Through the use of 3D printing, product designers can enable the consumer to design their own everyday products thereby creating more meaningful products for people and more value for compan... Read more
Tactile feedback is nothing new It’s been used in telecommunications and in entertainment for decades, and it became a standard feature in the late 1990s in mobile phones and video gam... Read more
Thirty years have passed since 3-D printers first appeared, but only recently have they hinted at a new era of manufacturing. The first working 3-D printer was created in 1984 by Chuck Hull... Read more
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have developed a new and more efficient approach to a challenging problem in additive manufacturing — using selective laser melting,... Read more
We’ve seen more than a few startups cook up their own impressive 3D scanners — there’s Makerbot and its Digitizer, and dark horse Occipital with its mobile Structure sensor just to name a fe... Read more
Digital manufacturing: There is a lot of hype around 3D printing. But it is fast becoming integrated with mainstream manufacturing PEEK through the inspection windows of the nearly 100 three... Read more
FABRICATED: The New World of 3D Printing is a text that works to illuminate 3D printing’s role in undermining the rigidity of manufacturing. This is accomplished by providing an on-demand pr... Read more
We are proud to announce that the Cube 3D Printer is the first 3D printer to be widely available in a major U.S. retailer – Staples! Starting in June 2013 Staples will be introducing the Cub... Read more
Crowd-funding website Kickstarter is being sued for its promotion of a new 3D printer. More than 2,000 users contributed over $2.9m (£1.8m) to help Massachusetts-based Formlabs build the dev... Read more
Is this the future of 3D printing? Cubify robots are snap-together, poseable toys that can be ordered directly or downloaded as files and made by the user. Toys are showing what the market f... Read more
3D printers using the established “kiosk” model that’s been so successful for digital photo printing 3D printing is starting to surf a wave that could take it from a... Read more
As manufacturing goes digital, it will change out of all recognition, says Paul Markillie. And some of the business of making things will return to rich countries OUTSIDE THE SPRAWLING Frank... Read more