3D printing

You Did What? Idiots Teach Robots How To Build Their Own Tools

Well, this is just fantastic. We’re all for the advancement of robot technology so that one day they can cater to our every beck and call. But researchers at ETH Zurich have foolishly designed a robot that can create its own custom tools to complete tasks. In this particular case the robot was tasked with…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

What Would You Most Like to See Printed in 3D?

Right now, strange and spectacular 3D-printed objects are proliferating in the tech and design worlds. Butt plugs, cakes, brains, scaled models of Fenway Park. There is seemingly no object that a 3D printer won’t try. What would you, our readers, like to see printed in 3D? Please, share your answers and ideas in the comments!…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

A Custom-Made, Data-Driven Butt Plug for Each GOP Presidential Candidate

Forget everything that’s come before: these data-driven butt plugs are far and away the best use of 3D-printing technology on this side of the 2012 presidential campaign. Grand Ole Party is a data visualization of voter approval rates, amongst registered republicans, for each of the GOP candidates. It’s also a set of butt plugs. To…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Eat Your Own Brain (and Live to Tell About It)

The Edible Chocolate Brain is perfect for the narcissist in love with their own intellect. They merely have to spend a chunk of time in an MRI tube, and from that data, Inition can create a 3D model of a brain which is then fed to a 3D printer to forge a 3D mold. Equipped…

Tech News Adrian Covert

You Can Get Your Face Frozen In Carbonite Now

You no longer have to be a smuggler who drops his shipments at the first sign of an Imperial cruiser to be frozen in carbonite. As part of its Star Wars-themed weekends, Disney World is now offering that service to all of its guests. But you don’t have to worry about how you’re going to…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Intricate Replica of Fenway Park Is an Awesome Example of 3D Printing

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park’s first game, 3D printing company Objet produced an incredible 1/200-scaled thermal-plastic park in miniature. To achieve closest accuracy, Objet referenced blueprints and pictures of the current park, then recreated the stadium in 3D software. The lil’ Green Monster measures 3′ by 5′, weighs 105lbs, and is comprised…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

3D Chocolate Printer Sadly Arrives Too Late To Churn Out Easter Bunnies

The creators of what will be one of the first commercially available 3D chocolate printers had hoped their device would hit the market well before Easter, letting consumers print their own cheap bunnies and eggs at home. But sadly the British-based Choc Edge won’t get its printer into the hands of the chocaholic masses until…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

MIT wants to make printable robots

The newest wonderfully insane concept out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) aims to democratize and simplify the creation of robots, by having ones you can print as needed. The five-year project, dubbed “An Expedition in Computing for Compiling Printable Programmable Machines,” brings together researchers from MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, and…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Snap-Together Voltron Chess Set Is a Checkmate Of Awesome

The game of chess has long been viewed as a pursuit for nerds. But that’s totally going to change with Joseph Larson’s Thingiverse creation—a custom chess set where all the pieces come together to form a super robot ala Voltron. The set was created for a Tinercad-sponsored contest to design a unique chess set. With…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Adapter Kit Lets Your Lego Bricks and Lincoln Logs Play Together

If you’ve ever wished your building sets like Lego, K’Nex, Tinker Toys, and even Lincoln Logs could all fit in with each other, this universal construction kit will make your dreams come true. That is, uh, if you’ve got a 3D printer handy. Seeing all of those unique hybrid building pieces all laid out is…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

These iPhone Cases Are Made of Sound

iPhone cases tend to be pretty generic, but if you can make a sound, you can have your own completely unique case. That’s because Shapeways will turns sounds—any sound—into an iPhone case. The 3D printing company has teamed up with Soundcloud to turn audio into wearable art. Upload an MP3 to Soundcloud, or pick one…

Tech News Mat Honan

Artists Give Siri Physical Form

Siri is a lot of things to a lot of people—unmotivational fitness coach, mildly-incompetent navigator, and tin-eared first runner-up in a two-AI contest to name just a few. But now a group of artists have given Siri a human touch by supposing what the automated assistant would look like in the flesh. These are actually…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Smithsonian Turns To 3D Printing To Share Their Collection

