3D printing

A 3D printed cybernetic ear that even a transhumanist would love

Generating organs and tissue with 3D printers is nothing new. But this bioengineered ear is unique in that it utilizes embedded electronics that allow it to pick up radio frequencies outside the range of normal human hearing. Integrating electronics with biological materials hasn’t been easy owing to heat and mechanical issues. Standard tissue engineering techniques,…

io9 George Dvorsky

MakerBot Founder: 3D Printing and the “Next Industrial Revolution”

You can 3D print just about anything, from dresses to snowboards to a human face. A big part of the reason 3D printing is closing in on the mainstream is thanks to MakerBot, which is equipping anyone with an imagination—and $2,200 for a MakerBot Replicator—to print the physical manifestations of their dreams. https://gizmodo.com/burlesque-superstar-dita-von-teese-goes-metropolis-in-t-5989627 MakerBot was…

Tech News Leslie Horn

The First Full-Color 3D Printer Is Even Lovelier Than Its Creations

3D printers have promised to revolutionize manufacturing as we know it, but are we really going to spend the future with such a limited color palette for our 3D creations? Not if botObjects’ new full color ProDesk3D printer delivers on its lofty promises. Instead of being limited to just a handful of colors based on…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Artist “Nanofactures” Paintings Using a 3D Printer and Molecular Modelling Software

What does art look like in the age of “hacked matter,” when anyone can print anything on-demand? That’s the question Shane Hope, a New York-based visual artist, is trying to answer. In “Nano-Nonobjective-Oriented Ontographs and Qubit-Built Quilts,” his new show at Chelsea’s Winkleman Gallery, Hope is showing a collection of amazingly intricate paintings, each containing…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

9 Incredible Objects That Prove 3D Printers Are Totally Worth it

If you’ve got a 3D printer and a little bit of imagination, you can make pretty much anything. While these machines are still too expensive to be completely ubiquitous, early adopters are making some really amazing things. We got a look at a few of these objects at the 3D Printing Expo in New York…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Scientists Have 3D-Printed Mini Human Livers for the First Time Ever

The dream of one day completely doing away with frustratingly long transplant lists in favor of made to order, 3D-printed organs is closer to becoming a reality. Scientists at Organovo in San Diego have, for the very first time, been able to 3D print tiny replicas of human livers. At just half a millimeter deep…

Health Ashley Feinberg

Where the Toys Come From: Inside Hasbro’s Model Workshop

Designing toys takes sketching and planning and imagining, sure. But what’s even more impressive is the actual making—still a much more industrial and craftsmanlike process than you’d imagine. It requires, essentially, a whole factory condensed into a few rooms of Hasbro’s headquarters outside of Providence, Rhode Island. https://gizmodo.com/autobots-assembled-how-transformers-come-to-life-5994962 We were recently able to get an…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

3D sonograms let blind expectant parents “see” their babies

Jorge Roberto Lopes dos Santos, an industrial designer with the Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia in Brazil, is giving doctors a new way to print sonograms for their patients — as life-size replicas. The prenatal sonogram is a life-changing moment for many expectant parents, giving rise to the inherent value these images hold whether as printouts…

io9 Morgen Peck — Tech Page One

Watch 3D-printed synthetic tissue react like the real thing

Scientists from Oxford University have developed a tissue-like printed material consisting of thousands of water droplets encased in a liquid film. They’ve essentially created printable artificial tissue — and it could someday be used to replace or supplement cells found inside our bodies. Indeed, the potential for this technology is considerable. These ‘droplet networks’ could…

io9 George Dvorsky

Print An Interactive Robot On The 3D Printer You Totally Have

Look, you probably don’t have a 3D printer. But if you do and you want to really scare the crap out of your friends you need a humanoid robot head like MAKI, the “emotive robot” that you build with 3D printed parts plus third party tech. Designed by HelloRobo, the idea is to provide a…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Scientists Can Print Synthetic Tissue Using Just Water and Oil

3D printing isn’t all about making guns and toys—some researchers are using it to make real medical advances. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Oxford has managed to create a 3D printer that can produce synthetic tissue using just water and oil. 3D printers have been produced in the past that can…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Oh this? Nothing. Just the 3D-printed skeleton of a living, breathing animal.

