3D Printing Pills, Medication
The University of Nottingham has a team working on design optimization for different medications so that 3D printing various pills and inhalers becomes feasible. With these innovations, 3D printing in medicine will become an invaluable commodity. They say the next...
Frame Idea Made Real: What 3D Printing Can Do
Have you ever had an idea for a product in your head, but it seemed too hard to make? Nadia Ahmad, an art director, wanted to create a new kind of picture frame. She thought it would be interesting for a picture to be held up by hands, as if coming through a wall...
Manufacturing Glasses Made Easy: Optics and 3D Printing
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...
Bioprinting a Hand
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...
Self-Replicating Robots, Thanks to 3D Printing
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 continue to...
3d Printing Business News- Makerbot sold for $403 Million
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 Space
Bioprinting, Firearms, and 3D Printing
"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 body part to the...
Bill Maher on 3d Printing
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