Researchers 3D print tissue scaffold to grow human ear from sheep cells
Researchers have fabricated a bioartificial ear that looks and mechanically behaves like a human one.
Aug 5th, 2013
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UPS stores to test in-store 3D printing services
Stratasys Ltd., a leading manufacturer of 3D printers and production systems, announced that it has been selected by The UPS Store to provide its 3D printing systems to The UPS Store as part of a test program that will make it the first national retailer in the U.S. to offer 3D printing service to entrepreneurs, architects, start-ups and other retail customers.
Aug 4th, 2013
Read moreFreeform 3D printer with undo function (w/video)
This project aims to blur the line between processes of design and fabrication in the context of rapid prototyping by increasing the fluidity of the fabrication process through coordinated material and robotic processes.
Aug 2nd, 2013
Read moreMake it yourself and save - a lot - with 3D printers
It may seem like a stretch to envision a 3D printer in every home. However, a Michigan Technological University researcher is predicting that personal manufacturing, like personal computing before it, is about to enter the mainstream in a big way.
Jul 29th, 2013
Read moreWorld's first 3D printed ink cartridges (w/video)
InkFactory created the world's first 3D printed ink cartridges. Watch the video to see how they created and then tested the 3D printed ink cartridges in a real Kodak ESP C110 inkjet printer.
Jul 25th, 2013
Read moreResearchers demonstrate internal tagging technique for 3D-printed objects
The age of 3D printing, when every object so created can be personalized, will increase the need for tags to keep track of everything. Happily, the same 3D printing process used to produce an object can simultaneously generate an internal, invisible tag.
Jul 22nd, 2013
Read moreSweet and beautiful: 3D printed sugar sculptures
The Sugar Lab is a micro-design firm for custom 3D printed sugar. With their background in architecture and their penchant for complex geometry, the husband and wife architectural design team Liz and Kyle von Hasslen are bringing 3D printing technology to the genre of mega-cool cakes.
Jul 18th, 2013
Read moreSilk Pavilion explores the relationship between digital and biological fabrication
The Silk Pavillion is an architectural experiment constructed by MIT's Mediated Matter group; it was '3-D printed' using 6,500 live silkworms.
Jul 17th, 2013
Read moreA 3D printer made from lego bricks (w/video)
The LEGObot 3D printer prints in hot glue and made almost completely out of legos.
Jul 17th, 2013
Read moreDeloitte and 3D Systems form alliance to offer 3D-printing solutions
3D printing has the potential to radically transform the relationship between design, mass customization, and manufacturing across multiple industries. Deloitte and 3D Systems plan to combine efforts to guide business leaders through the full spectrum of solutions and capabilities required to harness the value and potential of this disruptive technology and integrate it into their business models for sustainable competitive advantage.
Jul 12th, 2013
Read moreNASA to test 3D-printed rocket engine injector
NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne of West Palm Beach, Fla., recently finished testing a rocket engine injector made through additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing.
Jul 12th, 2013
Read more3D-printed splint saves infant's life
Half a millennium after Johannes Gutenberg printed the bible, researchers printed a 3D splint that saved the life of an infant born with severe tracheobronchomalacia, a birth defect that causes the airway to collapse.
Jul 11th, 2013
Read moreInvention transforms plain surfaces into low-cost touch screens
Imagine turning a whiteboard, glass window or even a wooden table top into a responsive, touch sensitive surface. A low cost system developed by Nanyang Technological University, based on the principles of vibration and imaging that is able to track the movements of multiple fingers and of objects, can do just that.
Jul 10th, 2013
Read more3D printing of free standing liquid metal microstructures (w/video)
Researchers have developed three-dimensional (3-D) printing technology and techniques to create free-standing structures made of liquid metal at room temperature.
Jul 9th, 2013
Read moreUnderwater propulsion from a 3D printer
Nature inspires creativity: in building a silent propulsion system for boats and water sport devices, researchers used the octopus as their role model. The system can be produced at a low cost and in a single step with a 3D printer.
Jul 1st, 2013
Read morebotObjects' full color 3D desktop printer
botObjects who recently announced the ProDesk3D, the world's first Full Color 3D Desktop Printer, are taking another leap ahead of expectation, opening for early orders as of today.
May 23rd, 2013
Read moreRevolutionary shape-changing phone curls upon a call (w/video)
Researchers at Queen's University's Human Media Lab have developed a new smartphone - called MorePhone - which can morph its shape to give users a silent yet visual cue of an incoming phone call, text message or email.
Apr 29th, 2013
Read moreThe world's first full color 3D desktop printer
botObjects announces the ProDesk3D, the world's first Full Color 3D Desktop Printer.
Apr 29th, 2013
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