Following the article about the use of 3d printing to help people with foot and ankle issues, another interesting orthopaedic application has been reported by OPS (Objet Printer Solutions), UK earlier this week about a new surgery that could potentially…
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New Micro DSP 3D Printing Solution for the Hearing Aid Market
EnvisionTEC unveiled its latest 3D printing solution for the hearing aid market — the Perfactory® Micro DSP (Digital Shell Printer) — at the EUHA Congress in Frankfurt, Germany. The Micro DSP is the smallest 3D printer in size from EnvisionTEC,…
3D Printed Aid for Orthopaedic Needs
Customisation is one of the primary advantages of 3D printing technology because it adds significant value to the process without incurring additional costs. This is an attractive proposition for many custom consumer goods, but another sector where it makes a…
A Round Up of 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing Developments at the TCTLive Conference
The TCT Live 2012 Conference on Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing turned out to be a milestone for me as it was the last one that I will be involved with organizing — after 16 years there were some very…
3D Printed Microstructures Produced in Seconds
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new process that can fabricate microscale 3D sturctures out of soft biocompatible hydrogels. The aim of this new process is to develop better systems for growing and studying cells,…
Beauty the Bald Eagle’s 3D Printed Beak
3D printing technology provided the solution for Beauty the Bald Eagle, who was shot in the face by poachers and lost her beak. Beauty survived the incident with the help of Birds of Prey Northwest animal rescue centre, but without…
3D Printed Spine
Spinal cord injuries are often permanent and life changing injuries with limited options available for treatment. With the aid of the latest 3D printing technology, a Cambridge (MA) based company InVivo Therapeutics has developed a biocompatible polymer scaffold to provide…
3D printed Exoskeleton arms change the life of a little girl
Stratasys released a heart-melting case study on how 3D printing changed the life of 4-year old Emma Lavelle, by allowing her to use her hands the first time in her life. The researchers at Alfred I. duPont Hospital Children hospital…
Make your own medicine at home
University of Glasgow’s Professor Lee Cronin and his team have conducted a study using a standard 3D printer in order to attain what they call reactionware. The research team have added some chemical components in the main 3D printing foundation…
The big 3D printed niches
Medicine is set to become of the most imminent industries to adopt 3D printing technology across multiple different applications. We have been reading about masses of people wearing a 3D printed hearing aids and dentists making new teeth with less…
