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3-D Printing’s Napster Moment

The technology promises a new legal battleground for rights holders, printer developers, and hobbyist figurine makers.

The 9 Best Ideas From CES 2015

These Amazing Prosthetic Hands Were Built By High School Students

Ask a bunch of kids to design technology for disabled people their age and you get an entirely different kind of creative thinking, from a “Swiss Army Hand” to a functional baseball glove.

3-D Printing Cells For Drug Testing Could Keep Animals Out Of Harm’s Way

Using a hacked MakerBot printer, researchers came up with a way to make human cells that work better than animal testing–and don’t need an animal.

A Children’s Book That Is “The Little Prince” Of 3-D Printing

Taking inspiration from Saint-Exupéry, LEO The Maker Prince hopes to inspire a whole new generation of makers.

Microsoft’s First 3-D Printing App Is Made For The Average Joe

MakerBot Launches Mission To Put 3-D Printers In Every U.S. Public School

The MakerBot Academy could put as many as 5,000 printers in public schools by the end of this school year.

McDonald’s Might 3-D Print Your Happy Meal (The Toys, Not The Fries)

No more settling for the toy of the week, kids.

This Cheap Crowdfunded 3-D Scanner Lets You Reproduce Pretty Much Anything

Want to scan in real-life objects and reproduce them on your 3-D printer? An independent Latvian hacker has already beaten bigger industry rivals like MakerBot in the 3-D scanner game with this super-cheap scanner, now being funded on Indiegogo.

Miss Large Format Cameras? Now You Can 3-D Print One

Large format negatives are higher resolution than even the most expensive digital cameras, but expensive out-of-production equipment has made them impractical for hobbyists. Now creating your own low-overhead version is as easy as downloading a schematic from Thingverse.

Print These 20 Things You Don’t Really Need And Your 3-D Printer Pays For Itself

3-D printing technology is nearing at a tipping point that makes it actually affordable–but only if you really need that jewelry organizer or garlic press.

The Programmable Orgasm

Vibease is the latest smart vibrator startup trying to escape the “hardcore” stigma.

9 Ways 3-D Printing Makes The World Better

At last, the oh-cool at-home manufacturing toy turns into an important tool–offering people (and animals) aid on-demand.

Microsoft Makes 3-D Printing As Simple As Clicking “Print”

Windows 8.1 will be the first OS to provide 3-D printers native support. What does that mean to you? The app market is poised for its first 3-D printing explosion.

Stratasys Announces Purchase Of MakerBot

Kickstarting: A Desktop Mill For Carving Your Own Circuit Boards

Because as makers delve into the world of wearable electronics, they’ll want to consider entirely new shapes that the market hasn’t considered yet.

A 3-D Printer For Every Home! (Yeah, Right)

The term “3-D printing” is tossed around by geeks as if it’s going to be a ubiquitous, domestic technology of the future. That’s just silly.

We’re Getting Close To 3-D Printing For Organs

Personal 3-D printing is a beautiful idea that may have gotten its first killer app–saving your life.

5 Innovations That Show Libraries Don’t Have To Die

Sure, the age of browsing for books and checking them out may be coming slowly to a close, but the idea of a library can adapt rather than fade away. These five locations are doing just that.