Meta launches AI Design Tool SAM 3D for Realistic 3D Reconstruction from Single Images
Facebook parent company Meta has introduced SAM 3D, a new technology designed to transform 2D images into highly detailed 3D representations of object…
CARIMATEC’s latest introduced at Formnext 2025 for high-throughput cell printing
South Korean manufacturer CARIMATEC introduced its DLP-based bioprinting system at Formnext 2025, that prints living cells directly onto glass slides …
Renishaw and Tekna develop titanium powders
Renishaw, a UK-based engineering technology company specializing in metrology and additive manufacturing systems, has partnered with Tekna, a Canadian materials producer, to make titanium 3D printing …
FormLabs Announces $19 Million Funding Round “To Disrupt 3D Printing”
It seems the current name of the game is full on disruption, what with Arburg and now HP throwing their hats into the 3D printing industry ring. One company that has form when it comes to upsetting th…
A 3D Printed Lithophane Service from 3Distributed
When I covered new start up company, 3Distributed, back in August there were hints of more, as then undisclosed, things to come. Andy Shepherd-Waring has been to touch to say that one of those things …
HP 3DP?
HP’s CEO Meg Whitman recently made a breakthrough, potentially paradigm changing announcement at the Canalys Channels Forum in Bangkok: “We are excited about 3D printing… we want to …
Is the Nat.Net 3D Molecular Printer a Real Thing?
Have you heard of Nat.Net? It seems like you probably should have – or, at least, I should have – by now. This is because Nat.Net is a company that claims to have reached the Holy Grail of…
3D Printing for Consumers Courtesy of the Ol’ Brick-N-Mortar
Finally, 3D printing for consumers is getting everywhere! Last year around this time, Rachel predicted the growth of brick-n-mortar 3D printing stores, both 3D printer retailers and 3D printing servic…
3D Printing a Gun — Hardly Elementary!
With the general media attention that 3D printing has received over the last 18 months or so a natural progression is for it to filter through to popular culture and hit our TV screens. And that is pr…
The App World Welcomes the iOS App from MakerBot and Thingiverse.
Our phones and interfaces close in on science fiction, sliding fingers across our phones like Tom Cruise in “Minority Report” (disclaimer: bloodless gunshot on screen), surfing through apps. With the …
Hastest Solutions Open House for Environmental Product Testing in Silicon Valley
As 3D printing expands its influence in the Silicon Valley, with local companies turning to the technology for prototyping and manufacturing, it will become necessary to test 3D printed products under…
Voxeljet's Post IPO Bubble?
Investors who had not joined the 3D printing frenzy with small cap 3D printer stocks such as ARCAM AB ORD (OTCMKTS:AMAVF) or ExOne Co (NASDAQ: XONE), or mid caps 3D Systems Corporation (NYSE: DDD) and…
Stratasys Buys Out Japanese Partner Fasotec
Stratasys is quickly trying to establish a firm foundation in the Asia-Pacific region. After doing a significant amount of business in China, approximately a quarter of their sales, and opening an off…
Selfies at Selfridges — Courtesy of iMakr
Today marks the grand opening of iMakr at Selfridges, bringing 3D printing and 3D printed products to London’s most famous high street — Oxford Street. The 3D printing pop-up store within Selfridges, …
Dressing for Volkswagen — A 3D Printed Smoke Dress You Kind of Have to See to Believe
The latest statement in 3D printed fashion is another dress, but it’s one of those ‘things’ that make you look, look again and then look some more. At least that’s how it was for me when Vanessa Palse…






