Win free 3D printers in BeeVeryCreative's 3D design challenge
BeeVeryCreativehas launched a worldwide 3D modeling challenge: '3D Print World Challenge - 3D modelling awesomeness for everyone, everywhere'.
May 4th, 2014
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Shape-changing smartphone has foldable display (w/video)
Researchers are are unveiling PaperFold, a ground-breaking foldable smartphone. The shape-changing smartphone allows users to fold open up to three flexible electrophoretic displays to provide extra screen real estate when needed.
May 4th, 2014
Read more3D printing a cuddly Teddy Bear (w/video)
Soft and cuddly aren't words used to describe the plastic or metal things typically produced by today's 3D printers. But a new type of printer can turn wool and wool blend yarns into fabric objects that people might actually enjoy touching.
Apr 28th, 2014
Read moreResearchers use 3D printing to produce interactive speakers of any shape (w/video)
If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it just might be a loudspeaker.
Apr 28th, 2014
Read more3D-printed cartilage, made to order
Team uses 3-D printing to produce human cartilage, offering a potent new research tool and advancing treatment opportunities for osteoarthritis and battlefield injuries.
Apr 27th, 2014
Read moreCreating live tumors with a 3D printer
Researchers have devised a method for 3D printing tumors that could soon be taking cancer research out of the petri dish.
Apr 25th, 2014
Read morePrinted electronics prototyping platform Printoo (w/video)
Printoo is an Arduino-compatible platform that brings previously unavailable printed, low power, and flexible electronics technologies directly to anyone interested in developing interactive objects and projects.
Apr 25th, 2014
Read moreBake your own droplet lens
New method makes inexpensive, high-quality lenses by hanging droplets of transparent silicone and curing them in an oven.
Apr 25th, 2014
Read moreEngineers help make advances in virtual artificial heart implantation
Researchers virtually implant the 3-D print of an optimized, patient-specific artificial heart into a pediatric patient.
Apr 23rd, 2014
Read more3D printing trials of unmanned aircraft broaden the possibilities for this emergent technology
Engineers at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre at the University of Sheffield work on prototype of a 3D-printed unmanned aerial vehicle. Low production costs might lead to the printing of 3D unmanned aircraft that could be disposable and sent on one-way flights for delivery, search or reconnaissance purposes.
Apr 8th, 2014
Read moreSave money and the planet: Turn your old milk jugs into 3D printer filament
A new study has shown that making your own plastic 3D printer filament from milk jugs uses less energy - often a lot less - than recycling milk jugs conventionally.
Mar 5th, 2014
Read more3-D printer creates transformative device for heart treatment
Using an inexpensive 3-D printer, biomedical engineers have developed a custom-fitted, implantable device with embedded sensors that could transform treatment and prediction of cardiac disorders.
Feb 25th, 2014
Read moreStudent invention aims to lower costs of organ cell printing
A specialized 3-D printing extruder developed by a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) sophomore and his collaborator could lower the costs of printing cellular structures for use in drug testing.
Feb 20th, 2014
Read moreNew partnership to develop commercial large-scale 3D printing system
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is partnering with Cincinnati Incorporated, a manufacturer of high quality machine tools located in Harrison, Ohio, to develop a large-scale polymer additive manufacturing (3-D printing) system.
Feb 18th, 2014
Read more3D printing infographic: The future is now
Who knew the loud dot matrix printers of the 1980s, complete with their perforated-edge paper, would give way to sleek 3D printers that can create items ranging from weapons to medical equipment? Let's take a look at how 3D printing works and how far the technology has come since its recent inception.
Feb 11th, 2014
Read moreESA is 3D-printing moulds for satellite components
ESO has recently utilised the innovative technology of 3D printing to manufacture moulds for the casting of two new telescope components.
Feb 10th, 2014
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