Our households are filled with everyday things – inexpensive items, which often also tend to be of poor quality reflecting their low price tags. Thus, they are easily broken and contribute further to …
Creating A Whole Other Dimension – Enabled by 3D Printing
Researchers at MIT have used 3D printing to fabricate a three-dimensional, lightweight metamaterial lens that focuses radio waves with extreme precision. Essentially this is tech geek heaven. Metamate…
'Make it Real' Finalist Proposes 3D Printed Circuit Boards, for Solder-free Printable Electronics
When searching for interesting and novel applications of 3D printing, I came across this project, which was a finalist and runner up in the Instructables “Make it Real” Challenge this year. I found it…
Grand Opening of MakerBot’s NY Store & Another 3D Photo Booth
Don’t know about you, but I have to say that I was under the impression that the Makerbot retail store in New York was open for business and up and running. Regardless, yesterday saw the ‘official’ gr…
Sculpteo Scoops Prestigious Best of Innovations 2013 CES Award for 3DPCase
3DPI reported on the launch of Sculpteo’s 3DPCase mobile application back in September. We liked it then and it looks as though we were not the only ones! The company and the 3DPCase app have been re…
Multithread – 3D Printed Structurally Sustainable Furniture
Multithread is a 3D printing design project from Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram, based on a specifically written software programme that has been developed to fix structural flaws in designed objects…
3D Printing a Vaccine?
The pace at which the 3D printing industry is developing is truly amazing. The range of applications available today is already very impressive and more and more emerge on an almost daily basis. Compa…
NeoReplicants — Current Exhibition Displays 3D Printed Work of 30 Artists
Unique works of art created using 3D Design and 3D Printing equipment at the University of Exeter are on display in an exhibition at the Phoenix Gallery and showcases the diverse potential of the tech…
Anatomica di Revolutis – Amazing 3D Printed Arts Project on Kickstarter
Joshua Harker, the artist behind the most highly funded Kickstarter scuplture project in history – Crania Anatomica – is back with another crowdsourcing-oriented creation called Anatomica di Rev…
Mykita's Laser Sintered Specs – The Mylon Collection
Mykita’s Mylon eyewear collection boasts the beginning of a new niche in the world of shaded specs – customised luxury sports fashion. This new brand is something that is likely to appeal to thi…