{"id":1930,"date":"2012-06-07T11:42:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T10:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2012-06-07T11:42:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T10:42:19","slug":"makieworld-raises-1-4m-funding-for-digital-to-physical-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/07\/makieworld-raises-1-4m-funding-for-digital-to-physical-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"MakieWorld raises $1.4m funding for digital-to-physical toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/europe\/makie-future-doll-toy-funding\/\">http:\/\/gigaom.com\/europe\/makie-future-doll-toy-funding\/<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re making toys using game data and 3D printing,\u201d explains Alice Taylor, Makielab co-founder and CEO. \u201cWe call ourselves a smart toy company, and for us that means there\u2019s a digital side to it by default.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company slogan is \u201cthe action doll you design\u201d, and here\u2019s the concept in a nutshell: you hit the Makie website and create your own avatar, choosing from a range of shapes, sizes, features and outfits \u2014 the kind of thing that\u2019s recognizable from all kinds of MMOs, virtual worlds and kids\u2019 games. But then comes the magic: press a button and you get your digital figure turned into the real thing, produced as a one-off in bone-white plastic using cutting edge manufacturing techniques.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congrats!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/gigaom.com\/europe\/makie-future-doll-toy-funding\/ \u201cWe\u2019re making toys using game data and 3D printing,\u201d explains Alice Taylor, Makielab co-founder and CEO. \u201cWe call ourselves a smart toy company, and for us that means there\u2019s a digital side to it by default.\u201d The company slogan is \u201cthe action doll you design\u201d, and here\u2019s the concept in a nutshell: you hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}