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  • Analysis
    9 years ago
    by ladyliberty
    +18 +1

    How 3-D Printing Is Changing Medicine

    It’s already being used to manufacture human tissue; could a whole organ be next? Jerome Groopman reports.

  • How-to
    9 years ago
    by grumpypanda
    +3 +1

    Bld3r

    Bld3r.com is a 3D printing community for both beginners and enthusiasts. Maybe you have creations you want to share with others, or maybe you just want to learn how to do basic 3D modeling or find out which printer is right for you. We like to print in 3D, and we want to make it easier for everyone.

  • Expression
    9 years ago
    by Pfennig88
    +15 +1

    Now You Can Print 3D Sex Toys At UPS (Probably)

    At UPS, you might be able to pick up a different kind of package. The company began offering 3D printing services over the past couple of months, and UPS rules don’t explicitly prohibit customers from using those printers to create sex toys, intrepid reporters at the Daily Dot learned this week. A UPS representative told the site they won’t allow patrons to print out items like weapons or anything that’s the intellectual property of someone else. When the Daily Dot asked about sex toys...

  • Expression
    9 years ago
    by drunkenninja
    +18 +1

    Why The First Meaningful Thing To Be 3-D Printed In Space Will Be... A Buckle

    Now that the first functioning 3-D printer is on the International Space Station, scientists have settled on its first useful product: A buckle intended to keep astronauts healthy. Designed by former flight surgeon and astronaut Yvonne Cagle, the buckle is intended to tighten a compression strap that prevents muscle loss and maintains heart strength in zero-gravity conditions—a persistent challenge for space health. "I became very intrigued with what would happen if you could get the...

  • Analysis
    9 years ago
    by belangermira
    +15 +1

    3D Printed Electronic Devices Are Coming

    The handheld computers we carry in our pockets represent almost unimaginable complexity. Batteries, sensors, chips, circuits, and touch displays in a space age shell, all painstakingly assembled by thousands of workers and shipped globally.

  • Video/Audio
    9 years ago
    by AriZona
    +11 +1

    Unboxing My Son's New 3D-Printed Hand

    15 years ago we gave birth to a 4lb 9oz baby boy, I was overjoyed with happiness. I wanted to hold him up to the skies like Simba from the Lion King, but at Wordsley Hospital they’re not that keen for you to do stuff like that, so I settled for the giddiness of being able to buy Star Wars figures for my lad. He was taken away as he was premature. His mum was taken to a ward to recover and I popped in to see my little (very little) lad.

  • Current Event
    9 years ago
    by geoleo
    +31 +1

    Patent filing reveals Amazon's idea to 3D-print products on delivery trucks

    Why bother with delivery by drone when you can deliver — and make — the product on the same truck? That appears to be the thinking behind a patent application filed by Amazon Technologies and published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The application, titled “Providing Services Related to Item Delivery via 3D Manufacturing on Demand,” describes a system for electronically taking an order, making it using 3D printing or similar manufacturing methods...

  • Review
    9 years ago
    by AdelleChattre
    +1 +1

    Tom's Guide: Best 3D Printers 2015

    What’s the best 3D printer on the market? It depends on your needs. We recommend the best 3D printers for your skills, aspirations and budget.

  • Current Event
    9 years ago
    by Chubros
    +21 +1

    2015 Detroit Auto Show: You Might Be Able To Buy 3-D–Printed Cars In A Year

    Local Motors, a Phoenix-based start-up that aims to be the world’s first producer of 3-D–printed cars, plans to start selling its unconventional vehicles within 12 to 18 months. To bolster its claim, the company is pulling a curious stunt here at the 2015 North American International Auto Show: It's building what it calls a “micro-factory,” consisting of a large 3-D printer and CNC machine, on the show floor to piece together an electric vehicle in front of attendees.

  • Analysis
    9 years ago
    by drunkenninja
    +14 +1

    This mind blowing new 3D printing technique is inspired by Terminator 2​

    In an iconic scene in the movie "Terminator 2," the robotic villain T-1000 rises fully formed from a puddle of metallic goo. The newest innovation in 3D printing looks pretty similar, and that's no mistake: Its creators were inspired by that very scene. The company Carbon3D came out of two years of stealth mode Monday night with a simultaneous TED Talk and Science paper publication. Their new tech, which they say could be used in industrial applications within the next year...

