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For more than 30 years, Gibbs has advised on and developed product and service marketing for many businesses and he has consulted, lectured, and authored numerous articles and books.

Bacony goodness + math + 3D printing = an inedible endless Bacon Möbius strip

It's not for human consumption but is it art?

If you take a strip of bacon and twist one end through 180 degrees then join the two ends you get a piece of bacon with only one side, a Bacon Möbius strip. Cool. But if you want such a thing to adorn your desk (and who wouldn't?) then being made of real bacon would be, to say the least, a bad idea. So, to memorialize this mathematical and culinary wonder, why not print a look-alike on a 3D printer? Why not indeed?

This exactly is what a designer with the handle "joabaldwin" created using the Shapeways 3D printing service.

Need one for your desk? It's 3.346" w x 3.024" d x 1.399" h (the precision is awesome) and it's just $19 ...

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Mark Gibbs is an author, journalist, and man of mystery. For more than 30 years, Gibbs has waded through the swamps of the computer industry.