3D printed silver brooches featuring your favorite landscapes

3D printing comes to custom jewelry: this German company will let you pick your favorite piece of terrain from the planet Earth and they'll make a silver brooch featuing it. I'm holding out for the hyper-detailed version that includes nanoscale clockwork people who meander up and down your tiny silver mountains making ultrasonic bird calls.

The Earth Brooch Silver is an eclectic custom piece of jewelry you can easily design yourself. Just select your desired location. Within a few seconds the place's distinctive landscape turns into a 3d-preview of your custom jewelry.
As soon as you are satisfied with the preview we cast the custom brooch with fascinating detail in 975 silver. The Earth Brooch Silver perfectly makes for a unique silver wedding or other special anniversary gift.

Earth Brooch Silver (via Futurismic)

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Nelson.C

It’s a shame they have to be Earth landscapes. Olympus Mons, Maat Mons or Shangri La on Titan would be neat to have done.
Anonymous

Thanks Jesse for pointing out that we are not German. Whilst we did spend some of our time training in the design ghettos of Germany, fluid forms are designed and produced in Austria.
inphiknit

The “Reader’s Edition” of Manly P. Hall’s Secret Teachings of All Ages is an insult to readers everywhere.

The book is fantastic WITH its illustrations. Taking them out is like castrating a bull five minutes before a bullfight. The images are everything. I have both copies and I plan to use the reader’s edition for kindling this winter.
nervous_jesse

Just to note, these guys are in Austria, not Germany.
apoxia

This is fantastic! The site is easy to use. It’s a tad out of my price range however. Perhaps they should offer other metal options that could be cheaper.
cratermoon

How sad is it that I can identify the example as Mt. Everest on sight?
Anonymous

Is there a discount if you want something from Kansas?
monstrinho_do_biscoito

ooh look, screwed up tinfoil.
- fluidforms
  
  right, screwed up, but with a pretty sophisticed screwdriver ;)
Pipenta

I want Arches, the Devil’s Garden.
fluidforms

Over a long period we had problems turning flat land or towns (e.g. New York City) into Earth Brooches etc. with the Earth concept.

After months of development we finally found a way to handle that and created a new product:

Streets Clock – Turn your hometown into a custom wall clock

cheers,

Andy
Anonymous

Hi Cory!

We are happy to announce that we can also offer earth jewelry for men now! We have launched the Earth Cufflinks Silver yesterday. Smart guys with a good taste create their own cufflinks with our design interfaces ;)

By now we had big troubles to turn flat land and especially cities into custom products…the problem is solved now and the new design interface goes online soon…so take your city maps out of the bookshelf…