L'Artisan Electronique ushers in the era of the virtual pottery wheel (video)

Want to reenact Ghost but don't care for all the messy bits? Let lasers do the work for you. L'Artisan Electronique uses a laser scanner to detect your hand-sculpting gestures, transfers their gently urging instructions over to a computerized 3D model, and — should your production exhibit sufficient creativity or je ne sais quoi — prints it out using a 3D ceramic printer. This is part of a Design by Performance exhibition taking place over in Belgium and is seriously one of the cooler things you're going to come across today — or any other day, for that matter. See it on video after the break.