3D printing is here. Whether that is a good or bad thing is yet to be determined. Michigan police are using the advanced technology in an unorthodox way.
Police enlisted the help of Michigan State University professor Anil Jain to print 3D makeshift fingers in efforts to unlock the cell phone of a deceased man. The only thing Jain could disclose was that there had been a murder and law enforcement had reason to believe the killer’s identity is contained in the phone. To produce the 3D prints, Jain and his PhD student Sunpreet Arora used the victim’s fingerprints from a prior arrest.
This is impressive and intrusive at the same time. Technology is powerful and it is quite scary to think what could happen if it lands in the wrong hands.