3D Systems are going to unite their forces with the White House, UI Labs, the Department of Defense and some more industrial and academic organizations. As part of this collaboration, 3DS aim at employing its newest Geomagic(R) perceptual dеsign to produce tools, together with scan-to- computer-aided-design (CAD), and examination goods into the center, which would lead Read more
We have wondered if printing clothes at home will ever be possible. Well, time has come and 3Dprinted clothes are a reality. The first ever 3D printed couture dress appeared on a MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer specially for the New Skins Brumal Bodies: Computational Design for Fashion Winter 2014 workshop, which took place at the Metropolitan Exchange Read more
Professor Bahattin Koç and his team from Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences’ Manufacturing Systems Program used a 3D printer to create the first ever macro-vascular tissue with the help of self-supported living cells in the 3D Tissue and Organ Printing Laboratory. The professor and his team aim at using 3D printers to Read more
Who knows what we could expect to see in the nearest future of 3d printing technologies but now, thanks to them, you can create a lot of things, for example a full size kayak. Jim Smith, a 3D Systems engineer, maker and founder of the Grass Roots Engineering blog is the first man who transferred Read more
Before the beginning of the 21st century it was the police and the like agencies that used fingerprints single out criminals. Nowadays fingerprints are quite common in commerce. The common 2D synthetic fingerprint generators make them from statistical or mathematical models. When testing the finger scanning system scientists have to go over lots of known Read more
Almost everyone in the world has been disappointed about Leonardo DiCaprio, for he again hasn’t got another Oscar at the Academy Awards. In order to reconcile Leonardo for his fifth failure with Oscars, the famous 3D model trader for computer graphics CGTrader, thought of and proposed some solutions for Oscar statuettes to portray Leo and Read more
3D-bioprinting is a brand new technology. Probably it’s a matter of days when it’s possible to create replacement human tissue and transplant it. A group of researchers from Swansea University, the UK, are developing a design and a 3D-bioprinting technology at a new level, including biological methods to create living tissues. If everything goes right, it’s Read more
Stephen Power, a 29-year-old man from Cardiff, Wales, was badly injured in motorbike crash in 2012. As a result he broke cheek bones, eye sockets, upper jaw and skull. Right after the crash he had emergency surgery to save his life but that time doctors were not able to completely reconstruct the left side of Read more
It’s not surprising that you can get a 3D printed mini-copy of yourself. In a new Chinese 3D printing shop you can get a life-size copy of you, if you wish, or your beloved one. The 11th Pinla3D started on March 2 in east China’s Jiangsu province in Nanjing’s Wondercity Mall. This kind of store is the Read more
Union Pacific’s 4-8-8-4 “Big Boy” No. 4014 is one of the biggest and probably most renowned steam locomotive ever invented. Quite recently it was resized and built with 3D printing. The immense 3D printed model is about 1.83 meters long. It took Paul Fischer from Maryland, USA, its inventor, about 700-800 hours to sketch and Read more