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3D printing offers great potential for mass customization and manufacturing tools. 

No matter what industry you’re in, your company can’t survive without technology. From smart phones and tablets to mobile apps and cloud-based technology, there’s a plethora of technological advancements to […]

From how they’re born to how they live to the end of their life cycle, this story is common to them all. “Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies […]

Together, the fleet of drones spent all of six hours taking over 2,000 high-resolution photos, which were then assembled into a 300-million-point 3D model.

“We are just beginning to glimpse the bare outlines of an emerging new economic system–the collaborative commons,” explains economist Jeremy Rifkin

Scheduled to arrive late next year for testing, the printer will enable astronauts to make replacement parts quickly and easily, saving money as well as stress.

The most striking thing you will notice is the peanut shape of the central bulge of the galaxy, as viewed from a different perspective than we get from Earth. 

Have we already reached peak car? This is the term that urban planners are using to describe the decline in vehicle miles traveled per person. 

Early versions of Defense Distributed’s Liberator will be on display during the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Design Festival as proof of the institution’s “responding quickly to world events when they touch our areas of expertise.”

Custom-made from a dental scan and designed to fit over the teeth, the Blizzident claims to do the job of a regular toothbrush in only six seconds.

To celebrate 10 years of images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter, the German Aerospace Center has compiled a video that gives sweeping digital views of the planet’s landscape.

New research suggests that the “automaton-like” nature of the typical immersive video game avatar can desensitize players to their own pain and that of others, regardless of the level of violence in the game.

Yes, say Michigan Tech researchers, who compared the costs of purchasing certain common inexpensive household items against the costs of printing them at home. The savings was significant.

Memories triggered by smell are more emotional than those triggered by sounds, pictures or words

A team of researchers is working on 3D-printing different organ cells, connecting them with a tiny circulatory system, and putting the whole thing on a two-inch chip, creating a “test subject” that’s steps up from animals or single-organ cell groups.

Because Petri dishes are so 20th-century: University of Texas scientists have created microscopic habitats for bacteria using layers of protein and a high-precision laser. They mimic the natural environments found in human organs.

Researchers have come up with a printing process involving a special silver-based conductive ink that can deposit itself to paper. For home hobbyists, it could bridge the gap between a plastic casing and a working electronic device.

As user interfaces grow more sophisticated, incidences of motion sickness — and the less-well-known simulation sickness — are expected to increase. Writer Christopher Mims says this may become the new normal.

Under the tremendous pressure and at the incredible temperatures of the Earth’s deep interior, there’s a thick layer of liquid: our outer core. But why is it so? “If you ever […]

A new image editing method will have graphic designers cheering and weeping in equal measure. The new technique lets you take a two-dimensional image, and with as little as three […]

How the Universe tells us its age, size, and properties, and leads us inescapably to the conclusion that it’s billions, not merely thousands, of years old. Today, we’re lucky enough to […]

Forget about gift shop miniatures: A San Diego man is taking pictures of the world’s great sculptures and converting them into files that he is offering for free to anyone with a 3D printer.  

While the vast majority of mainstream press attention (and capital) focuses on the 1st through 3rdVerticals, some of the real paradigm shifting technologies and approaches may be in the 4th and 5th Verticals. […]

Not literally: For an upcoming exhibit, the Museum of London will display detailed 3D-printed replicas that people can hold. From them, researchers also hope to learn jewelry-making techniques that are all but lost.

The race to build the world’s first 3D-printed house is on. Italian civil engineer Enrico Dini (the subject of an upcoming documentary called “The Man Who Prints Houses”) has plans to print […]

Her is quite the meticulous and creepily seductive criticism of our techno-orientation toward transhumanism.  It is the dystopian film of our time, a haunting glimpse at the near future. The transhumanist theory is […]

Scientists in an Austrian lab have created complex human brain tissue from stem cells, creating what the scientific community are now calling “mini-brains.”

Create It Real, which also manufactures 3D printer components, says its software — which currently only works on its hardware — is able to detect a gun schematic and prevent it from printing.

There’s going to be much more, much stronger emphasis on kind of creative work, on generating content. 

Researchers at Harvard and the University of Chicago used “electrochemically active ink” and a custom 3D printer to print microbatteries smaller than a single grain of sand.