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3D Printer saves baby’s life.

By On June 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment

PCL splint produced on 3D Printer saves baby’s life. Source: MSNNow When 6-month-old baby Kaiba suddenly couldn’t breath his parents knew something was horribly wrong

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3D Printing to Change the Shoe Industry?

By On June 16, 2013 · Leave a Comment

James Shorrock writes on Hypebeast his thoughts on how 3D printing could change the future of the shoe manufacturing industry.

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HYREL is 3D Printing Clay

By On June 11, 2013 · Leave a Comment

New 3D printer manufacturer HYREL has developed an extruder capable of 3D printing clay. In the video below you’ll see it printing a pyramid. A simple print indeed, but one that proves it’s possible.

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A Resin for 3D Printed Microelectronics

By On June 5, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and C-MET have developed a specialized resin that is suitable for 3D printing electronics at a microscopic scale.

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Meet the designer: Guido Mandorf

By On May 31, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Step into the fantasy world of  Guido Mandorf : a mini world full of scaled models. Since it’s ‘ prime gray month’ at i.materialise, Guido is the perfect designer to feature on the blog. For his models he 3D prints in this material and paints the models afterwards

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App Makes it Easy to Design Your Own 3D-Printed Ring

By On May 30, 2013 · Leave a Comment

3D-printing studio Shapeways unveiled a new app Wednesday that allows customers to create their own 3D-printed rings without the need for sophisticated 3D-modeling software.

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3D Printed Fireworks? Yes, Please!

By On May 30, 2013 · Leave a Comment

No, you can’t 3D print gunpowder, as far as we know, but you can actually make fireworks. Christophe Hermanns of Belgian-based Vigo Universal used 3D printing to create several devices used to hold live fireworks in Les Orryflammes’ pyrotechnic shows.

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Husband And Wife Architects Create The Sugar Lab, A Foundry For 3D Printed Sweets

By On May 30, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Kyle and Liz von Hasseln aren’t your typical designers. Initially focused on architecture, the pair stumbled upon an interesting business idea when they wanted to make a special cake for a friend’s birthday: the Sugar Lab . “It was our friend Chelsea’s birthday, and we didn’t have an oven to bake her a cake, so we decided to try to 3D print a cake for her, instead.

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Space: The Final Frontier for 3D Printing

By On May 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment

A real-life version of Star Trek’s replicator may soon churn out spare parts and chocolate bars on the International Space Station. By next year, the Star Trek replicator will no longer be the stuff of science fiction.

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Made In Space To Really Go To Space

By On May 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment

They made the 3D printer, now they send it into space. Made In Space, the startup who have designed a compact 3D printer suitable for use in the weightless environment in space, now have a flight date for their machine. In August 2014 their 3D printer will be carried aloft to the International Space Station on one of SpaceX’s Dragon supply missions.

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