Siemens launches its new AI-powered assistant for industrial engineering
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! Industrial manufacturing firm Siemens has unv…
Optimizing 3D printing performance with Bondtech’s Core Heating Technology
Core Heating Technology (CHT) from Bondtech, the Swedish manufacturer of world-leading filament feeders, increases 3D printing speeds by over 30%. CHT…
Materialise adds novel AM materials to its portfolio
Belgian 3D printing company Materialise has introduced three new materials to its AM portfolio. These materials include Polyamide 12S (PA 12S), Polyamide 11 (PA 11) for Multi Jet Fusion, and Carbon Fi…
Customizable 3D Printed Jewelry from Zazzy is Back
Almost a year ago, I wrote about a site for customizable 3D printed jewelry called Zazzy. Back then, Zazzy was only in beta, but I was able to play around with the 3D printed bracelets the company wa…
Meshmixer Adds Type A Machines 3D Printers to Compatibility List
In the past year, Adobe has entered hesitantly into the 3D printing industry by offering 3D printing extensions to its Photoshop CC software, allowing users to format and send CAD files directly to 3D…
Sciaky's Giant 3D Metal Printers Available for Sale
Attending a couple of 3D printing events directed at the aerospace and defense industries, I heard from Lockheed Martin representatives that had been working with additive manufacturing for some time.…
MakerBot: TakerBot or Give-A-Lot?
China is a country that is renown for its manufacturing capacity. It is also a country of disproportionately much lower innovation than other economies with large manufacturing output. The cloning of …
3D Printed FingerReader Ring Will Help the Visually Impaired “Rule” Over All Written Text
There is a lab at MIT where they get to play with all the coolest and newest devices: AR tablets, Oculus Rift, Google Glass and lots of 3D printing — all used to find new ways for us to communicate wi…
Save Your Lens: OpenReflex Camera Available And Ready to Upgrade with Financial Support
Open to funding on Kisskissbankbank, a European crowd funding site, a DIY 3D printed camera, OpenReflex, promises to allow users to recycle their lens(es). As of now, the initial version is available …
Designers Create Removable 3D Printed Eyewear Accessories
Hoet Design Studios’ new line of sunglasses uses a 3D printed clip system to hold them together, allowing the wearer to remove and replace various decorative accents. When designer Dieke Hoet designed…
Shapeways Winners Produce Winning 3D Printing Marketing Tool
There’s hardly anything we humans like as much as a highly public, audience-drawing, skill-spotlighting, award-presenting contest — especially if we’re among the baying contestants. Each of us with a …
Q3D has Sold 1000 3D printing units. Will Colour Frames Help Sell 1000 More?
One thousand units in less than two years of operations may not be mass market numbers but when you add up all the small companies selling around these numbers of their 3D printing systems it appears …
Get Custom 3D Printed Characters from Cut The Rope & other Mobile Games with Toyze App
A new mobile app called Toyze will allow mobile gamers to create custom figures of their favourite mobile games using 3D printing. The popular game Cut the Rope is their first licensed property, with …
Talking of …. 3D Printing Vernacular
My time at the Nottingham International Conference on AM and 3DP this week included not a few conversations about the general technology terminology surrounding the 3D printing industry. According to…
The European 3D Printer Race: German RepRap’s New Software
Europe has seen a new wave of desktop 3D printer manufacturers gaining relatively large funding and developing strong expansion plans this year: Could Zmorph, Zortrax, Ion Core, Leapfrog and co now be…