The Museum of Art and Design has chosen Wilfried Vancraen as one of this year’s honourees. The distinguished award is for the decades that Materialise has been working with designers and scientists to…
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Open Source Appliances Declare “There’s Got to Be a Better Way!”
In the 1950s, manufacturers marketed new appliances to make housework easier, to make life easier. Over the years, these appliances proliferated to the point of absurdity (at least in the United Stat…
Printers for Pearce: An Interview with 3D Printers for Peace’s Dr. Joshua Pearce
After realizing that I was seeing the same name at the heads of papers and projects that I was a big fan of – the Open Source Optics Library, 3D Printers for Peace, and a paper on the cost savin…
Aiming for AMAZE-ing Metal 3D Printing
After the opening of its 3 month ‘3D Printing: the Future’ exhibition last week, today saw The London Science Museum host the launch of the AMAZE project, which according to the European Space Agency …
The Potential for W. Afate, the First 3D Printer Created from e-Waste
In May, we covered the story of Afate Gnikou who had taken to resolve the problem of e-waste, created by first world countries and deposited in third world countries, by transforming leftover computer…
Innovation Comes from Europe's Citizens – Dr Anne Stenros
In this contributory post for 3DPI, Ben Deighton, Editor of Horizon Magazine, interviews Dr Anne Stenros, who chaired a group of experts that helped formulate the concept of the EU’s Capital of Innova…
How Does 3D Printing Affect Climate Change?
With the Earth’s atmosphere already well past stable levels of CO2 , it’s vital that we ensure that all new technologies are as efficient and beneficial to the environment as possible so that we don’t…
Anticipating the Inside 3D Printing Event – San Jose
I’ve never been to a conference before. Well, maybe I went to a video game expo when I was a kid (where I got to meet Sonic and Tails). But I definitely haven’t been to a 3D printing conference. An…
Biocompatible 3D Printing Firm Wins Contract from Northrop Grumman
Thanks to a partnership made possible by the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII), the flagship institute for the Obama administration’s National Network for Manufacturin…
3D Printing Gives Electric “Superbike” Energica More Power
I’ve always thought that, in order to make consumers adopt more ecologically sustainable purchasing practices, all that corporations would need to do is effectively market sustainable products. …