  • Analysis
    9 years ago
    by drunkenninja
    +10 +1

    Here's another high-speed 3D printer that creates objects in minutes

    If Carbon3D's capability to print out objects 25 to 100 times faster than usual is the reason why you can't wait for it to come out, then you'll love this machine, too. An Australian company has announced it's also working on a super speedy printer called Gizmo 3D. It creates objects out of liquid resin by printing layers from the top to the bottom without breaks. This occurs within the vat of liquid resin itself: the build plate or the bottom of the vat was designed to slide...

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by socialiguana
    +9 +1

    Forget 3D printing—3D subtraction is going to arrive in your garage first

    A funny thing happened on the way to our supposedly 3D-printed future: A simpler, older, but no less revolutionary technology made its way into every automated factory on earth, and now it’s coming to a garage near you. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s mostly because it has a completely unbankable name—CNC routing (or CNC milling.) Also, unlike the usurper technology 3D printing, which has only lately become popular...

  • Analysis
    8 years ago
    by Graphictruth
    +2 +1

    Camera chip provides superfine 3-D resolution

    Imagine you need to have an almost exact copy of an object. Now imagine that you can just pull your smartphone out of your pocket, take a snapshot with its integrated 3-D imager, send it to your 3-D printer, and within minutes you have reproduced a replica accurate to within microns of the original ...

  • Video/Audio
    8 years ago
    by Cobbydaler
    +11 +1

    NASA Unboxes Delivery from Space Station

    Watch the unboxing of some special cargo from the International Space Station as Quincy Bean, the principal investigator for the space station printer, removes and inspects the first items made in space with a 3-D printer. Additive manufacturing has the potential to change the way we resupply the space station and will be critical for deep space missions to Mars, asteroids and other places.

  • Analysis
    8 years ago
    by AdelleChattre
    +3 +1

    The Moral Questions Raised by the Rise of Maker Culture

    Thinking through the consequences of the proliferation of powerful tools and technologies.

  • Analysis
    8 years ago
    by AriZona
    +15 +1

    3D printing may have a larger impact than the internet

    The 3D printing market just aggregated an estimated revenue of 3.3 billion US-dollars worldwide in 2014. That´s over a third more than in the previous year 2013. Prices for 3D printers are going down, and as the machines get much more affordable, the user base grows. More and more customers buy their first 3D printer, extending the user base and thus improving the support from and for the community.

  • Analysis
    8 years ago
    by TNY
    +16 +1

    What if 3D printing was 100x faster?

    What we think of as 3D printing, says Joseph DeSimone, is really just 2D printing over and over ... slowly. Onstage at TED2015, he unveils a bold new technique — inspired, yes, by Terminator 2 — that's 25 to 100 times faster, and creates smooth, strong parts. Could it finally help to fulfill the tremendous promise of 3D printing?

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by jonez334
    +15 +1

    Sea turtle given a 3D-printed jaw implant after boat accident

    Human activity almost killed this loggerhead sea turtle in Turkey, but a group of doctors and researchers are looking to right that wrong with a 3D-printed prosthetic. The turtle, which is marked...

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by Cobbydaler
    +16 +1

    L'Oreal to start 3D-printing skin

    Cosmetics firm L'Oreal is teaming up with a bio-engineering start-up to 3D-print skin for product testing.

  • Analysis
    8 years ago
    by socialiguana
    +18 +1

    Between Kickstarter’s frauds and phenoms live long-delayed projects

    In my view, consumer printers are hulking and inscrutable plastic machines, worse to look at than to use. When industrial design students need to be punished, they have to sit alone in a room with one. So a year ago, I got excited about a new Kickstarter project that promised to change the printing design paradigm. Zuta Labs' printer looked like a tiny marvel: a little machine the size of a large apple that walked across pieces of paper, leaving ink footprints.