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Potential Home Metal 3D Printer: The Vader
The New York Maker Faire 2013 bore witness to a very promising home metal 3D printer. This Liquid Metal Jet printer goes by the name of Vader. The Vader metal 3D printer is created by father-and-son m…



6-axis 3D Printer From the University of Southern California
A team from the University of Southern California is working on developing a low-cost parallel kinematic machine for multi-direction additive manufacturing. In this video you can see their 6-axis 3D P…



3D Printing Breakthrough Yields Organic and Inorganic Multimaterial Vista Printhead
The Technology Partnership (TTP) has just announced a new development that promises to change the shape of the 3D printing industry: a multi-material 3D printer head called Vista. TTP’s Vista reporte…



What 3D Printing Could Mean for China
In June, the South China Morning Post reported that billionaire Terry Gou called 3D printing technologies “a gimmick.” As the founder of the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics – Foxc…



Funding to Explore & Develop 4D Printing Materials
Researchers at Harvard SEAS, the University of Illinois and the University of Pittsburgh have received a USD$855,000 grant from the United States Army Research Office to further look into and develop …



3-Sweep Sweeps the Net with Smart 2D to 3D Conversion
Blowing up across the 3D printing Internet last week was the following video, which demonstrated a software with the ability to convert 2D photographs into complete 3D models, possibly opening up a wh…



Tom’s Guide to Best 3D Printers of 2013
Last week, Richard Baguley (the bagel-iest of the Richards) at Tom’s Guide wrote up a brief review of some of the latest home 3D printers on the market. I still haven’t gotten a chance to see all of t…



Blizzident: An All Mouth Toothbrush that Looks like a Muppet
Brushing your teeth is the pits! It takes almost a whole three minutes and you have to painstakingly rub the bristles over each individual tooth until every single one is clean, right? Wrong! Now, wi…



3D-Printed Metal Sculptures and the Search for Utopia
Ioan Florea’s artwork is very large because his concerns are very large. In July, we covered the artist’s tactile paintings, paint combined with 3D printed elements to form abstractions over 6 feet in…



Review: Inside 3D Printing, Singapore
My first trip to Asia saw me boarding a plane bound for Singapore, from Manchester, via London Heathrow — a 24 hour journey (including airport time) from door to door. The unknown was a little dauntin…