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Week. >> we can make the model the same texture, essentially, as the actual heart, and a surgeon can practice suturing, cutting on the model before doing the actual surgery. >> dr. kevin cleary is talking about the latest in medical technology using 3-d printers to create models of hearts and other organs to help surgeons treat their patients. cleary is lead bioengineer at children's medical center. he says this is a marriage of technology and medicine. >> a complex case would be a child who was born with perhaps multiple heart defects or unusual anatomy where the 3-d model would be useful to ...

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With the new year comes an historic new law. recreational pot is going on sale in colorado stores but the demand could be so high that pot sellers worry they might run out after the first day. cnn's casey wian is in colorado with the latest. casey? >> reporter: dana, i'm at the 3-d cannabis center in denver, where in less than 18 hours, retail sales of recreational marijuana will begin. even though it's just a few hours away from now, there's still a lot of work to do. you can see what's happening here. these employees are actually putting what are known as rfid tags on each of these plants. t...

Face. >> the way i'm using code here is a lot of how a sketch artist would use a pencil. >> it takes about eight hours to print at 3-d at nyu's advanced media studio. then the excess powder is removed to are veal the disembodied face from a strangers dna. but there are limitations. length after person's nose or shape of his or her face cannot be determined. >> faces have a general likeness. that might be a family resemblance. right now, i can't determine age. all my masks are aged between 20 and 40. >> duey hagboard started the project called stranger visions after creating herself portrait tw...

Plane. >> to pull it off, drager, along with producer jan barons and post production consultant, michael viksu, combined three different planes. first, a remote controlled model airplane. to make the wing of the remote control plane disappear, they painted it out, frame by frame, replacing it with the blue from the sky. the detailed 3-d aircraft was created with a computer and inserted into footage shot on location at a hamburg airfield. it's the 3-d version of the plane that tumbles to the earth and pulls up for a landing, just in time. >> i think the biggest challenge for the landing was to ...