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THE NEXT TRILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY: 3D Printing (ADSK, TDSC, HPQ, GOOG)
To hear enthusiasts tell it, the technique of additive manufacturing, better known as 3D printing, has the potential to change not just manufacturing, but the world. 3D printing today makes...
View ArticleInside MakerBot: The Brooklyn Startup Bringing 3D Printing To The Masses
Bre Pettis, a former schoolteacher, and his co-founders Adam Mayer and Zach Smith started MakerBot Industries in 2009 with the hope of making 3D printing more accessible. They created a 3D desktop...
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MakerBot Has The Coolest Office We've Seen In A Long Time
Bre Pettis profoundly believes that 3D printing can make the world a better place. And after talking to him, it's hard not to leave feeling the same way. The key is how it lets you experiment in the...
View ArticleThe Future Will Be Printed In 3-D
The house of the future will be outfitted with hundreds of products created on 3-D printers, everything from jewelry and cups to home decor items and eventually more complex items like furniture or...
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INFOGRAPHIC: How 3D Printing Works
3D printing was once a very expensive process. (Think tens of thousands of dollars.) But lately the technology has become cheaper and consumerized thanks to companies like MakerBot, which sells 3D...
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The World's First Electric Vehicle Made Of 3D Printed Parts Is Remarkably Fast
The claim that 3D printing is the next trillion dollar industry is backed up by the results of last month's Formula Student 2012, the annual event that challenges engineering students to build and...
View ArticleThe new industrial revolution
This weekend, in New York, tinkerers and hackers assembled to trade tips and show off their latest tricks at the World’s Maker’s Faire. This is only the latest in a series of events that are...
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3D Printing Is The New Personal Computing
The similarities between the early era of personal computing and the current state of 3D printing are huge. When personal computing was in its salad days in the late 1970s, it was a fringe interest...
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In The Future, You Might Be Able To Print Vaccines
We could one day stop an epidemic in its tracks by downloading a file and printing our own vaccines, avoiding a Contagion-like epidemic, if Craig Venter's vision of the future comes to pass. Venter...
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Wow! Formlabs Has Raised Almost $3 Million On Kickstarter
A group of MIT researchers making the first affordable, laser-equipped 3D printer have raised $2.8 milion dollars on Kickstarter. That's a new record for the crowdfunding site, beating the previous...
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Meet The Future Of 3D Printing
3D printing is a process by which a machine shapes plastic into an object by laying down plastic one layer at a time. The potential here is huge – any object you can design using computer software can...
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GE Is So Stoked About 3D Printing, They're Using It To Make Parts For Jet...
CONFIRMATION as to how seriously some companies are taking additive manufacturing, popularly known as 3D printing, came on November 20th when GE Aviation, part of the world’s biggest manufacturing...
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TERRIFYING: Soon People Will Print Working Plastic Guns From Home
Defense Distributed, an organization offering designs for guns that can be manufactured at home using increasingly cheap devices known as 3D printers, will likely start testing prototypes before the...
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The Morality Of Making Guns On A 3D Printer
By now you've probably heard about Defense Distributed, a Texas organization that aims to distribute files for making firearms on professional-grade 3D printers.The group also intends to scale these...
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If Printrbot's Latest Campaign Takes Off, Shop Class Will Never Be The Same
Building on its commitment to education, Printrbot has launched a campaign on the Kickstarter fundraising site to help bring its 3D printers to schools and consumers at the same time.3D printers are...
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Staples Will Offer In-Store 3D Printing (SPLS)
Staples, the ubiquitous office supply store and print shop, will expand to offer in-store 3D printing services, reports The Register.The service will be called "Staples Easy 3D." Customers will upload...
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Here's Why Wired's Former Editor Thinks 3D Printing Is More Than Just A Fad
The following is an excerpt from Chris Anderson's upcoming book "Makers," and appears here with permission, Copyright (c) Chris Anderson, 2012. Published by Crown Business, an imprint of the Crown...
View Article'Gun' 'Control'
The tech industry cheerleads the displacement and reconfiguration of huge institutions like the music industry and telecoms. The arms industry shares many of the attributes of those industries, and is...
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FINALLY SOME SENSE: A 3D Printing Heavyweight Decides It's Not Necessary To...
We've previously reported on Defense Distributed, an organization that seeks to design and print fully-functional guns using 3D printers and share the digital files for them so others can do the...
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Now Anyone Can Use 3D Printing To Make Money
Peter Weijmarshausen runs Shapeways, an innovative manufacturing company that has been around since 2007. Shapeways is unique because it uses 3D printing to allow anyone to create a custom-designed...
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