How Will 3D Printed Medical Devices Be Regulated?
By Michael Molitch-HouErik Vollebregt, an Amsterdam-based Life Sciences and IP lawyer and founder of the law firm Axon Lawyers, has reflected at length about the future of the European Union’s medical...
View ArticleFilaflex: Flexible 3D Printer Filament for Your Future Shoes
By Michael Molitch-HouWhy wait for your Marty McFly shoes of the future? You can 3D print your own futuristic shoes now! They may not have self-tying laces, which will probably be overpriced anyway,...
View ArticleDIY BMO 3D Printing Adventures!
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing adventurers! Now is your chance to build your very own BMO. When you’re busy being bored from a lack of romance or action, BMO will light up and make you feel better....
View Article3D Printing Gets its Finger on the Pulse of Thumbprint Scanners
By Michael Molitch-Hou As we move forward into a dystopian future, polluted with mistrust and insecurity, in which we must scan our thumbs at to get access to our refrigerators, new fingerprint...
View Article3D Printer Parts Find New Life as Air Hockey Playing Robot
By Michael Molitch-Hou If you’re a self-hating pessimist, you might love this air hockey playing robot as it will reinforce your defeatism by beating you every time. If you’re a self-actualizing...
View ArticleThe Endless Permutations of Aardvark by Paul Lopes
By Michael Molitch-Hou When you’re a kid, adults get you to sort of wrap your entire identity up in a individual nouns. What’s your favorite color? What’s your favorite food? Your answers to these...
View Article3D Printing Ensnared by dFab Net’s Network for Digital Fabrication
By Michael Molitch-Hou Can’t you feel it? The congealing of the 3D printing industry, as it becomes larger, more diverse, and more complex? As we enter the third industrial revolution and the second...
View ArticleNon-Profit 3D Printables Repository Launches at Midwest RepRap Festival
By Michael Molitch-Hou Last September, we covered a free, public repository for 3D printables called Repables. At the time, the site was in something like a Beta-testing state, with only a handful of...
View ArticleIkea Designer Divines Punk Rock DIY Future with 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou Maybe it started with Ikea. After a generation of Westerners had become accustomed to ordering furniture shipped in from countries in Southeast Asia, a Swedish company came in...
View Article3D Printed Ping-Pong from 3DS Creative Director Janne Kyttanen
By Michael Molitch-Hou The year is 2100 and the Earth, long since made into a Venusian death trap by climate change, is abandoned. You coast the bleakness of outerspace in a minimalist intergalactic...
View ArticleHD^2 3D Printer on Kickstarter Claims to Have Highest FFF Resolution Yet
By Michael Molitch-Hou It seems as though it’s been awhile since a new FFF 3D printer presented itself on Kickstarter. I thought that it had meant that the well of RepRaps had run dry, but, it seems...
View ArticleStaX Fits More than a Container with 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou You know that metal container that you store your – ahem – medicinals in? Well, Craig and Zack on Kickstarter have found a whole bunch of uses for it that you, in your medicinal...
View ArticleDS Invents CAD Car to Prove Power of Connex Multi-Material 3D Printer
By Michael Molitch-Hou The CATIA software division of Dassault Systèmes (DS) wanted to demonstrate its ability to prototype a car with CAD and 3D printing, so, naturally, they invented a car. Though...
View Articleimaterialise 3D Prints its Own Guitar (Parts)
By Michael Molitch-Hou Ooh! No it betta don’t! After 3D Systems made itself known at every convention for the 3D printed guitars of Olaf Diegel, imaterialise has gone and 3D printed their own guitar...
View ArticleThe Divinity of the RepRap 3D Printer Forums
By Michael Molitch-Hou Let’s take a trip back in time, shall we? Not so far back that we witness the dawn of 3D printing, but not so far forward that we witness the mainstream explosion of the...
View Article3D Printing Company Takes to Canada’s Universities
By Michael Molitch-Hou In an attempt to promote 3D printing and additive manufacturing across Canada, rapid prototyping and environmental testing firm Hyphen, a division of Christie Digital Systems...
View ArticleOptomec Patents Multi-head Aerosol Jet 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou Optomec, known for its LENS 3D metal printers and Aerosol Jet Systems, has just been awarded a new U.S. patent that will significantly improve its Aerosol Jet printing...
View Article3D Printing Saves Face in Life Altering Reconstructive Surgery
By Michael Molitch-Hou Adrian Sugar and his team at the maxillofacial unit at Morriston Hospital in Wales have long known that 3D printing would change the field of plastic surgery forever. For the...
View ArticleCzech 3D Printer Signals Eastern European Boom
By Michael Molitch-Hou The Czech Republic is famous for its marionettes, beautifully crafted puppets that surreally act out scenes for tourists on the streets of Prague. In a continuation of that...
View ArticleKai Parthy’s Latest Experimental Filament: LAYCeramic
By Michael Molitch-Hou The inventor of Laywoo-D3, Laybrick, and an increasing number of other filaments, Kai Parthy, has just released his latest invention. The ceramic filament, titled LAYCeramic, is...
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