Dice - 3D Printed Metal, Steampunk, Dungeons & Dragons
These Dice represent a lot of cool/geeky things in one place - 3D Printing, RPG's, Geometry and ancient notions of the nature of the universe - so, plenty of stuff for me to talk about.
After my video of the Jebediah Kerman statue a few months ago Shapeways offered to send me some other items from their catalogue if I'd make a video. Obviously this is a cunning ploy to get some advertising of their wares and service, so I was careful to make sure I selected something that would genuinely be worth talking about.
The set I show is the Steampunk Gear Dice Set by Avandius, mine is printed in metal with a Nickel finish, but you can get them in many other materials.
http://www.shapeways.com/model/636461/steampunk-gear-dice-set.html
Also, you can get nice 3d printed version of Kepler's (wrong) model of the solar system
http://www.shapeways.com/model/977916/kepler-s-platonic-solids-model-of-the-solar-system.html
If you're interested in the printing process there's a nice video showing how it's done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20R9nItDmPY