In a Snowglobe Advertising agency BBH will create one bespoke snowglobe a day until December 21st through its “Home for Christmas” project, which raises money for the children’s charity Barnardo’s as well as combats homelessness. Each day, a different donor is chosen to receive a snowglobe containing a 3D printed version of their own house with images drawn from Google … Read More
3Dea’s Top Five: A 3D Printed Blossoming Lamp, A Conversation with Shapeways’ CEO And A Lamp That You Can Hang Out With
Makerbot Removes Printable Guns from Thingiverse Days after one of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States’ history, Makerbot has removed many user-uploaded designs for gun parts from its website Thingiverse. The company did not mention the recent Newtown shootings but instead told Forbes that in a review of its website, it was removing items that violated its terms … Read More
3Dea’s Top Five: Printing 3D Organs, The Best Of 2012’s 3D Printers And 3D Printed Cookie Cutters
3D Printing People Well, not quite people. But a team at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is exploring ways to 3D print a kidney. Autodesk, a design and engineering firm, has teamed up with Organovo Holdings, which makes 3D human tissue for research and therapeutics, and are working on designing functional 3D human body parts. It’s sort of … Read More
3Dea’s Top Five: 3D Printing On Mars, For Meat And In Toys
3D Printing is Going to Outer Space NASA’s newest rover includes over 70 3D printed parts. The Desert Research and Technology Studies group (D-RATS) has constructed a SUV-sized rover with 3D printed bumpers, camera mounts, pod doors, and custom fixtures, which has been in the works since 2009. The rover will be manned by two people and can serve as … Read More
3Dea’s Top Five: A Giant Merger, 3D Printing’s Future and 3D Home Printers
Stratasys and Objet Form Behemoth of a 3D Printing Corporation Objet and Stratasys, two 3D printing companies, completed their merger last week and began trading as Stratasys Ltd. on the NASDAQ stock exchange on December 3. The new company’s market capitalization is around $3 billion. Stratasys offers 3D printing solutions and consumer services, while Objet manufactures 3D printers and the … Read More
3DEA’S TOP FIVE: 3D PHOTO BOOTHS, WILL.I.AM’S HEAD AND IMPLANTABLE CARTILAGE
More Than Just Plastic If you have access to a 3D printer, you can now print your own plastic that can conduct electricity! Researchers at the University of Warwick introduced the printable material called “carbomorph,” and have demonstrated that it can be used as a heat sensor in a coffee mug, a flex sensor in a glove and buttons on … Read More
3DEA’S TOP FIVE: SEX TOYS, JAY LENO’S CAR COLLECTION AND STAPLES’ INNOVATIVE MOVE
Print Me a Hot Dog More from Belgium! The plainly named Kiosk carts are modeled after NYC food vendors’ – only with fem European umbrella attachments. The Kiosks build your request on the spot. Print a cab on the spot, why don’t you? Cool Hunting – Josh Rubin Sex Toys From The Comfort Of Your Home VentureBeat’s Ricardo Bilton writes that … Read More