The Fuel3D Scanner: Taking the Bull by the Horns
With the release of the Makerbot Digitizer and the wildly successful Kickstarter campaign for the Fuel3D scanner, some folks might wonder what the difference between the two are. So, the Fuel3D people...
View ArticleAM to Enhance GE Stock?
When one of the oldest and most gigantic corporations, with revenues in 2009 greater than the GDP of New Zealand and fingers in every industrial pot from healthcare to drilling for oil, throws its...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Missing a Local Trick?
The blossoming of the 3D printing industry has brought a whole series of businesses into full bloom, one of which is the field of product development and prototyping. But, Silicon Valley, where...
View ArticleRegulating Food & Drugs with 3D Printing
In the news about 3D printing as it relates to the field of medicine, from 3D printed pills to prosthetics, it might not occur that the committees that oversee and approve such applications for human...
View ArticleIntel’s Computers Go 3D with 3D Sensor Technology
Here’s a story that should help you sleep at night: Intel Corporation is developing 3D tools that will be able to track your movements, gauge your emotions, and, of course, capture 3D models. It is...
View ArticleNeitra 3D Pro: Stunning 3D Models from 2D Images
In the 21st Century, it’s become a fact of life that lasers are expensive. Sure, you can buy a laser pointer from the convenience store for your own DIY hologram set-up, but, in order to get yours...
View ArticleTINKR & Monster Cat Team Up to Spawn 3D-Printed Creature
I know what you’re thinking. When’s the next Monster Cat album coming out? Well, Monster Cat fans, since the launch of their first album for free download on The Pirate Bay, the Singaporean indie rock...
View ArticleThe First Commercial Watch Made from 3D Printed Gold
In February, I covered a story about a small watchmaker launching a Kickstarter campaign for his line of 3D-printed watches, which featured timepieces made from gold-plated steel. Hoptroff Ltd. of...
View ArticleSustainable Footwear from 3D-Printed Moulds
To some, 3D printing resembles an organic process, with an object growing onto a build platform the way a seed might burst forth from the ground and develop into a tree. It was this organic growth,...
View ArticleAnticipating the Inside 3D Printing Event – San Jose
I’ve never been to a conference before. Well, maybe I went to a video game expo when I was a kid (where I got to meet Sonic and Tails). But I definitely haven’t been to a 3D printing conference. And...
View ArticleCould Metal Give Japan a 3D Printing Boost?
Have you been keeping up with 3D printing in Japan? Maybe not. According to Reno Tibke at Akihabara News, Japan’s additive manufacturing (AM) sector is rather small compared with other countries, 0.3%...
View ArticleHow Does 3D Printing Affect Climate Change?
With the Earth’s atmosphere already well past stable levels of CO2 , it’s vital that we ensure that all new technologies are as efficient and beneficial to the environment as possible so that we don’t...
View ArticleLionhead Bunny Hops Over Makerbot with Combination 3D Printer and Scanner
The Makerbot Digitizer isn’t the only desktop 3D scanner to enter the marketplace and, in some ways, it’s already lagging behind newer entrants. Last week, we covered the AIO Zeus combination 3D...
View ArticleBrought to You by NASA: More 3D Printing Robospiders In Space!
Just when you thought that NASA had had enough of arachnobots outfitted with 3D printers, they fund another 3D printing robospider project. This time, it’s not for fusing moondust with lasers in order...
View ArticleThe Young and the RepRaps: the iRapid 3D Printer and RepRap.com
Not too long ago, I wrote about the Isis One, a RepRap 3D printer that, when released, suspiciously resembled a Mendel Max 2.0, but wasn’t accompanied by its design specs and didn’t pay tribute to its...
View Article3D Printing Breakthrough Yields Organic and Inorganic Multimaterial Vista...
The Technology Partnership (TTP) has just announced a new development that promises to change the shape of the 3D printing industry: a multi-material 3D printer head called Vista. TTP’s Vista...
View ArticleDesktop 3D Printing Pharmacies: Democratizing Medical Care and What Happens...
When I was in high school, sitting around the dinner table with my friend and his parents, his dad mentioned that he was an anarchist. I don’t remember how it came up, but, because they’re both doctors...
View ArticleThe Kraftwurx Story: Patenting Customized 3D Printing in the Cloud
As Twitter user, @matt_avo, put it: “what’s this patent bullshit?” On August 20, 2013, Chris Norman, CEO of Kraftwurx, was granted the patent for an online customizable 3D printing service causing some...
View ArticleStyleShapes.com: A Community Magazine for 3D-Printed Jewellery
Quickly, the 3D printing web is becoming a vast shopping mall where users can idle by the variety of stores devoted both to the large megastores and the small boutiques. And, while the megastore...
View ArticlevrAse on Kickstarter: Strapping a Phone to Your Face Never Looked So Good
So, you’ve already planned on strapping a big piece of equipment to your face in order to escape a world that would snicker at you for strapping a big piece of equipment to your face, but you’re not...
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