3D printing

This Bike Ride Filmed As a 360º Panorama Is Amazing

Do you feel like you’re on top of the world when you’re biking? Well, you’re definitely on top of a mini-world at least, in this awesome video version of those familiar 360º panorama planets. Six GoPro cameras were used to turn biking on an ordinary trail into this trippy ride. Here’s the setup using six…

How a Chinese Company 3D-Printed Ten Houses In a Single Day

This month, architects in Amsterdam started work on the world’s first completely 3D-printed house. It’ll take three years and quite a bit of money to finish. Meanwhile, in Shanghai, a company claims to have printed ten houses with inexpensive industrial scraps in less than a day. What’s the difference? It depends on your definition of…

Join the Debate: 3D Printed Guns or Government Regulation?

Here’s the question: in a world where the design of a 3D printed gun is freely available on the internet, can we—or should we–regulate open source design? Or are limits impossible in a world of anonymous file sharing? Does any attempt at control go against the whole spirit of open source, decentralized innovation? “We cannot…

Is This The Self-Portrait Of The Future?

This is a photo of “21st Century Self-Portrait” by Joshua Harker, made using a 3D scan of his face and a CT scan of his skull. From there, he used a 3D printer and his own filigree style to create this sculpture. Harker even allows you to order a version for yourself, using a 3D…

How 3D Printing Will Create On-Demand Swarms of Disposable Drones

New advances in 3D printing are making it not only possible but also viable to manufacture cheap, print-on-demand, disposable drones designed simply to soar off over the horizon and never come back. Some British engineers did just that, and this is only the beginning. The team hails from the Advanced Manufacturing Research Center (AMRC) at…

Take a Look at the First Successfully Transplanted, 3D-Printed Skull

The first 3D printed skull transplant has taken place in the Netherlands — and they’ve released some of the early footage of the successful surgery. The surgery was performed in the University Medical Center at Utrecht University, after surgeons there began treating a patient with a condition that was causing a thickening of the skull…

Watch a Woman Get a New 3D-Printed Skull

It’s not news that we can 3D print bones or even successfully implant 3D-printed skull fragments. But a team of Dutch brain surgeons has taken things to the next level by replacing the bulk of a woman’s skull with a 3D-printed dome. It’s a little bit gnarly to watch. https://gizmodo.com/how-doctors-are-printing-bones-eyes-noses-and-blood-1474983505 Nevertheless, it was a life-saving…

Inflatable Huggable Robots Could Replace Complex Mechanical Automatons

All of those images of a dystopian future where mankind is enslaved by giant robots don’t seem so terrifying if these inflatable air-powered alternatives are realized. Not only do they seem downright adorable and huggable, they’re also incredibly easy to make once a mould has been 3D printed. Inspired by a sea slug, which it…

The World’s First 3D-Printed Kayak Is Adorably Colorful

The first ever entirely 3D-printed kayak isn’t just an impressive feat of engineering—it’s adorably child-like in its rainbow color scheme, too. Made up of 28, 3D printed sections, each has brass threaded inserts so neighboring sections can be screwed together. A little silicone caulk is used to keep things watertight, and the result is a…

You Can Use This Plastic Tape Measure Straight Out of the 3D-Printer

Maybe the most practical dream of a 3D-printing future is on-demand widgets. Missing Ikea pieces, just a button-press away. But what about instant tools, completely assembled and usable straight from the printer? That future’s almost here. You can’t print a whole toolbox yet, but tinkerer AngryMonk has developed two plans—one for a tape-measure, one for…

3D-Printed Adapter Turns Bamboo Skewers Into an Easy-Clean Whisk

If there’s one tool that’s a necessary evil in your kitchen it’s the whisk. Its ability to blend and whip is matched only by its resistance to being cleaned. But if you have access to a 3D printer and a bag of bamboo skewers, this simple adapter could mean you’ll never have to clean out…

German engineering firm EDAG’s concept Genesis gives a peek at the sweeping, sci-fi future of car design, where entire vehicle bodies are 3D printed in one piece rather than being assembled from thousands of components. Our gearhead friends at Jalopnik took a closer look during the Geneva Motor Show. [EDAG]

Visit This House Being 3D Printed in Amsterdam Right Now

If you think 3D printing is only good for making flimsy paperweights, then you’re pretty much right. A group of audacious Dutch architects, however, have just begun 3D printing an entire canal house in Amsterdam. Is the first 3D printed house a gimmick? Definitely! Is it an experiment that pushes the possibilities for 3D printing…

Surgeons reconstructed this man’s face with a 3D printer

A team of surgeons in the UK has used 3D printing to reconstruct one side of a man’s face after a traumatic motorcycle accident in which he broke his cheekbone, nose, jaw, and fractured his skull. Top image: A model of the skull with the printed implants / BBC Using casts taken from the non-injured…

You Can Now 3D Print a Model of Your New House

For most people, staring at blueprints is a real chore. Nobody really knows what all those little lines mean, and, wow, they’re just so blue. Most importantly, however, blueprints make it hard for a layperson to comprehend what a space will actually be like in real life, which is a problem when you’re building a…

A New Flexible Filament Lets You 3D-Print Custom Sneakers

Are you tired of waiting for Nike to design the perfect sneakers for your tastes? Thanks to a new flexible filament from Recreus that can be used in standard 3D printers without clogging the nozzle, you can finally design and print your own kicks in a wide variety of colors. The only limiting factors are…

A Company Wants to Monitor the Earth With 3D-Printed Sensor Tiles

Data can be boring and confusing, but not when it’s visualized right. That’s why a company called FABMOB is gathering atmospheric information and turning it into real-life 3D printed objects. Here’s how the process works: A FABMOB machine is monitors the Earth, tracking time, location, ambient light, temperature, noise level, humidity, and carbon dioxide and…

Revolutionary membrane can keep your heart beating perfectly forever

You’re looking at a rabbit’s heart beating outside the animal that once hosted it. It’s alive, pumping blood on its own thanks to a revolutionary electronic membrane that may save your life by keeping your heart beating at a perfect rate. The thin, circuit-lined stretchable membrane has been developed by scientists at the University of…

Cut Copy’s gorgeous new music video takes 3D printing to new territory

Australian electronic music band Cut Copy has put out a new video featuring some 200 3D-printed figurines. And as an added bonus, you can download the video as an open source BitTorrent bundle to make your own version. The post-apocalyptic-themed video is for Cut Copy’s track, “We Are Explorers.” The characters, which are animated via…

Cut Copy – We Are Explorers

Cut Copy’s new video for the track “We Are Explorers,” stars an interesting duo—a pair of 3D-printed figurines. It’s pretty adorable. In the stop-motion video, the glowing pair of printer pals explore Los Angeles, as you might have been able to guess from the title. And it ain’t no fake. PARTY, the creative studio behind…