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Dan Yeffet, his idea for a lampshade with the unmistakable pattern of a fingerprint, something that, when shared, is closely associated with the loss of privacy-in this case the designer's own. He stretched his print around a sphere, its unique swirls bec

oming channels through which light would shine. Yeffet says he prefers to call rapid prototyping "rapid manufacturing," a distinction that helps explain his fascination with MGX's technology. "This morphology can't be recreated by any other technique if w

e want to manipulate it into a product, rather than an art object," he says.For product information please contact the manufacturer.