Sujet du Brevet 2015 d'anglais de Pondichéry

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YOU CAN PRINT YOUR BODY

Supermarket chain Asda is offering customers the chance to be scanned and turned into 1

3D printed figurine, after beginning trials of the service at their York store in northern

England. Having your whole body scanned takes between 2-3 minutes, with a small 2

handheldmachinerecordingimagesataspeedofroughly 15framespersecond.

Asda’s Head of Personalisation, Phil Stout, said the machine reads colour as well as geometry.

“The scan is that sophisticated that it picks up details such as belt buckles, shoe detail, wedding rings and all of the detail of the colour.”

After the scan, the images are processed by a computer and then sent to be printed with 10 coloured ceramic fluid, with each figure taking around 8 hours to produce.

Scanning slots were fully booked on the first trial days – with some customers travelling miles to get one. But even with the short trial, Stout said its uses were already becoming clear.

“A gentleman came in and his wife is in a care home, so he doesn’t get to see her that

15 often. He wanted to do a scan to give her as a present, so I thought that was very 3

touching .”

3D printing is increasingly used in the industrial arena . But Britain’s second-biggest

retailer believes it’s the first supermarket to offer this service on a large scale and

relatively cheaply too, at 40 pounds per figure. Asda’s Retail Director Mark Ibbotson said 20 seeing the technology pioneered5 in the U.S by Walmart opened his eyes to the

possibilities the technology could bring.

“So, in February, I visited the Walmart head office in Bentonville, Arkansas and saw 3D printing and some of the products, some of the jewellery, phone cases, several different things and was really thrilled by it. I mean, the applications were so numerous.”

Adapted from http://www.newsinlevels.com/products/you-can-print-your-body-level-3/ 

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