by Bill Decker | Jun 26, 2013 | Engineering, Manufacturing
Manufacturing eyeglasses has been expensive in the past because it meant small, hand-made batches or required large investments and inventories that prevented R&D cycles from developing quickly. With new innovations that utilize 3D printing technology and a...
by Bill Decker | Jun 24, 2013 | Bioprinting, Engineering
A carpenter from South Africa and a puppeteer from Washington recently developed a 3D-printed prosthetic hand for a five year old boy born without fingers on his right hand (Amniotic Band Syndrome). Ivan Owen and Richard Van As, the puppeteer and carpenter, first...
by Bill Decker | Jun 22, 2013 | Engineering, Ideas
Lipson, a scientist at Cornell, was able to produce a robot that imitates life – it constantly learns about itself and can replicate itself with materials from a 3D printer. As long as the 3D printer has power and a supply of raw materials, the robot can...
by Bill Decker | Jun 22, 2013 | Finance
This stock deal might be worth as much as $600 million, some analysts say. The M&A activity is heating up in the 3d Printing...
by Bill Decker | Jun 20, 2013 | Bioprinting, Engineering
“It seems like science fiction.” Anything you can imagine can often be made with 3D printing, including body parts. This is one of the greatest opportunities and threats in manufacturing and medicine. “The premise is simple. Send a scanned image of a...
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