On Thursday Shapeways opened its Factory of the Future, citing plans of bringing manufacturing back to the western world enabled by 3D printing. The manufacturing site located in Long Island City, NY,…
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Autodesk 123D Catch Scanner App for iPhone
Something for the weekend: If you haven’t seen the Autodesk 123D Catch for iPhone in action, below is a cool video presentation illustrating how it works. While there is still room for improvement, it…
Making Multi-colour Art Prints on a Hobbyist 3D Printer
Andre Tiemann, a 3D printing enthusiast from Toronto, was faced with a problem when asked to 3D print a university logo. He wanted to use three colours, but his MakerBot Replicator could only print tw…
The Era of the 'Prosumer' & 3D Printing
“Prosumer” — Anyone following the 3D printing industry will have heard that term a lot lately, especially around the recent launches of MakerBot’s Replicator 2 and Formlabs’ Form 1 3D prin…
Original 3D Printed Art Via Polychemy
The online consumer market for 3D printed goods is continuing to evolve, with more and more channels offering the key advantages that this technology offers a discerning clientele, namely stunning vis…
3D Printing Does Retro — Check Out the Bioscope
A novel 3D printing application has been highlighted by i.materialise in the last 24 hours. The Bioscope is the brainchild of independent designers Simon de Bakker and Jon Stam and it is retro cool. …
If a 3D Photo of your Unborn Baby isn’t good enough – how about a 3D printed model?
Mashable has produced a fascinating video insight into how a Japanese company has come up with the ultimate in anti-natal keepsakes — an intricate, and precise, 3D printed model of your unborn baby. M…
Shapeways' WoW-Minecraft 3D Printing Contest
What could be better for a gaming aficionado than spending some quality time with two of the most defining (pas)time thieves of this century – World of Warcraft and Minecraft? I have an answer — to co…
Selassi – 3D Printing “Nurtures” Amazing Consumer Products
Selassi is a bright new lighting and homeware brand that showcases unrestrained and beautiful design enabled by the production medium of 3D printing technologies. James Pryor the designer behind the q…
3D Printable Headphone Design Experiment
John Mabry at Teague Labs has been experimenting with 3D printing and consumer electronics. Named after the print time of the product, the project — 13:30 — is a set of fully functioning 3D printed he…