This is what you get when you take data from a CT scan and convert it into a format that can be read by a 3D-printer. It’s a skeleton. But not just any skeleton. The 3D model you see here was printed while the rat whose bones it’s based on was still alive. Intact. Still…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How 3D Printing Gave This Man His Life (and Face) Back

While doctors have experimented with 3D-printed prosthetics in the past, none has been quite as prominent or incredibly detailed as Eric Moger’s newest addition: a prosthetic, 3D-printed face. https://gizmodo.com/how-a-3d-printed-jaw-let-a-woman-eat-again-5882549 Four years ago, Eric underwent surgery to remove a tennis-ball-sized tumor in the left side of his face—along with almost the entire face itself. Left with…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Yes Yes Yes. 3D Print Your Own Real-life N64 GoldenEye Remote Mines

Ask anyone who was an avid gamer in the 1990s what the greatest console game of all time is, and a vast majority will say GoldenEye on the N64. Many of us lost a good chunk of our childhood to the game’s fantastic multiplayer mode and its wonderful weaponry, including the dastardly remote mines which…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Watch the Full Documentary About 3D Printed Weapons: Click. Print. Gun.

After getting teased with the trailer for Click. Print. Gun, Motherboard’s documentary on the 3D printed gun movement, we finally get to watch the whole thing. The doc takes a look at Cody R. Wilson, a 25-year-old University of Texas law student, and how he’s been building weapon parts with a 3D printer. https://gizmodo.com/the-terrifying-future-is-3d-printed-weapons-5991601 Right…

Tech News Casey Chan

Can You Really 3D Print a Snowboard? (Kind Of)

Using traditional fabrication techniques the folks at Signal Snowboards have made decks from all kinds of crazy materials, including glass. But this month they’re trying out a radically different fabrication technique to see if you really can make a usable snowboard with a 3D printer. https://gizmodo.com/its-shocking-how-much-abuse-this-all-glass-snowboard-ta-5986045 Given the size limitations of 3D printers the snowboard…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Terrifying Future is 3D Printed Weapons

Motherboard just released a trailer for Click. Print. Gun., its upcoming documentary on 3D printed guns, and you get to see a glimpse of the terrifying future that is having access to guns and gun parts that you can just click and print. The doc follows Cody R. Wilson, a guy who has home printed…

Movies Casey Chan

A Memo to Investors in 11D Technologies, Inc.

You may have seen reports this week that a team at MIT is developing so-called “4D printing” technology, which would go far beyond current 3D printing technology’s capacity to print three-dimensional objects with a machine. This team has stated that its fourth “D” involves objects self-assembling. I want to assure you, my unwavering investors, that…

Tech News Michael Ward - McSweeney's

This Ghost-Shaped iPhone Nightlight Will Scare Away the Dark

Being afraid of the dark is nothing to be ashamed of (he keeps telling himself) and if you still need the reassurance of a nightlight to fall asleep, this clip-on ghost will let your iPhone tackle that duty as well. Available from Shapeways’ 3D printing service for $16, when used with an app of your…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

New Balance Adopts 3D Printing To Create Hyper-Customized Track Shoes

As 3D printing technology matures, it’s becoming useful for more than just making plastic weapons and trinkets. New Balance is the latest shoe manufacturer to use 3D printers to create footwear for professional athletes, highly customized to their specific needs and—more importantly—their feet. https://gizmodo.com/this-one-piece-3d-printed-mini-crossbow-is-adorably-dan-5990115 Using a printing process known as selective laser sintering—where plastic powder…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A 3D printed cybernetic ear that even a transhumanist would love

MakerBot Founder: 3D Printing and the “Next Industrial Revolution”

The First Full-Color 3D Printer Is Even Lovelier Than Its Creations

Artist “Nanofactures” Paintings Using a 3D Printer and Molecular Modelling Software

9 Incredible Objects That Prove 3D Printers Are Totally Worth it

Scientists Have 3D-Printed Mini Human Livers for the First Time Ever

Where the Toys Come From: Inside Hasbro’s Model Workshop

3D sonograms let blind expectant parents “see” their babies

Watch 3D-printed synthetic tissue react like the real thing

Print An Interactive Robot On The 3D Printer You Totally Have

Scientists Can Print Synthetic Tissue Using Just Water and Oil

Oh this? Nothing. Just the 3D-printed skeleton of a living, breathing animal.

How 3D Printing Gave This Man His Life (and Face) Back

Yes Yes Yes. 3D Print Your Own Real-life N64 GoldenEye Remote Mines

Watch the Full Documentary About 3D Printed Weapons: Click. Print. Gun.

Can You Really 3D Print a Snowboard? (Kind Of)

The Terrifying Future is 3D Printed Weapons

A Memo to Investors in 11D Technologies, Inc.

This Ghost-Shaped iPhone Nightlight Will Scare Away the Dark

New Balance Adopts 3D Printing To Create Hyper-Customized Track Shoes

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