30 Photos Showing How Time Changes Things

You have to agree that some things only get better when they’re worn in – like your favorite pair of shoes or your armchair. And in some cases, as things wear down, they reveal their interesting hidden sides that we normally wouldn’t get to see.

From statues being polished from hundreds of people rubbing them to floors wearing through from being stepped on so much, see the most amazing pictures showing how time wears things down in the gallery below! And if that’s not enough, check out more pictures of things that wore down with time here .

#1 My Brother And I Each Received Identical Teddy Bears When We Were Born. I Loved Mine Just A Bit More…

#2 Moving Around Dumbells With My Foot Wore My Shoes Into Showing My Foots Skeletal Pattern

#3 The Glass Globe Of This Light Focused The Sunlight Enough To Burn The Suns Path In The Grass

#4 Good Boy Spotted In Prague

#5 The Cover Of George Orwell’s, “1984,” Becomes Less Censored With Wear

#6 This Dog’s Favorite Spot

#7 The Way The Sun Has Weathered This Sign So It Looks Like Its Heavy Metal Style

#8 Pigment Stripped From Leaf Because It Spent So Much Time In A Pool

#9 My Girlfriend’s Cat Paces Using The Same Steps Each Day

#10 The Flooring In The Waiting Area At This Pizzeria Is So Worn You Can See The Old Floor

#11 The Wire Has Worn Into This Rock After Years Of Hikers Walking Over It

#12 This Key After 10 Years Of Entering Orders At My Grandmothers Shop

#13 Cobb’s Mat From Eager Tapping When He Hears The Car Pull Up

#14 All The Letters On My Gf’s Lotion Bottle Started Falling Off

#15 The Comparison Of Right Handed And Left Handed People At My High School

#16 Fake Door At IKEA

#17 These Knives At My Work Have Been Used So Much They’re Almost Gone

#18 My Dad Has Had The Same Wallet For So Long His Driver’s License Photo Is Imprinted On The Plastic

#19 Our Local Barber Has Been In Business For As Long As I Can Remember. The Metal Floor Is Worn Down Where He Walks Round The Only Chair Each Day

#20 14 Years Of Scratches

#21 My Mom Bought The Same Stuffed Animal For My Sister In Case She Lost It. After 16 Years, We Found All Four Of Them

#22 I’ve Worn Each Hole In This Belt

#23 My Sheaffer Reminder Ballpoint Pen. This Has Been In My Pocket Every Weekday For The Last 15 Years. It Used To Belong To My Grand-Father. I Know He Used It Because The Brass Was Already Starting To Wear Through When I Got It. They Still Make The Refills For It

#24 The Wear Indicators On My Tires Show A Percentage Representative Of The Amount Of Tread Left.

#25 Store Doorbell

#26 My Grandma’s Carpet After Moving Her Bed For The First Time In 60 Years

#27 Fax Machine/Scanner Used So Heavily, The Paper Has Cut The Plastic Over Time

#28 Staples From Posters After Four Decades

#29 This Wall Broke Exposing Years Of Layers Of Paint

#30 Stairs Built In 1829 vs. 2005

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30 Coolest Things People 3D Printed

Here’s an interesting fact you probably did not know – 3D printing is actually almost 40 years old! The first prototype 3D printer was invented all the way back in the 80s and as technology advanced and the prices of printers dropped, they started becoming available to more and more people. That led to users getting creative with this new technology, coming up with unique and ingenious creations that wouldn’t be possible to create using conventional methods.

Casts, rims and even full-size houses – check out the most interesting things people created using 3D printers in the gallery below!

#1 Toucan With A Reconstructed Beak Done Throughout 3D Printing

#2 See-Through Prosthetics 3D-Printed From Titanium

#3 3D-Printed Classical Paintings That Let The Blind “See” Famous Art For The First Time

#4 A Prosthetic Arm I Made For A Friend

#5 A Neighbor 3D Printed A Walker For His Crippled Little Buddy

#6 I Came Back To My Apartment To Find That My Roommate 3D Printed A T-Rex Shower Head

#7 My Brother Is In A Wheelchair And Is Starting His First Job At Google Next Week. People Said I Should Make Him The Google Logo, But That’s No Fun So I Made This For His Desk

#8 3D Printed Shell For An Injured Tortoise

#9 3D Printed Doorstop

#10 My Moms 3D Printed Cast. She Can Take A Shower With It!

#11 Chloe’s 3D Printed Walking Assistant

#12 A Friend Nailed Halloween And 3D Printed His Own Face

#13 3D-Printed Plastic Cast That Uses Ultrasound To Heal Broken Bones Faster

#14 Cubone Corgi

#15 Our 3D Print Failed Half Way Through. This Is How We’ve Been Using It

#16 3D Printed Violin

#17 Student In My Country Made Mostly 3D Printed 1:1 Moveable Bb-8 Model As Her Engineer’s Thesis As Final Work Ending Her Studies. She Also Programmed An App Which Let You Control The Robot

#18 As A 16 Year Old Guy With Nosy Parents, This Has By Far Been My Most Useful Print

#19 3D Printed And Painted My Cat

#20 Not Inherited, But 3D Printed

#21 3D-Printed Vases That Give Plastic Bottles A Second Life

#22 Darth Vader Pen Holder

#23 Friend Made A Luggage Tag With Her 3D Printer

#24 My Friend Made This Costume For Dragoncon… With A 3D Printer

#25 3D Printed ‘Game Of Thrones’ Lamp

#26 Proof That Perseverance Pays Off… My Full Iron Man Suit, Printed In Many, Many Pieces On My Tiny Up Mini Over 6 Months

#27 Fully-Articulated 3D Printed Mesh Gown, Worn By Burlesque Icon Dita Von Teese

#28 I 3D Printed My Son’s Brain Using Data From His MRI

#29 3D Printed Rims

#30 This House Was 3D-Printed In Just 24 Hours For Less Than $11k

Aušrys Uptas

One day, this guy just kind of figured - “I spend most of my time on the internet anyway, why not turn it into a profession?” - and he did! Now he not only gets to browse the latest cat videos and fresh memes every day but also shares them with people all over the world, making sure they stay up to date with everything that’s trending on the web. Some things that always pique his interest are old technologies, literature and all sorts of odd vintage goodness. So if you find something that’s too bizarre not to share, make sure to hit him up!