Organovo Licenses Mini Kidneys for Bioprinting
By Michael Molitch-Hou Though Organovo produced 3D printed kidney cells earlier this year, last week, Professor Melissa Little‘s research team at the University of Queensland (UQ)’s Institute for...
View ArticleNinjaTek & taulman3D Team Up to Take on 3D Printing Materials Market
By Michael Molitch-Hou The materials market for 3D printing is set to boom, surpassing $1 billion in global turnover by 2019. As new materials are developed and discovered, a number of players setting...
View ArticleGhosts of Pirate3D Haunt Seas of Kickstarter with Grave Messages of Sunken...
By Michael Molitch-Hou As Odysseus approached the Sirenum scopuli islands, his crew strapped him to the mast while the beeswax in their ears prevented them from hearing the song of the Sirens, lest the...
View ArticleMetalFAB1 Smart Metal 3D Printer to Make World Debut at formnext
By Michael Molitch-Hou Like a young debutante, finally throwing her cotillion in the ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria, the MetalFAB1 3D printer from Additive Industries will be making its world premier...
View ArticleProject Runway’s 3D Printed Looks Available at Cubify
By Michael Molitch-Hou It’s been almost two years since Justin LeBlanc’s 3D printed wares graced the catwalk on Lifetime’s hit series, Project Runway. Since then, a countless number of designers have...
View ArticleConstruction of World’s 1st 3D Printed Bridge Begins in Amsterdam
By Michael Molitch-Hou In Amsterdam, today, Dutch 3D printing firm MX3D cut the ribbon on its project to 3D print a steel bridge across one of the city’s famous canals using two modified, multi-axis...
View ArticleFree 3D Printable of the Week: Jupiter
By Michael Molitch-Hou For those who don’t know, Lord Jupiter is currently in my House of Finance, where it will soon be joined by Mars on October 17th, meaning big things for me ;). So, for all of...
View ArticleRed Cross Hosts $50K Makeathon to Aid People with Disabilities Worldwide
By Michael Molitch-Hou While an increasing number of organizations and individuals are popping up to aid those with disabilities in obtaining low-cost assistive devices, there really can never be too...
View ArticleSketchfab for Museums Boosts Cultural Preservation with 3D Scanning
By Michael Molitch-Hou Today, 3D modeling community Sketchfab has taken a small step to better enable the preservation and sharing of cultural artifacts with the launch of Sketchfab for Museums and...
View ArticleMakePrintable Takes on Big Names with Universal 3D Print Prep Software
By Michael Molitch-Hou Two of the giants in the 3D printing software space, with tools designed specifically for 3D printing prep, are Belgium’s Materialise and Autodesk, augmented greatly by its...
View ArticleMultimaterial Electronics 3D Printer Showcases ChemCubed’s Materials Expertise
By Michael Molitch-Hou ChemCubed had exhibited at 3D Print Week New York, but, without a printer present, I had a hard time having a palpable understanding for what they do. As a materials company,...
View ArticleEvolving with the Industry: Live at Inside 3D Printing Santa Clara
By Michael Molitch-Hou It’s been two years since my first Inside 3D Printing event, which took place in San Jose, California just a couple of weeks before my wedding. Now, two years later, I returned...
View ArticleSamsClub.com Now Carrying XYZprinting 3D Printers
By Michael Molitch-Hou XYZprinting has been continuously expanding their retail network, as they begin outselling many competitors in the US, so that, now, sites like Staples.com and Walmart.com carry...
View ArticleMicrosoft Explores Multi-Person Mixed Reality
By Michael Molitch-Hou As attendees of Inside 3D Printing come away from the Virtual Reality Summit, they will, hopefully, also come away with a new found appreciation of VR, AR, and mixed reality....
View ArticleMagic Leap to Build “Millions” of Its Mixed Reality Devices
By Michael Molitch-Hou News is aflutter about Magic Leap, a Florida-based startup that is developing a mixed reality device after receiving half a million dollars in funding from investors that include...
View ArticleFree 3D Printable of the Week: #NEWPALMYRA
By Michael Molitch-Hou Though it is now agreed that there is no single cradle from which human societies formed, the Middle East has often been referred to as the cradle of civilization for the early...
View ArticleCreoPop 3D Printing Pen Lands in 1,000 Best Buy Stores
By Michael Molitch-Hou The CreoPop Pen has made a name for itself with its distinct ability to 3D print using UV LED diodes, rather than by melting plastic, like the abundant number of FFF pens on the...
View Article3D Systems Hit with $11M Arbitration Decision
By Michael Molitch-Hou The 3D printing industry is not looking great for the largest 3D printer manufacturers. As I’m reminded by readers regularly, smaller companies are doing quite well, with...
View ArticleRevotek Unveils First Commercial Blood Vessel Bioprinter
By Michael Molitch-Hou There may be another machine to add to our list of top 10 bioprinters on the market, or in development. And this one could prove to be more important than all of the rest, as...
View ArticleORNL Licenses Big, Fast 3D Printing Tech to Strangpresse LLC
By Michael Molitch-Hou The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has significantly demonstrated what large-scale, ultra-fast 3D printing is capable of, aiding in the...
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