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The process of manufacturing a three-dimensional object from a digital model by adding layers of materials
What's the Latest Development? A team of designers from MIT Media Lab's Mediated Matters Group -- which "focuses on biologically inspired design fabrication tools and technologies aiming to enhance the relation between natural and man-made environments," according to their Web site -- created a ...
What's the Latest Development? Now that the US State Department has temporarily banned the release of schematics for 3D printed guns -- after they were downloaded over 100,000 times since their publication last week by the firearms manufacturer Defense Distributed -- writer Cory Doctorow wonders ...
Many people actually believe right now that we can print an entire living organ. There’s this notion that we can print a real eyeball right now. That’s decades off. The state-of-the-art right now is that researchers have successfully printed living cells into the exact figuration of a piece of ...
Of all of the applications for additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, food tends to be the most universally popular. In today's lesson, Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman, authors of Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing, show us how digital cuisine not only allows chefs to print interesting ...
Digital cuisine is something that everybody gets excited about. It doesn’t matter whether you go to a group of very buttoned up executives and you show them a 3-D printer printing food. They seem to end up clustered around it and everybody looks as they see a cookie slowly being printed out on the ...
The artist Bill Westheimer says he has been experimented with making 3-D holograms "before he could drive." Westheimer's current Kickstarter project, called Ascent: the evolution of analog man to digital man, imagines how man's future evolution might happen, and what we might become. As ...
If you missed the White House Science Fair today -- which you probably did -- you can see the rebroadcast below, featuring hosts LeVar Burton and Bill Nye. Here's why this is worth watching. In case you were worried about the state of science education in the U.S., this video will give you a ...
What's the Latest Development? 3D printing began as a handy tool inventors could use to make inexpensive prototypes but the technology has already advanced into the realm of real manufacturing. Products like durable airplane parts, which rarely need replacing, are difficult customers for the ...
What's the Big Idea? How well did you do with your Christmas shopping this year? Did your daughter's face light up when she unwrapped Elmo? Did you delight your husband with Skyrim? According to Kevin Ryan, CEO of the online luxury shopping website Gilt Groupe, the best Christmas gifts are ...
What's the Latest Development? 3D printing is taking on an increasingly large role in the manufacturing processes of large American companies like GE. The airplane manufacturer uses a laser to trace out the shape of plane components, such as a fuel injector, "on a bed of cobalt-chrome powder ...
What's the Latest Development? Mark Frame, an orthopedic surgical trainee at Scotland's Monklands Hospital, 3D printed a model of a bone from a CT scan, as preparation for surgery. Rather than using the local rapid prototyping shop at a university (where such an operation might cost $1200 for a ...
Engineers from the University of Southampton built a drone aircraft from parts printed on a 3D laser printing machine. They entered each part's specifications and the machine printed out all the pieces by building up layers of plastic or metal until each part was complete. Then they took the parts ...