Bitcoin, 3-D printed candy and George Takei, the Star Trek-actor-turned-Facebook-phenomenon, are among the attractions this week at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, where the geek set is slowly filing out to make room for ...
Tags: Microsoft, digital currency, technology
Cross section of bioprinted human liver tissue showing hepatocytes (blue nuclei), endothelial cells (red), and hepatic stellate cells (green). (Courtesy Organovo Holdings Inc.) The discovery that living tissues could be built up using a ...
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Karim Rashid has teamed up with Leapfrog for a 3-D printer that will produce seven of the designer’s own original works. The project is the first in the 3-D printer manufacturer’s upcoming series of designer collaborations and ...
Tags: 3-D Printer, ability to create complex patterns and structures
The 2014 CES will be remembered as the year when 3-D printing arrived. Sure, there were plenty of grizzled veterans around who were willing to point out, as 3-D Systems' Avi Reichental did, that "3-D printing is an overnight success 30 ...
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Some of the oddest items on display this week at the International CES gadget show were edible, origami-like sculptures made of sugar, their shapes so convoluted as to baffle the eye. The treats are one of many signs that we'll all be ...
The 2014 CES will be remembered as the year when 3-D printing arrived. Sure, there were plenty of grizzled veterans around who were willing to point out, as 3-D Systems' Avi Reichental did, that "3-D printing is an overnight success 30 ...
Tags: 3-D Printing, Printing, Packaging
A loudspeaker playing a clip of President Barack Obama talking about 3-D printing in his State of the Union speech might not seem so remarkable—except that the loudspeaker represents one of the first 3-D printed consumer electronic ...
Posted in Cardiovascular by Qmed Staff on November 22, 2013 Researchers at the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute hope to create a 3-D-printed bioartificial heart in the next decade. The bioartificial heart would be designed from a ...
Printing an object in three-dimensional form, called 3-D printing, has been around since the 1980s. But it has received more attention lately because of the materials now used for printing, along with a concurrent price drop for 3-D ...
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A biological 3-D printer can be used to "custom print" a replacement body part, according to University of Nottingham research recently recounted in Forbes. A patient's own cells, for example, can be used to print replacement material for ...
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3-D printer company Stratasys is acquiring desktop 3-D printer maker MakerBot for over $400 million in an all-stock deal, to shore up its consumer presence. Privately-held MakerBot has sold more than 22,000 3-D printers since it was ...
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INVISALIGN, a San Jose company, uses 3-D printing to make each mouthful of customised, transparent braces. Mackenzies Chocolates, a confectioner in Santa Cruz, uses a 3-D printer to pump out chocolate molds. And earlier this year, Cornell ...
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Northbrook Public Library's summer program has been revised to promote children's creativity and as part of the effort is asking for donations of constructive toys. "Game Outside the Box" is for children of all ages interested in science, ...
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When industrial designer Samuel Bernier moved into his new apartment he was faced with a mass of furniture including a broken Ikea lamp that was left there by the previous tenant. When searching for a new shade to replace the tattered and ...
Tags: Ikea lamp, IKEA, lamp, incandescent bulbs