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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
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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
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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 moreThe 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
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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
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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
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The LEGObot 3D printer prints in hot glue and made almost completely out of legos.
Jul 17th, 2013
Read more3D 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 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 moreHalf 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
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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 moreResearchers 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
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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 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
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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
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botObjects announces the ProDesk3D, the world's first Full Color 3D Desktop Printer.
Apr 29th, 2013
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The Low Fi Hi Tech headphones is a research Project to find out a way to create a fully functional pair of audio headphones without any manufactured part, this means all the parts of this headset are raw materials, such as wire, tape, solder, magnets and of course 3D printed parts.
Apr 16th, 2013
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Track your skiing, speed, altitude, slopes and lift kilometres with a nifty phone app from an ESA business incubation start-up.
Apr 10th, 2013
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