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Amazing Nanoscale 3D Printing
Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have perfected 3D technology using two-photon lithography that can print orders of magnitude faster and smaller than similar devices. The 3D printing process uses a liquid resin, which is hardened at precisely the correct spots by a focused laser beam. The focal point of the laser beam is guided through the resin by movable mirrors and leaves behind a hardened line of solid polymer a few hundred nanometers wide.
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3D Printing's On A Roll, But Still Missing A Beat
It's getting cheaper and easier than ever to use, but one thing still stands in the way of the 3D printer.
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3-D Printed Crime Scenes Are Coming to a Courtroom Near You
There's undeniably something captivating about looking at a crime scene. Similar to watching a train wreck, try walking by a block protected by police tape without doing a double-take. As the gargantuan viewership of shows like CSI or the popularity of P.D. James novels can attest to, people are obviously curious about crime, and possibly even more interested in how it's analyzed.
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Intricate 3D Printed Materials Lighter Than Water and as Strong as Steel
Using precision lasers, a Nanoscribe 3D printer can print models of the Empire State building in a space the width of a human hair...
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3D Printing Aims to Deliver Organs on Demand
A group at the German Fraunhofer Institute has created blood vessels, by printing artificial biological molecules with a 3D inkjet printer and zapping them into shape with a laser. Dying patients could someday receive a 3D-printed organ made from their own cells rather than wait on long lists for the short supply of organ transplants. Such a futuristic dream remains far from reality, but university labs and private companies have already taken the first careful steps by using 3D-printing technol
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Pioneering 3D printing reshapes patient's face in Wales
A survivor of a serious motorbike accident has had pioneering surgery to reconstruct his face using a series of 3D printed parts. Stephen Power, from Cardiff, is thought to be one of the first trauma patients in the world to have 3D printing used at every stage of the procedure.
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Stronger Than Steel, Lighter Than Water – 3D Printed Micro Trusses
A team at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, led by materials scientist Jens Bauer, have a new 3D printing material which has...
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Neurosurgeons successfully implant 3D printed skull
A 22-year-old woman from the Netherlands who suffers from a chronic bone disorder has had the top section of her skull removed and replaced with a 3D printed implant
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Tech grad student invents better 3D printer
An Iron Man mask, a 20-sided die, an iPhone case and a stretchy bracelet. What do these seemingly unrelated items have in common? They were all printed by...
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Micro 3D printer smashes Kickstarter goal
Claiming to be the first 'truly consumer' 3D printer, the Micro 3D printer has raised over $1 million
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For one man, a $50 3D printed hand beats a $42,000 prosthetic
Since 2012, people have been 3D printing robotic hands with a design made open source through the Robohand project. Fifty-three-year-old Jose Delgado, Jr. recently swapped out his $42,000 prosthetic arm for a 3D printed one derived from Robohand and found it actually helped him accomplish more. 3D Universe has posted an interview with Delgado, along…
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IBM 3D Prints World's Smallest Magazine Cover
National Geographic Kid's nano-printed cover is small enough to fit on a grain of salt -- 2,000 times. The gray-scale duplication of NatGeo Kids' cover is actually invisible to the naked eye. Dr. Colin Rawlings, a physicist at IBM Research, said that even with a microscope, you'd only be able to make our a blurry image. To see it in full, you need an electron microscope.
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Behold, a 3D Printer That Can Print Makeup! #WANT
Where do you get your beauty inspiration from — Pinterest? The beauty blogosphere? YouTube? Brit + Co’s in-house makeup and hair maven Miss Misty Spinney?! Yup, us too. Now imagine that day of DIY beauty with a bit of a bonus. Say, you pull up your “Beauty Is in the Board of the Pinner” board on Pinterest, open up a tutorial you’ve been meaning to try and... shoot, you don’t have the perfect shade to sweep on for that dramatic cat eye. What’s a girl to do? 3D print it out, that’s what.
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We Just Discovered What '4-D Printing' Is, And Our Mind Is Blown
Citi just came out with a list of disruptive innovations that are going to change the world. The top thing on their list is '4-D printing.' Obviously '3-D printing' gets tons of hype, but we had never heard of the 4-D version until then. The concept is the work of Skylar Tibbits, a researcher in MIT's architecture department, in collaboration with Stratasys Ltd. and Autodesk Inc.
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Lockheed Martin Will Use 3D-Printing to Keep Up With SpaceX
Lockheed Martin is the Pentagon’s biggest supplier for everything from missiles to satellites. But as the military tightens its belt, it's forcing the US Air Force to consider competitors, namely SpaceX, which is threatening the company’s market dominance.
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A 3D Printed Cast That Can Heal Your Bones 40-80% Faster
It looks like something from the Borg (read, cool), but it’s actually a cast for healing bones. The Osteoid, created by Turkish student Deniz Karasahin, incorporates 3D printing and ultrasonic tech to make healing a broken bone more bearable.
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Permanent tattoos inked by hacked 3D printer
During a recent electronics workshop at the ENSCI-Les Ateliers design school in Paris, a group of students decided to swap a MakerBot's extruder for a pen. Within a few hours, they had modified the printer to draw simple, short-term doodles on skin. Not satisfied with temporary tattoos, the students added parts from a standard tattoo machine. The result: a printer that can give you permanent tats.
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Thanks to 3-D Printing, Getting a Tattoo Will Never Be the Same
Three French students transformed a 3-D printer — a MarkerBot Replicator 3-D printer, to be exact, (price tag: less than $3,000) — into a tattoo machine. We can now officially add "gives tattoos" to the ever-growing list of things 3-D printers are capable of.
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3D Printed Sugar Cubes are Here
Earlier this year, 3D Systems introduced their ChefJet series of kitchen-ready 3D printers for edibles. The first two printers in the series are the monochrome, countertop ChefJet 3D printer (8x8x6″) and the full-color, larger format ChefJet Pro 3D printer (10x14x8″). Both are expected to be available in the second half of 2014. ChefJet printable materials come in a variety of recipes, including chocolate, vanilla, mint, sour apple, cherry and watermelon.
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Researchers Now Able To 3D Print Working Blood Vessels
One of the biggest problems with printing human meat was the creation of blood vessels and ventricles. Making a solid mass of flesh was easy but adding a way to pump blood and other nutrients through the flesh was more difficult. Now researchers at the University of Sydney, Harvard, Stanford and MIT, have solved some of these problems by creating a skeleton of vessels and then growing human cells around them.
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