If you aren’t sold on 3D printing just yet, this coming April it will be hard to deny the fact that this technology is here to stay. We’ve seen 3D printed cars, houses, fashion design, and more. We’ve even seen custom 3D printed musical instruments created for superstar musicians. Continue reading “Amazing 2-String 3D Printed Violin is Part of Something Special Which Could Revolutionize Music”
MakerBot Raises Print Media from the Dead with Chang-rae Lee’s New Novel
Whoever said print is dead forgot to check with 3D printing. Acclaimed author Chang-rae Lee, winner of the Hemmingway Foundation/PEN award for first fiction, and Makerbot have collaborated to produce a unique take on the book cover. Only 200 copies will be available, each signed by the author. The release date is currently scheduled for January 7th, 2014. Continue reading “MakerBot Raises Print Media from the Dead with Chang-rae Lee’s New Novel”
Stunning Kinematics from Nervous System
It seems we have the first proprietary name for an application of “4D Printing”. Coming from Nervous System, a generative design studio, which was founded in 2007 by Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, Kinematics is a project that has resulted from Nervous System’s collaboration with Motorola’s Advanced Technology and Projects group, initiated earlier this year, and fulfilled using technology from 3D Systems. The aim of the original brief for the collaboration was for Nervous System to “create in-person customisation experiences for low cost 3D printers.” The result — Kinematics — certainly fulfills that brief but also has many wider implications for 3D printing. Continue reading “Stunning Kinematics from Nervous System”
This Badass 3-D Camera Array Could Revolutionize Entertainment
Augmented Reality, 3-D printing, retail catalogs, gaming–just a few of 3-D photography’s potential applications. A new 64-camera rig from L.A. photographer Alexx Henry could make realistic 3-D ubiquitous.
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MIT Invents A Shapeshifting Display You Can Reach Through And Touch (VIDEO)
The Tangible Media Group at MIT’s Media Lab had unveiled a futuristic display made of atoms, not pixels.
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Hidden codes in 3D prints coming soon
Currently most paper printers include coded messages in the form of tiny yellow dots, listing the printer, date, and other information. The same can be done with 3D prints, and Microsoft calls it InfraStructs. Continue reading “Hidden codes in 3D prints coming soon”
Hex Airbot Shatters Crowdfunding Goal For Its Cheap, 3D Printed Drones
Hex’s tiny Airbot drone first turned heads earlier this year at China-based hardware acceleratorHaxlr8r’s second demo day, and now the team behind it is finally pushing to bring the inexpensive flier to market by way of a recent-launched Kickstarter campaign. Continue reading “Hex Airbot Shatters Crowdfunding Goal For Its Cheap, 3D Printed Drones”
Beautifically intricate 3D printed replicas of people and pets from Captured Dimensions
Jordan Williams creates high-resolution 3D scans of people (and their pets) and has them 3D printed. Continue reading “Beautifically intricate 3D printed replicas of people and pets from Captured Dimensions”
Print me the head of Alfredo Garcia
A new, low-cost way of making things Continue reading “Print me the head of Alfredo Garcia”
3D Printers of the World Unite – PrintToPeer’s Giant 3DP Sculpture in the Making
3D printing, though only starting to see its days of glory in the distance, wants to go all out and enjoy more (positive) media coverage to push its agenda of a new way to look and make things, even without a billionaire inventor behind it. In this case, instead of pure speed, the next manufacturing paradigm’s focus is on size and collaborative effort.
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