FDA Clears OPM’s 3D Printed Spinal Implants
By Michael Molitch-Hou Oxford Performance Materials was the first company to receive FDA approval for a polymer implant for their unique skull implants. While the company’s biocompatible materials...
View ArticleZVerse Gains Ground with 3D Systems Partnership & $3.5 M Funding
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D Systems knows a good business when it sees it. In the past, it might have flat-out acquired it, but acquisitions may not make the best financial sense at the moment. So, 3D...
View ArticleSolidscape and Kangshuo Group Open Largest 3D Printing Service in China
By Michael Molitch-Hou Two months back, we reported on a deal between Stratasys subsidiary Solidscape and Kangshuo Group Co. Ltd to create the largest 3D printing service bureau in China. Today, that...
View ArticleCEO Jennifer Lewis on the Future of Electronics 3D Printing & Voxel8’s Huge...
By Michael Molitch-Hou This year, one startup shook the industry with the potential to push 3D printing to the next level and it wasn’t Carbon3D. Though Carbon3D’s ultra-fast CLIP technology has huge...
View ArticleMarketplace for 3D Printing & Makers Pops Up at Doyourshelf.com
By Michael Molitch-Hou There has been at least one attempt to launch an Etsy-style site focused on DIY and Maker goods, but it has yet to materialize to the extent that Etsy has. Another contender has...
View ArticleFree 3D Printable of the Week: Hillary Clinton Action Figure
By Michael Molitch-Hou The US Primaries are coming up, which means that all of the candidates are under the spotlight. Though there’s already a 3D printable version of the current Commander in Chief,...
View Article3D Printed MOOD Glasses Provide Trippy Visuals without the Trip
By Michael Molitch-Hou Hungarian artist Bence Agoston’s MOOD specs probably won’t help you trip so hard you see the ultimate nature of the Universe, but they will replicate some of the visuals you...
View ArticleREALvision Software Now Includes MyMiniFactory’s Complete 3D Model Library
By Michael Molitch-Hou Danish R&D company Create it REAL is an interesting one, working on a variety of products ranging from white label manufacturing of 3D printers to developing 3D printer...
View ArticleL-Cheapo Converts 3D Printers into Laser Cutters for Cheapo
By Michael Molitch-Hou Founded earlier this year by January 2015 by “bright Russian entrepreneur George I Fomitchev and the brilliant electrical engineer, NASA contractor Matteo Borri”, Endurance is in...
View ArticleUS to Open Large-Scale Metal 3D Printing Facility with Norsk Titanium
By Michael Molitch-Hou There are a number of 3D printing facilities across the US, including Stratasys’ Direct Manufacturing and GE’s Alabama plant, dedicated to their 3D printed LEAP fuel nozzles....
View ArticleBranch Technology is 3D Printing the Future of Construction One Wall at a Time
By Michael Molitch-Hou “Did you know,” Platt Boyd asks me, “that the way we construct buildings hasn’t really changed for 10,000 years? The oldest extant structures are about 10,000 years old and those...
View ArticleMichigan Tech Opens Up Reusable Substrates for Metal 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou In 2013, the lab of Prof. Joshua Pearce at Michigan Tech had designed an open source metal 3D printer that could be assembled for less than $2,000. The lab is still working hard...
View ArticlePanasonic Launches 3D Printing Photo Lab with 120 Lumix Cameras
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D portraiture is one of the most immediately consumer-ready 3D printing products available, but it’s been slow to catch on with big name businesses, though Disney/Marvel has...
View ArticleAfinia Unveils ES360 Tabletop 3D Scanner
By Michael Molitch-Hou As their new H800 3D printer gets prepped for shipping to pre-order customers, Afinia has revealed another bit of news: the release of a tabletop 3D scanner. The ES360 desktop...
View ArticleOccipital Raises $13M for 3D Scanning & Spatial Computing
By Michael Molitch-Hou Occipital, Inc. has been making a stir since the launch of their low-cost 3D scanner on Kickstarter, eventually seeing the licensing of their iPad/iPhone-based Structure Sensor...
View Article3D Hubs Celebrates 20K 3D Print Hubs with #WeAre20K Giveaway
By Michael Molitch-Hou It’s hard to imagine that the 3D Hubs community was just a speck in its founders eyes two and a half years ago and, now, the distributed manufacturing network is growing at an...
View Article3dChef Jumps onto 3D Hubs to Offer Sugar 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou Julian Sing, aka 3dChef, runs, as far as I know, the only independent firm for 3D printing sugar objects. As a product designer, Maker, and pastry chef, Julian was able to...
View Article3D Printing Firm Alphaform AG Files for Bankruptcy
By Michael Molitch-Hou As 3D printing hype was boosting industry stocks to obscene levels last year, among those cited as potentially worthy investments by analysts was German rapid prototyping company...
View Article3D Printed Guitarmaker Leads Students in Building Mobile Concrete 3D Printer
By Michael Molitch-Hou While Prof. Olaf Diegel is now known as the father of 3D printed instruments, with his complete ensemble of guitars, keyboard, and drums performing regularly at expos worldwide....
View ArticleChoc Creator 2.0 Plus Kicks Off 2nd Generation Chocolate 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou Back in 2011, researchers at the University of Exeter made headlines with a lab-made chocolate printer. This machine was eventually spun out of the lab into a full-blown company...
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