Frequent jet-setters will be familiar with the benefits of traveling lightly, but one designer is trying to make it possible to travel with no luggage at all, by 3D printing your essentials right on time for when you arrive at your destination.
Prolific designer and creative director at 3D Systems, Janne Kyttanen, drew up clothes, shoes, and accessories all within a bag, which can itself be printed off from one digital blueprint in a single go, with the contents folded inside. The material, which is made from strands of flexible plastic filament, forms a bag, platform shoes and a dress, as well as a bracelet, a watch, driving gloves, and a pair of sunglasses. Some knuckledusters are thrown in for good measure - because who hasn't been annoyed about having their offensive weapons seized at check-in?
Most intriguingly, with this project Kyttanen has found a functional use for 3D printed goods where the final product is perhaps as compelling as the process used to design it.

Although this is a concept for an exhibition running at Rotterdam's Galerie VIVID, it could help hush 3D-printing naysayers with practicality over novelty. Rather than the selling point beginning and ending at the fact these objects are 3D printed, Kyttanen's work has useful applications in the real world, more than merely being interesting conversation pieces.