3D-Printing News – Latest Headlines

3D printing market is booming as the buzz catches on

What's catching the attention of many industry analysts is the potential size of the market. In a recent survey conducted by a leading industry observer, several experts were asked to speculate on how many of the potential users of the technology have already adopted it. The answers ranged from 1% to 8%. This suggests there is still an extremely large market opportunity ahead.

August 28, 2013 Read more

Wireless devices go battery-free with new communication technique (w/video)

Engineers have created a new wireless communication system that allows devices to interact with each other without relying on batteries or wires for power. The technology could enable a network of devices and sensors to communicate with no power source or human attention needed.

August 13, 2013 Read more

Researchers 'grow' new cartilage with help of 3D printer

A partnership between scientists at the University of Wollongong and St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne has led to a breakthrough in tissue engineering, with researchers growing cartilage from stem cells to treat cancers, osteoarthritis and traumatic injury.

August 8, 2013 Read more

3D printing live event at Printed Electronics USA 2013

This event introduces the 3D Printing community to the Printed Electronics world.

August 6, 2013 Read more

3D printing technology goes from clinic to catwalk

Dutch designer Iris van Herpen has unveiled a new piece at the Paris Fashion Week for Haute Couture created using 3D printing technology from Belgian company Materialise.

August 5, 2013 Read more

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.

August 5, 2013 Read more

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.

August 4, 2013 Read more

Freeform 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.

August 2, 2013 Read more

Make 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.

July 29, 2013 Read more

World'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.

July 25, 2013 Read more

Researchers 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.

July 22, 2013 Read more

Sweet 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.

July 18, 2013 Read more

Silk 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.

July 17, 2013 Read more

A 3D printer made from lego bricks (w/video)

The LEGObot 3D printer prints in hot glue and made almost completely out of legos.

July 17, 2013 Read more

Deloitte 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.

July 12, 2013 Read more

NASA 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.

July 12, 2013 Read more

3D-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.

July 11, 2013 Read more

Invention 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.

July 10, 2013 Read more