We're slowly moving to a world where printing 3-D objects will be common. At which point one could steal real-object IP as well as movies and music. READ»
If you could design your own flavored beverage online, then click to have it "printed out," would you? How about if you could share it and earn a part of the profits? Welcome to uFlavor's app-like drinkable future.READ»
Arrive at the hospital with a broken leg and have a repair printed out by your bedside, allowing your bone to heal much faster than in a cast. It's way closer to happening than you might imagine.READ»
The 3-D printed monstrosity of a giant arachnid is designed to venture into dangerous places--like the aftermath of a nuclear accident--where humans can't go. It's more 'Charlotte's Web' than 'Arachnophobia.'READ»
I had a couple of pet hermit crabs when I was a kid, which were just about the awesome-est pets that a preteen boy could want: They're friendly, they're alien-looking, they make moms and sisters squeal. But they were also strangely ...READ»
A couple years ago, industrial-design student David Minich went shopping for eyeglasses, but couldn’t find anything he liked. So he vowed to design his own. “I had already used 3-D printing at school,” he tells Co.Design. “So ...READ»
Scientists employ all sorts of techniques to introduce us to extinct animals in the context of a museum, but for the most part, those techniques are largely visual. We usually don't get to learn how they smelled, for example, or how ...READ»
It’s tough to find a product that at once appeals to science nerds and design snobs, but we think we’ve hit on just the thing: Hyphae, a new series of algorithmically generated lights by Nervous System, a Massachusetts design ...READ»
Three-dimensional printing has gained steam in recent years, with designers and artists seizing the technology to fabricate everything from plastic trinkets and jewelry to coffeepots and cell phones. But wouldn’t all those things be ...READ»
3-D printing was supposed to liberate the masses to become product designers -- design to object, one step, no fuss and no muss. Unfortunately, as Technology Review bluntly puts it, "the reality is that if you want to make anything ...READ»
When you were a kid, maybe you built a parabolic solar cooker as a science project and thought you were pretty hot stuff. (Zing!) Markus Kayser, who is not a kid but clearly has the lateral-thinking skills of one, did something much ...READ»
If you hear "maker culture" and instantly think of grease-stained weirdos who drone on about steampunk and "screws not glue"... well, you wouldn't be wrong. But when a giant software company like Autodesk throws its weight behind ...READ»
Online rapid-prototyping giant Shapeways has announced the results of its ICFF '11 Design Contest, a competition for the best 3-D printed contemporary furniture or product design (which we co-judged). The winner is an elegant little ...READ»
Used to be, if you wanted to make a detailed shape out of wood -- for a nice little fruit bowl, say -- you had to carve it by hand using a big chunk of timber, which is a.) time-consuming b.) expensive and c.) bad for the environment. ...READ»
3-D printing has spawned a small, passionate hacker/hobbyist community that not only designs and prints objects, but plays off each others' work, creating a tangible new dimension in Internet memes. READ»
Dr. Anthony Atala, a regenerative medicine specialist at Wake Forest University, is pioneering the use of printing techniques to reconstruct and repair human flesh and organs.READ»
To paraphrase Justin Timberlake: driving a European supercar in a videogame isn't cool. You know what's cool? Driving that same European supercar in real life. The Citroën GT only existed in the virtual streets of the Playstation ...READ»
