FCA US has employed 3-D printing technology at its Chrysler Technology Center to accelerate developing vehicle axles. Using the technology, FCA US engineers have created transparent plastic components for virtual analysis of fluid flow ...
Tags: 3-D Printing, Chrysler Technology Center, vehicle axles
To succeed, electronics manufacturers need to stay ahead of quickly accelerating technology trends. To find out how this acceleration in high-tech manufacturing is affecting TE Connectivity’s supply chain planning, we interviewed Jim ...
Tags: network, advanced product, Electrical
It's too early to tell, but the total artificial heart might be the next potential medtech goldmine. Shares of artificial heart maker Carmat climbed nearly 20% in mid-day trading on September 5 amidst recently-confirmed rumors that the ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Artificial hearts
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
MIT Media Lab alumna and entrepreneur Ayah Bdeir SM '06 wants to help all people worldwide, tech savvy or not, understand and build creatively with electronics. It's the ambitious mission powering her fast-growing startup littleBits, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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: CES 2014, 3-D Printing, CES 2014 Trends
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 ...
As 3-D printing proudly enters the front door at CES 2014, 3-D TV is quietly being ushered out the back. The technology is still offered as a feature in most lines of high-end sets that already have it, but after years of relentless ...
Tags: CES, 3-D printing, 3-D TV, 3-D headset
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
Throughout this week, our reporters will cover the best emerging technology and trends from Las Vegas. Meet the team and see what topics they'll be tracking at the show: 3-D Printing Is this the year 3-D manufacturing breaks out of its ...
Tags: CES, best emerging technology, topics
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 ...
Imagine that you have to build a diorama of a famous Civil War battle for a project at school, but instead of hand-made, you just go to a print shop, enter the measurements you want the model components to be, and print all the soldiers, ...
Tags: 3D printer, printer, introduce
Posted in Printing Equipment and Supplies by Qmed Staff on November 25, 2013 Innovations in 3-D printing have allowed researchers to fabricate human bones, ears, early-prototype human hearts, strips of liver and face prosthetics. In the ...
The Norcross, Ga.-based Technical Association for the Pulp, Paper, Packaging and Converting Industries (TAPPI) has issued a call for 300-word abstracts for presentations to be given at the 2014 TAPPI International Conference on ...
Tags: TAPPI, issue, Nanotechnology
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 ...