Ever wanted to up your pottery skills without getting your hands dirty? I know, that’s not the kind of question the average person asks themselves under normal circumstances; but I’m sure your thinking about it now right?

With the use of 3D printing, this art form has now been merged with the digital world with the use of 3D printing technology and hand gesture recognition. How this will work is 3D scanning cameras track your hand movements and alter the shape of the object being formed as you move your hands, one can say it is exactly the same as pottery except it’s now completely digital and involves far less clay and dirty fingernails full of stubborn, hardened clay.

This technology has been developed by a Belgian company named Unflod, the designer responsible for the 3D scanner is a gentleman by the name of Tim Knapen. Now here’s the part that got me; the technology actually allows for the 3D printer to convert ceramic powder into solid forms by means of a cooling technique (how cool isn’t that?) Knapen’s 3D scanner then transfers your hand movements into the software shaping your model as you move your hands.

The possible uses for this kind of technology are endless; we can confidently say that yet another gadget has come out of seemingly nowhere to question what we once thought wasn’t possible.