Taking a creative spin on 3D printing, one Brooklyn, New York-based small business has gone from sex toy prototypes to a product for the masses, much cheaper and faster than it would take using more traditional methods, according to its founders.
Dame Products, the maker of a hands-free vibrator for couples dubbed Eva, used in-house 3D printing to create numerous iterations of its device, for a fraction of what it would cost to develop the gadget using more traditional methods, like clay moulding, explained Alexandra Fine, the company’s co-founder and CEO.
"Here, we were able to make 3D renderings and then actually print the tools that would allow us to inject silicone on top of the electronics," Fine said in an interview with CNBC. "That allowed us to really make these small changes between one prototype and the next," she said.
(Source: CNBC)