A man named Casey Steffen loves hemoglobin. “It’s such a wonderful, elegant transporter of oxygen,” says Steffen, who owns a company that produces 3-D animations on scientific topics. He had met by chance Michael Gulen; a prototype action figure director at McFarlane Toys. Pushed by Steffens love for hemoglobin Gulen made a mock up of a hemoglobin. Steffen wanted an accurate take apart hemoglobin that could fit in the palm of a hand. With the uses of 3-D printing it was possible. It got outside attention a pharmaceutical company bought 100 of these. It was also said that it could be the next big children's toy also.
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I thought that they hemoglobin toy was cool. I thought that it was interesting that you could take it apart and was not just a paper weight. What I thought was the coolest is that they used a 3-D printer to print out the hemoglobin. I think that it would be a good toy for children to learn about the hemoglobin and get interested in science.
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