If a company has Disrupt in its name, you can bet that its product will have something to do with 3D printing, which is potentially the most disruptive manufacturing technology invented since fire. If it turns out that that company…
Polish Pirx3D Shuts Down Due to Inability to Create Full-Color FDM 3D Printer
Full color 3D printing in FDM technology is the Holy Grail for 3D printers manufacturers around the globe. Many have tried; unfortunately, none has achieved anything more than a symbolic minute of fame when announcing the start of their work…
3DNA Printing: Researchers Program DNA to Automatically Fold into 3D Objects
If physics is a printer management software and the Universe is the printer, you might say that creation itself is the act of 3D printing. Would that make DNA the gCode with which organisms are created? Perhaps the analogy is…
Lifted Innovations Takes Bong 3D Printing to New Highs
Marijuana market research firm ArcView Group has estimated that the marijuana market was worth $2.7 billion in 2014, an increase of 74% from the year before, while Wohlers estimates that the 3D printing market, which hit $4 billion in 2014,…
German RepRap Jumps Onto the Carbon Fiber Filament Train
After Proto Pasta, which was the first high profile company to reach the market with a 15% carbon fiber reinforced PLA filament, and colorFabb, which followed earlier this year with its 20% carbon fiber-XT blend, it is now German RepRap‘s turn…
MakerBot Focuses on QA with New 3D Printer Factory in Brooklyn
MakerBot has been going through a lot of growing pains lately, given the lawsuit against its parent company and low stock numbers. After the closure of the brand’s retail shops and letting go of a fifth of the company’s workforce,…
Korean Printer Manufacturer Rokit Preps Launch into Bioprinting
Korean 3D printer manufacturer Rokit is already raising a ruckus for their multi-material Edison 3D printer. And their charismatic CEO, Yoo Seok-hwan, has already begun making inroads with the country’s government. Both their multimaterial printing and government relationship have paid…
Young Nuclear Physicist Builds Geiger Counter with 3D Printed Parts
Conrad Farnsworth originally from Wyoming made headlines back in 2011 when, as a 17 year old, he built a nuclear fusion reactor in his garage and posted the process in a YouTube video. Since then, he has graduated high school…
Augmented Reality & 3D Printing Bring Sight & Touch to Sound
What’s your totem? A group of engineers and designers at REIFY have created 3D printed “sound sculptures” encoded with music and visuals that play on mobile devices. On their Kickstarter, REIFY calls these totems “cross-sensory experiences,” and says that the idea…
3D Printed City Makes Anki Racing Game Even Cooler Than It Already Is
Some games are just born cool. Anki Drive – now upgraded to Anki Overdrive with a new track and models being presented at the New York Toy Fair – is one of those. For most of us, the very first…
