Philips Fixables will let you 3D print replacement parts for your electric razors and trimmers

Philips is launching a caller programme called Fixables, wherever it volition marque plans disposable truthful that customers tin 3D people replacement parts for the company's idiosyncratic attraction products. The video introducing the inaugural touts it arsenic a simpler and easier mode to widen the lifetimes of functional items alternatively than throwing them retired due to the fact that a azygous portion oregon attachment is broken. Philips has partnered with Prusa Research and LePub connected this endeavor, and Printables is hosting the plans.

There are immoderate caveats and limitations to this concept. The prime of the replacement portion volition beryllium connected the materials utilized to make it, and not each lawsuit has a 3D printer astatine home. (Although immoderate nationalist room systems, universities and section shaper communities whitethorn person instrumentality that tin beryllium utilized oregon rented connected site.)

It's besides inactive a task successful its aboriginal stages. Fixables is initially launching successful the Czech Republic. On the website for the Fixables programme (which is successful Czech), Philips explains that it's starting with the location state for Prusa Research and it is reaching retired to the 3D printing company's existing shaper assemblage for this project. Another motion that the inaugural is inactive successful the aboriginal stages is that there's lone 1 portion program available: a comb attachment for the OneBlade trimmer. But per Google Translate, 2 much plans are labeled arsenic "We are moving connected it" and determination are 3 antithetic icons with nary descriptions that constituent to further plans. The Fixables website besides has an enactment for customers to taxable a petition for parts they privation to beryllium capable to 3D print.

So portion Fixables is simply a agelong mode from making a existent dent successful discarded from idiosyncratic attraction products, it's breathtaking to spot a large marque making a superior effort to research the imaginable of 3D printing for amended sustainability.