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Finding Genius Podcast

Martin Stevens of it is 3d dot com – 3D printing education, printers, scanners and more

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

It Is 3D dot com is not only a provider of 3D printers and scanners, they are first and foremost an education company that provides education on 3D printing to the most important group of people in the world – our children and young people.
Currently in Europe and Asia, but looking to expand to the United States and South America, It Is 3D's noble mission is to educate and showcase the amazing possibilities, jobs and benefits of 3D printing, from printing of organs, to efficient motors, parts, and other manufactured items, to production of out of date legacy products still in use.
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0:00.0

Welcome to Almost Here, Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

0:08.0

Future Technologies is poised to transform our lives for better or worse for the focus of this podcast.

0:13.8

Almost here means these technologies are now here and

0:17.0

starting to be used.

0:18.4

We're just around the corner.

0:20.0

For Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

0:27.0

This is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast, almost here, around the corner future technology and today I'm here

0:36.1

with Martin Stevens the CEO of it is 3D.com ITIS 3D.com how you doing Martin How you do in Martin?

0:45.0

Good. Thank you very much Richard.

0:47.0

Yeah, I'm glad you're here.

0:50.0

Can you tell listeners briefly what it is 3D does? It looks like you guys do a bunch of different things in the 3D printing world?

1:00.0

It is 3D Special in 3D technologies rather than just 3D printing.

1:07.0

We do a lot of work with schools and it is clear to us in the educational context and probably every other context as well that if

1:16.6

you don't know how to design in 3D, 3D printers are totally useless.

1:21.2

The only thing you can then do is download pre-made designs from the internet.

1:26.2

So although we don't sell anything to do with 3D design, our focus is trying to get particularly youngsters and of course

1:37.4

their teachers and heads of schools to think about the need for teaching kids 3D design in order that they can make use of the fabulous opportunities that 3D printing and 3D scanning provide.

1:52.0

Yeah, you could say you a brief story.

1:55.0

I forget the name of the pen, but I saw on your website there's a 3D pen that you push the button

2:01.0

and the extrudes plastic.

2:02.0

Well, I got that for my kids, you know, they're saying... you push the button and the extrids plastic.

2:02.9

Well I got that for my kids, you know, they're 7, 9, and 11.

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