3D printing has significant potential benefits for healthcare such as reducing surgery costs and times by printing organs, but it also enables black market organ trafficking by making organs easier to produce and sell illegally. It raises ethical issues around regulating prices and whether artificial organs go against some individuals' religious beliefs. 3D printing also enables new applications like customized food printing and fashion design, but it increases risks of copyright infringement, lower manufacturing jobs, and unhealthy emissions. The technology could aid terrorists by enabling untraceable gun parts or be adopted by militaries to cut weapon costs, though reliability may be reduced; it also enables drone and prosthetic printing for soldiers. Counterfeiting is a growing concern as designs are easily available and authenticating prints is difficult
3. Healthcare has been significantly changed by 3-D
printing
Cuts time of surgeries
Allows printing of organs
livers
hearts
etc...
Reduces surgery costs
Saves thousands of lives
May generate $4 billion dollars for the healthcare industry
inn America by 2018
4. Black Market Trading
Organ trafficking accounts for 10% of
70,000 kidney transplants
China, India, Pakistan, and many other
countries thrive off this black market
China will execute prisoners and take
their organs to sell
Can anyone print human organs and
sell them?
5. Average paid by Kidney
Buyer$150,000
Average paid to Seller of
Kidney$5,000
Kidney broker in the
Philippines$1,000 to $1,500
Kidney broker in
Yemen$60,000
Kidney buyer in
China$47,500
Kidney buyer in
Egypt$20,000
Kidney buyer in
Israel$125,000 to $135,000
Kidney buyer in
Moldova$100,000 to
$250,000
Kidney buyer in
Singapore$300,000
Kidney buyer in South
Africa$200,000
Kidney buyer in
Thailand$10,000
Kidney buyer in United
States$120,000
Kidney buyers in Saudi
Arabia$16,000
Kidney seller in
Bangladesh$2,500
Kidney seller in
China$15,000
Kidney seller in Costa
Rica$20,000
Kidney seller in
Egypt$2,000
Kidney seller in India$1,000
Kidney seller in
Israel$10,000
Kidney seller in Kenya$650
Kidney seller in
Moldova$2,500 to $3,000
Kidney seller in
Pakistan$10,000
Kidney seller in Peru$5,000
Kidney seller in
Romania$2,700
Kidney seller in
Thailand$3,000 to $5,000
Kidney seller in the
Philippines$2,000 to
$10,000
Kidney seller in
Turkey$10,000
Kidney seller in
Ukraine$200,000
Kidney seller in
Vietnam$2,410
Kidney seller in
Yemen$5,000
Kidney Traffickers in
Turkey$10,000 profit
Kidney Transplant
Operation – China$15,200
Kidney Transplant
Operation – Europe$32,000
Liver buyer in
China$21,900
Liver seller in China$3,660
Lung seller in
EuropeAsking price of
$312,650
6. Artifical organs in human bodies
Doctors playing God
goes against religious morals of soem individuals
Regulating prices of healthcare based on which
organ products
Who will pay for 3-D printers?
tax payers
private funding?
Lack of legal compliance for regulating 3-D
printing
Other Issues....
7. 3D Food Printing
How 3D Food Printers Work
Simply stated, you get what you put in. Food can be broken down
into three main components: protein, carbohydrates, and fats.
Advantages :
• Customization
Custom Nutrition
Food Design
Special Dietary Needs
• Complexity
• Tool-less
• Sustainable / Environmentally
Friendly
8. Challenges and barriers to
overcome
Regulation
Food safety/shelf life
Ingredient limitations
Taste
9. Printing Fashion
What?
Clothes, Jewelry, Shoes, undergarments
The Good +
1. Consumer independence/customization
2. Fast and Efficient for Designers, companies,
and Consumers
3. Decreased Costs
4. Reduced need of warehousing
10. Printing Fashion
The Bad -
1. Copyright issues
2. Decrease in manufacturing Jobs
3. Unhealthy Air emissions
11. 3D printing in Terrorism
3D printers can be used to create pieces for
guns that can`t be traced by metal detectors
and other search procedures.
This allows terrorist to sneak by weapons into
airports or other events or places to launch
another attack.
This is a big concern for the war on terrorism.
This will cause more lock down on security
measures in the future.
12. US military using 3D printing for
weapons
The Military can use 3D printing the same as
Terrorist to cut the cost on guns used in the
military
This allows them to use cheaper resources in
weapons and other useful accessories.
A down side to using 3D printing is that weapons
can be less reliable and less powerful
This can cause the Military to decide not to use this
technology for weapons or accessories they rely on
the most.
13. Other Military Uses of 3D Printing
The Military can Use this technology
for prosthetics for injured soliders.
They are looking to use 3D printers
for MRE`s for soldiers based on a
device that measures their height
weight and nutrition intake so the
printer can create a meal that fits
the needs of each soldier.
Military wants to create swarms of
drones for military use
14. 3D printing of drones
3D printers can be used to print parts and pieces
for drones
This makes using drones cheaper
This could cause the military to use more drones
during warfare or covert ops missions to scope out
best way to go about the mission.
All you need for the drone is a mother board and a
control center so all of the pieces work.
People can also print their own drones with the
proper software for the pieces of the drone and
able to build it.
15. 3D Printing & Counterfeiting
Expect it to cost up to $100 billion by 2018
Numerous CAD designs online
3D printing can be purchased by any hobbyist
Most prices are less than $3,000
16. 3D Printing & Counterfeiting
Authenticity becomes very difficult to verify
Intellectual rights violated
Chemical fingerprints are not visible and need
to be analyzed by a lab
Without verification enforcement is very
difficult to enforce
Consumer deception