According to The Creators Project, the Smithsonian has over 137 million pieces in its collection, but only enough room to display about 2 percent of them. So it’s turning to 3D printing to share as much as it can. Working with a company called Redeye, who specializes in 3D scanning and rapid prototyping, the Smithsonian…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How a 3D-Printed Jaw Let a Woman Eat Again

If dental hygiene isn’t high on your priorities, don’t worry: now you can just print a new set of teeth. Last year, an 83-year-old woman had her entire lower jaw replaced with a 3D printed replica. https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-keep-your-teeth-from-rotting-out-5880080/ The surgery, carried out by doctors from the University of Hasselt, Belgium, saw them replace the woman’s original,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Need your jaw removed? Why don’t you just print out a new one?

That’s what an 83 year old woman in Belgium did. Her seriously infected jaw needed to be removed, but reconstructive surgery would have been too dangerous for such an elderly patient. That’s when the doctors fired up the 3D printer. The announcement comes from researchers at Belgium’s University of Hasselt, who say this represents the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

GE’s Research Lab Creates 3D Printed Jet Engine Ornaments—R&D Money Well Spent

Is it a coincidence that a video showing researchers using one of GE’s 3D printers to make these ornaments has been switched to private? Because I want them to know that this is an awesome use of their R&D budget. Seriously. If I had access to a 3D printer I wouldn’t be prototyping parts. I’d…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Cube Made of Gears Shouldn’t Work, But It Does

Watching this cube slowly turn itself inside out as its internal gears mesh together is a mesmerizing and puzzling experience. It looks like it should never work, but it does. I have a degree in engineering. Hell, I have a PhD in engineering. I (kind of) know how it works. But it still looks like…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

9 Aesthetic Prosthetics

Advances in modern prosthetic technology are quickly redefining what constitutes a “disability.” Our friends at Oobject have compiled nine of the latest cutting-edge limb replacements in existence. Don’t believe that prosthetics are really narrowing the ability gap? Challenge Oscar “Tink Tink” Pistorius to a foot race and then check out these examples of medical scaffolding,…

Health Oobject.com

Can 3D Printers Make Libraries Useful Again?

As the printed word gives way to digital distribution, libraries must change in both form and function in order to remain relevant in the Internet age. One New York book repository has taken the lead in this effort by installing the country’s first “maker’s space” within a public library. The effort is being spearheaded by…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Lucky Charms Sifter Gets Straight to the Sweet, Sweet Point

Lucky Charms would be one of the finest foods ever created—if only the actual cereal bits weren’t pooping on marshmallows’ tasty parade. Thankfully, Thingiverse user Tom Lombardi invented a solution for this age old problem. Enter the Lucky Charms Sifter. According to Lombardi, the humble-looking 3D printed cup removes over 90 percent of all the…

Gadgets Michael Zhao

You Did What? Idiots Teach Robots How To Build Their Own Tools

What Would You Most Like to See Printed in 3D?

A Custom-Made, Data-Driven Butt Plug for Each GOP Presidential Candidate

Eat Your Own Brain (and Live to Tell About It)

You Can Get Your Face Frozen In Carbonite Now

This Intricate Replica of Fenway Park Is an Awesome Example of 3D Printing

3D Chocolate Printer Sadly Arrives Too Late To Churn Out Easter Bunnies

MIT wants to make printable robots

Snap-Together Voltron Chess Set Is a Checkmate Of Awesome

Adapter Kit Lets Your Lego Bricks and Lincoln Logs Play Together

These iPhone Cases Are Made of Sound

Artists Give Siri Physical Form

The Smithsonian Turns To 3D Printing To Share Their Collection

How a 3D-Printed Jaw Let a Woman Eat Again

Need your jaw removed? Why don’t you just print out a new one?

GE’s Research Lab Creates 3D Printed Jet Engine Ornaments—R&D Money Well Spent

This Cube Made of Gears Shouldn’t Work, But It Does

9 Aesthetic Prosthetics

Can 3D Printers Make Libraries Useful Again?

Lucky Charms Sifter Gets Straight to the Sweet, Sweet Point

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