Rapid identification of infectious disease outbreaks can be vital in limiting damage and coordinating an appropriate response. While modern drugs can combat many of these diseases, in developing count…
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A 3D printed mask for Björk
Björk will be adorned in 3D printed attire for her upcoming digital shows as well as a live event in Australia. Inspired by Björk’s most recent album, ‘Vulnicura‘, Neri Oxman and her team …
3D printing, the answer to recycling
3D printing has always had a very long list of materials to work with, now even more so what with all the different technologies being developed. The ability to work with metal alloys, numerous kinds …
The Added Value: 3D Printing Brings Much More Than Cheaper Manufacturing
We are bombarded with information about3D printing. New printers, novel printing materials and applications abound. What is lost in this flood of information is an important aspect of additive manufac…
Neri Oxman Tells Davos Conference that 3D Printing is Key to Saving the World
The annual World Economic Forum is under way in Davos, Switzerland, for the 55th year since its foundation. Here, the world’s foremost political and economic leaders sit down and discuss how to split …
Decolonizing the Female Body with the Bio-Hacking of GynePunk
Hailing from the west Catalonian hills, within the ‘hacker monastery’ Calafou (self-described as a“postcapitalist ecoindustrial colony”), feminist bio-hacking collective GynePunk has come to dismantle…
Oxman Revolutionizes Biomanufacturing with Living, 3D Printed Wearable
If a MakerBot Replicator 3D printer can be used in pharmacological research labs for advances studies on how to administer cancer fighting drugs, then it should be no surprise that the Object 500 Conn…
3D Printing Low-Cost Tools for Organic Farmers in the Developing World
The lab of Michigan Tech’s Dr. Joshua Pearce is one of the most admirable 3D printing-related research outfits that I’m familiar with. If the Pearce Research Group isn’t proving jus…
3D Printed Flowers Cross Pollinate Ecological Research at UW
One of the first 3D printing projects my designer friends (and 3D printing gurus) at Growthobjects ever worked on, back in 2007, was a special set of 3D printed flowers with Braille words written on t…
Unexpected 3D Printing Partnership Leads to Tactile Sheet Music for Blind Musicians
In 2012 when the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Mechanical Engineering Department was gifted a new Sinterstation 2500 selective laser sintering 3D printer it didn’t take long for the machine to …