Autodesk has made a stunning announcement that creates free* access to its leading design software to over half a BILLION students and educators across almost a million global educational faculties. T…
Executive Director of European Optical Society joins LUXeXcel Group
LUXeXcel Group, inventors of a process called Printoptical Technology for 3D printed lenses and optics components has announced the appointment of Professor Jyrki Saarinen as a Member of its Superviso…
2015 Prism Awards — Additive Manufacturing Category Finalists Announced
The 2015 Prism Awards for optical technologies are about to reach their final stages. In the Additive Manufacturing category FEMTOprint’s FEMTOprint technology, LUXeXcel’s Printoptical technology and …
NightHawk: Award Winning Headphone With 3D Printed Part
“When we decided to build NightHawk, we knew it had to be something special—it had to have a real reason to exist because no one needs another ordinary headphone.”Skylar Gray, headphones Designer &…
BigRep Receives Significant Funding For The 1.3 m³ Build Volume 3D Printer
There are a growing number of large-scale RepRap derivative FFF 3D printers. The company behind one of the best-of-this-particular-bunch of industrial scale machines, Berlin-based BigRep, has just rec…
3D Printed Google Glass Artwork & The Sense Of Self
Where does the sense of self begin and end in a world where the digital and the physical are increasingly intrinsically interlinked? There have been cultures where the act of having a photograph taken…
Pinć: 3D Printed Virtual Reality Case
Pinć is a 3D printed virtual reality (VR) case for the Apple iPhone 6 that uses clip-on finger sensors as an interactive interface, just one of the many such headsets currently in development. See, t…
Smit Röntgen & EOS Start Mass Production of 3D Printed Tungsten
Philips brand Smit Röntgen has announced that it is now the first company to offer additive manufactured Tungsten parts. The medical imaging component manufacturer is using Powder Bed Laser Melting to…
Robox Printer Makes Yahoo Best Tech Gifts 2014
Among technological delights such as the Sony PlayStation 4 and Apple’s iPhone 6, the Yahoo! Christmas Gift Guide 2014: Best Tech Gifts also lists the CEL Robox 3D Printer. Indeed, it is first on Yaho…
Online 3D Printing Marketplace 3Discovered Secure Further Investment
Chicago-based start-up 3Discovered — an online marketplace connecting product design owners, customers, and 3D printing service bureaus for commercial-grade 3D design-for-print — has successfully clo…