Stratasys Opens New Israeli Facility to Meet Demand for PolyJet 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou After the Stratasys/Objet merger in 2012, Stratasys Ltd. has been able to bring Objet’s amazing PolyJet 3D printing technology to an even larger number of people, releasing the...
View ArticleProgressive Innovations: Eco-Friendly Earthbag Construction Inspired by 3D...
By Michael Molitch-Hou As 3D printed construction continues to make headlines, with buildings being fabricated quickly from large extruding machines, the material of choice for these projects is...
View Articlevoxeljet Acquires 3D Printing Prop Makers Propshop
By Michael Molitch-Hou After working with the firm for some time, manufacturer of industrial 3D printers voxeljet has acquired Propshop, a UK-based producer of props for the film and entertainment...
View ArticleThe Modular MM1 3D Printer Hits Kickstarter at Full Steam
By Michael Molitch-Hou About two weeks ago, Shane wrote up a post on a new desktop 3D printer with some exciting features called the MM1. Developed by Makermex of Mexico, the MM1 is a modular 3D...
View ArticleFreaky Bez Gets Freaky 3D Printed Bust for Manchester Science Festival
By Michael Molitch-Hou Every year for the past eight years Manchester, England hosts its Manchester Science Festival to proudly pay tribute to the scientific arts, bringing a number of scientists and...
View Articlevan Herpen Brings LHC Magnetism to the World of 3D Printed Fashion
By Michael Molitch-Hou Dutch fasion designer Iris van Herpen has established herself as the pioneer of 3D printed fashion, creating a dress that Time magazine declared as one of the 50 Best Inventions...
View ArticleAdafruit’s 3D Printed Gas Mask for a Dystopian Halloween
By Michael Molitch-Hou Brothers Noe and Pedro Ruiz at Adafruit has got you covered this Halloween with a 3D printed NeoPixel LED Gas Mask. Inspired a bit by Star Wars, Fallout, and Guardians of the...
View ArticleFujikon 3D Prints its Way into the Future of Headphone Design
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing is increasingly being used for quick iterative design, giving designers and engineers the power to think up new ideas and see them manufactured on demand. Hong...
View Article3D Reprint Your Plastic Waste
By Michael Molitch-Hou Wouldn’t it be nice if, instead of piling all of your junk into a couple of bins for the waste management people to take away, you could separate your plastics, paper, metal,...
View ArticleThe ESA to Humanity: 3D Print a Comet to Resolve Your Ontological Uncertainty
By Michael Molitch-Hou While the majority of the world’s population attempts to survive this thing called life, focusing on the pursuit of day-to-day activities, the larger cosmic meaning underlying...
View ArticleHP’s Split Means Greater 3D Printing Focus
By Michael Molitch-Hou After the printer manufacturer has been saying that it will enter the 3D printing market for over a year, Hewlett-Packard has made a big step towards further focusing on the...
View ArticleScientists to Transplant 3D Printed Ears for Children with Ear Deformities
By Michael Molitch-Hou Tonight, the BBC will be airing an exciting special BBC Inside Out London special in which the show’s host, Dr. Ranj Singh, pays a visit to the lab of Professor Alex Selfalian at...
View ArticleNVBots Goes to Fundable to Bring 3D Printing to Low-Income Schools
By Michael Molitch-Hou Recently, I spoke with AJ Perez, the CEO of NVBOTS, manufacturer of “the world’s first fully-automated 3D printer”. Speaking with AJ, I learned about the company’s unique...
View ArticleDiamond Plastics Releases Polypropylene for Laser Sintering 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou Low(er)-cost laser sintering 3D printers are making their way onto the marketplace, so that small businesses can begin 3D printing tough prints the way that Shapeays has been...
View ArticleOnly You Can Prevent 3D Printer Fires
By Michael Molitch-Hou Despite the dangers posed, many desktop 3D printer users leave their machines unattended while lengthy print jobs are being performed. Maker Andrew Maurer, however, knows that...
View ArticleFair Trade Filament for 3D Printing, Here We Come!
By Michael Molitch-Hou Dr. Joshua Pearce’s lab at Michigan Technological University is always at work making strides in 3D printing, ecological sustainability, and reducing poverty. Pearce’s latest...
View ArticleMaterialise Gets a 3D Printed Grip on Industrial Manufacturing
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing service provider and software developer Materialise (NASDAQ:MTLS) has, with its over twenty years of experience, found itself immersed in a huge variety of fields....
View ArticlePocket-Sized 3D Printer to Fit Your Pocket and Budget
By Michael Molitch-Hou Yesterday, we covered the LumiPocket, a pint-sized DLP 3D printer that looks super sleek and, from the looks of it, is actually capable of 3D printing tiny objects. Hopping on...
View ArticleNow You Can 3D Print with Memory Foam
By Michael Molitch-Hou Kai Parthy, inventor of the original Laywoo-D3 and Laybrick filaments, is back with an exciting new material for desktop filament fabricators. An extension of his foam PORO-LAY...
View Articlee-NABLE 3D Printed Prosthetics Further Enabled with YouMagine’s Hand-O-Matic
By Michael Molitch-Hou e-NABLE has made headlines for its efforts in providing custom, low-cost prosthetics to people in need, particularly children born with hand deformities caused by amniotic band...
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