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Sometimes the uses to which technology can be put just make me go "Wow!" ...

At the recent Hacking at Random conference in Holland, a German handcuff fanatic named Ray demonstrated his prowess by printing the official handcuff key of the Dutch police on a 3D printer. 

This site has more details, photographs and a link to the STL file if you fancy your own official Dutch police handcuff key. And yes, the printed key did work ...!

Posted by Geoff Palmer on September 20, 2009 10:24 PM |

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