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3D printer drones will take to skies by 2040, claim BAE scientists
Futurists technologies could allow aircraft to heal itself, divide into smaller ones or knock out missiles with direct energy
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These 3D printed earphones are tailor-made for your ears
It’s almost impossible to find the right pair of earphones. They’re either too large, too small or just an odd fit, but Normal wants to change all that. With Normal’s 3D printed earphones, you can buy a product that contours perfectly to your weird ears, no matter the size or shape. Simply download the Normal app (available on Android and iOS), take pictures of your ears, customize your Normals and press send.
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MonkeyFab Remembers The Warsaw Uprising With A Surreptitious 3D Scan
Polish 3D printer maker MonkeyFab has created a 3D scan of the Mały Powstaniec or Little Resistance Fighter, a statue in Warsaw's Old Town that commemorates..
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3D-printed vertebra used in spine surgery
Surgeons in Beijing, China, have successfully implanted an artificial, 3D-printed vertebra replacement in a young boy with bone cancer. They say it is the first time such a procedure has ever been done. During a five-hour operation, the doctors first removed the tumor located in the second vertebra of 12-year-old Minghao's neck and replaced it with the 3D-printed implant between the first and third vertebrae, CCTV.com reported earlier this month.
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Guy builds printer that can print concrete, the first thing he does? Prints a castle in his back yard.
A castle materializes out of thin air without hundreds of stone chiselers putting in decades of hard labor to make it happen. Is it the plot of a new Disney film? Nope. It's what happened recently in Minnesota -- and the wizard who whipped up this magic castle was Andrey Rudenko, a contractor with a background in engineering.
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NASA flying first zero-gravity 3D printer into space
A small desktop-size 3D printer is about to boldly go where no 3D printer has gone before: into space. The printer is scheduled to launch with other cargo on a resupply mission aboard SpaceX-4, which could head up the International Space Station as early as September 19.
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This Portable, Foldable Wind Turbine Fits In A Backpack And Can Charge A Laptop
While most wind turbines are getting bigger - like this U.K. design with blades as long as a football field - a few are going in the opposite direction and aiming to become as small as possible. A new 3-D printed wind turbine is small and lightweight enough to fit in a backpack.
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Doctors Show Why 3D Printing Holds 'Limitless' Potential For Medicine
The world of medicine is being transformed by 3D printing technology. In Beijing, doctors have performed the world's first surgery using a 3D printed vertebra. The procedure was done in the neck of a 12-year-old boy who had developed cancer.
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World’s First 3D Printed Car Took Years to Design, But Only 44 Hours to Print
One day, in the not-too-distant future, you’ll be able to walk into a car dealership, choose a design — including the number of seats — and have a 3D printed car by the end of the day. This is Jay Rogers’ vision. Rogers is the CEO of Local Motors, the company that just built the world's first 3D printed car known as the Strati. The electric, pint-sized two-seater was officially unveiled last week at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) in Chicago, Illinois.
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Next To Hit The Roads: 3D Printed Cars
Coming soon to a showroom near you: the 3D printed car. Walk right in, pick out the configuration - two seats or four, convertible or hardtop, custom features—and drive it home at the end of the day.
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Motor Mouth: This 3D-printed car could change everything
It is like watching the Phoenix — in a modern “real-time” rebirth — rise from its mythical ashes. Or like watching David — if time-lapse photography had existed back when Michelangelo worked his magic — emerge from a mere block of stone. In one contiguous, if only slightly monotonous, 44-hour melding of computer, plastic and laser beams, a company called Local Motors “3D-printed” a car.
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The assault rifle you can make at home: Inventor of 3D printed plastic gun reveals $1200 ‘ghost gunner’ milling machine
The controversial inventor behind the 3D printed gun has revealed his latest project – a $1200 milling machine to make untraceable rifles. Called the Ghost Gunner, the CNC mill can produce metal parts to built a rifle. The rifle does not have a serial number, and is therefore known as a ‘ghost’ gun. Defense Distributed’s previous creations have included 3-D printable plastic magazines and the Defender gun wrong brought it worldwide attention earlier this year.
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Disney rendered its new animated film on a 55,000-core supercomputer
Disney's upcoming animated film Big Hero 6, about a boy and his soft robot (and a gang of super-powered friends), is perhaps the largest big-budget
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3D-printed gun maker in Japan sentenced to two years in prison
A 28-year-old former university employee was sentenced today in Japan to two years in prison for manufacturing plastic 3D-printed firearms in violation of national weapons laws, according to The Japan News. Yoshitomo Imura is said to have created at least two plastic guns at his home in Kawaski, Japan, that were capable of firing bullets, according to the report. He appears to be the first person in world history to receive a jail sentence for making 3D-printed firearms.
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First 3D full-body scanning booth to create custom figurines
3D hardware maker Artec announced the U.S. debut of the Shapify Booth, which can scan a person's body in 12 seconds to create 3D printed replica figurines
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Solid Concepts Announces Another 3D-Printed Metal Gun
Solid Concepts, a company that specializes in 3D printing in metal and now owned by Stratasys, as announced their second 3D-printed metal gun, the Reason...
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3-D-printed organs are on the way
Add one more to the growing list of 3-D-printed products: human organs. California-based biotech firm Organovo (ONVO) is set to begin selling 3-D-printed liver tissue by the end of the year, part of the growing movement to bring the technology to the medical field.
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'Foodini' machine lets you print edible burgers, pizza, chocolate
As further proof that you can now 3D-print anything, a company called Natural Machines has introduced a 3D printer for food.
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The End of the Throwaway Appliance
Right now, it's probably cheaper and easier to buy a new appliance than to have one repaired. This won't always be the case. Here are three things that will bring about the return of the appliance repair and end the age of the throw away appliance.
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New metal lets today’s 3D printers make tomorrow’s electronics
When entrepreneur Michael Toutonghi and his son wanted to make a rocket in their family basement, they went about it in a thoroughly modern way: though the duo wasn’t gearing up to produce their rockets by the hundreds, the production and assembly processes were still too tedious to be done entirely by hand. Well-versed in using 3D printers to assist rapid prototyping, the two Toutonghis set about automating as much of the process as possible, but their efforts hit a wall when it came time...
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