we encountered a 3D printed sternum. Now, the BBC brings us the story of a woman saved with a 3D printed titanium jawbone. The implant represents a vast improvement over the old take-some-fibula-and-make-it-work method. Heck, 3D printing has even improved that old-fashioned fibula jaw implant method by providing a 3D model of the patient’s jawbone that can be used to cut precisely fitting pieces of the fibula. These latest successes could mean a future where no bone is unrepairable.

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3D printed jaw implant recipient Debbie Hawkins and her medical team (image via ABM Health Board)

Multi-Material Magic

Silicone 3D printing has been a somewhat elusive goal, but German 3D printer company ACEO has reached it, and then some. As TCT reported, the company will debut multi-material silicone 3D printing at Form Next in Frankfurt next month. “Silicones of different colors, hardness or even chemical or physical properties can now be placed independent from each other at any given point throughout the process,” explained Dr. Bernd Pachaly, the project lead. This could have all kinds of applications in medical modeling, product development, and mass manufacturing of silicone 3D prints. And, it’s a big step toward printing multi-material machines and biomimicking models. That means we’re just a little bit closer to the “Star Trek replicator” dream.

A piece of multi-material 3D printed silicone (Photo: ACEO®; Wacker Chemie AG)

Threat…itunity!

What’s a threatitunity? I’m so glad you asked. It’s that combination of a clearly foreseeable challenge (threat) and the time needed to develop the tools to face it (opportunity). And that is what we have on our hands with 3D printing cybersecurity. As the Harvard Business Review discussed this week, hacks could lead to the physical instability of printed parts, which can pose incredible dangers, obviously, but also the kind of product recall nightmares that keep employees, CEOs, and shareholders up at night. If we can’t solve this, the era of mass manufacturing with 3D printing is threatened. Thankfully, as the technology develops, novel solutions are coming to light. Challenges + brains = innovations. And that’s a threatitunity.

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