MakieLab talks 3D-printed dolls, apps and blending digital and physical play ‘We don’t believe that you should have to pinkify something to make it acceptable for girls,’ says Alice Taylor.
For many people, 3D printing is still a thing of science fiction. Less a tangible technology and more a reason to shout “They’re printing 3D guns now? Endtimes! ENDTIMES!”, slap on some tin-foil and run for the nearest bunker.
Yet there are people building businesses out of this, which although innovative, disruptive and all those other words you have to use in these cases, are also proper, down-to-earth businesses.
MakieLab is one of them. Based in London, the company raised its first seed funding in August 2011 to work on prototype 3D-printed dolls – Makies – which customers would be able to design themselves on its website.
That site launched in alpha in May 2012, the company raised $1.4m from early-stage investors in June that year, and now in March 2013 MakieLab has released an iPad app called Makies Doll Factory to help people make and order Makies from their tablet.
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