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Smart thermostats like the Nest–use sensors, real-time weather forecasts
                 and the actual activity in your home during the day to reduce your monthly
                 energy usage by up to 30%. Keeping you more comfortable and offering to
                 save you money on your utility bills.
                 IoT is here to stay and expand. Many new utilities with rich functionality
                 can be built which will revolutionize our lives. Think of driverless cars and
                 an automatically managed traffic system using IoT sensors, which result
                                                                                                Smart thermostats
                 in zero accidents. Truly, in the world of IoT, only our imagination is our
                 ultimate limit.

                     3D PRINTING

                 3D Printing or 3-Dimensional Printing is a technology which was first
                 developed at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the 1980’s.
                 It is the process of making a physical object from a three-dimensional
                 physical model. In this technology, we use the 3D digital data on the
                 computer to build 3D objects by adding layers of material which could
                 be  polymers,  metals,  concrete  or  even  plant  and  human  tissue.  3D
                                                                                            3D Printing technology
                 Printing helps to bridge the gap between ideas and images on a page
                 or screen and the creation of those ideas/images in the physical 3-Dimensional world.
                 The major applications of 3D Printing are:
                        Education: It is widely used in the education sector. It prepares the
                        students for their future by allowing them to create prototypes without
                        tooling and extensive work. It helps the students to design and produce
                        models they can hold and feel.
                                              Rapid Prototyping (RP) Method: It is  used
                                              to create models to quickly test a new product   3D Printing in Education
                                              before mass production. 3D Printing can be termed as a RP method.


                   3D Prototype
                        Medicine: In the last several years, 3D Printing applications have increased
                        manifold in the world of medicine. They range from bioprinting—where
                        biological materials like  cells  and growth  factors are fused to create
                        tissue-like  structures  replicating  their  natural  equivalents—to  medical
                        devices like prosthetics.                                                3D Printed equipments

                                                Construction: It is widely used in the construction industry; model houses
                                              can be built in a day using 3D Printing.



                 3D Model for house
                         Art and Jewelry: The use of 3D Printing has led the
                        jewelry  makers  to  experiment  with  non-traditional
                        designs which were not possible with the traditional
                        methods of jewelry making.
                                                                                          3D Printed Jewelry




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