New Industrial Revolution

09/02/2014

What's the difference between a traditional supply chain and a 3D printing supply chain? This infographic shows just how local manufacturing hubs will change the global supply chain as we know it.

Manufacturing is changing fast. As the pace of evolution quickens, it is creating new demands for real estate that can serve the emerging needs of new forms and locations for manufacturers along with associated suppliers and logistics.

07/12/2013

3D printed failures make beautiful art.

3D printing is used in exceptional inventions -- but that doesn't mean mistakes are not made along the way.

12/11/2013

"The EX¹ makes printing circuits as quick and easy as printing a photo - allowing you to print on the material of your choice."

The EX¹ makes printing circuits as quick and easy as printing a photo - allowing you to print on the material of your choice.

09/11/2013

Never fear,
when losing a ear,
For cheap replacements are now here.

Fripp Design has developed a system for fast and low-cost manufacture of facial prostheses such as nose and ear replacements for accident victims using 3D printing.

06/11/2013

No longer need you be afraid of an unintended party stealing that 3D model you worked hours on.

Matthew Plummer-Fernandez has developed software that allows users to visually corrupt 3D-print files so they can't be recognised on file-sharing sites.

24/10/2013

Get ready to save all that time cooking by printing your own food courtesy of this startup from Barcelona. Think of what you can do with an extra hour a day.

Natural Machines is developing a 3D printer that will allow you to print your own food, and it can be used to turn fresh ingredients into finished edible objects such as cakes and ravioli.

18/09/2013

The retail stores of tomorrow will be more than racks of mass-produced objects for sale. Instead, 3D scanning and printing will enable consumers to customise and personalise purchases. This sounds exciting and will go a long way to cutting down our waste of materials and resources, wouldn't you agree?

Today's retail world is one-size-fits-all, said Isaac Katz at the Inside 3D Printing show in San Jose, whereas tomorrow is all-for-one and uses 3D printing.

11/09/2013

This software takes a single photo and coverts the object into a 3D file, allowing you to edit the object by duplicating, scaling and manipulating parts of the object within the photo itself as a 3D object. Simply amazing!

by Tao Chen · Zhe Zhu · Ariel Shamir · Shi-Min Hu · Daniel Cohen-Or

28/08/2013

"Made in Korea" 3D Printer

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27/08/2013

It is exciting to see how personal desktop manufacturing evolve from just additive manufacturing to include not only that, but also subtractive manufacturing and 3D scanning all in one machine. Go back this indiegogo project right here.

FABtotum - the Multipurpose Open Source Low Cost Personal Fabricator. Scan, 3D Print, Cut/Mill. A seamless interaction between the digital and physical world.

16/08/2013

Can't wait to see how awesome this is will be.

Spotted this over at our sister site Gizmodo and just had to share since everyone and their dog’s uncle bob seems to love Game of Thrones. You ...

10/08/2013

See how the different 3D printers available to the consumer market are rated and how they compare to each other.