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3D-Printed ‘Descendants’ Art Collection to Open in Germany

Artist and designer Daniel Widrig is collaborating with Stratasys to create a futuristic 3D- printed art collection. The collection, entitled “Descendants,” is due to be unveiled at the upcoming “GLOBALE: Exo-Evolution” exhibition, which will be held at ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, opening on Friday, Oct. 30. Exploring a futuristic context…

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First Commercial Blood Vessel Bioprinter Unveiled in China

There may be another machine to add to our list of top 10 bioprinters on the market, or in development.  And this one could prove to be more important than all of the rest, as Revotek, the Chinese company behind the technology, claims that their new bioprinter is capable of 3D print blood vessels, a missing key…

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Designer Shapes 3D Printed Architecture with GPU Computing

After completing his training in Istanbul a half-dozen years ago, Daghan Cam, now a teaching fellow at the University College London’s Bartlett School of Architecture, came to England to combine architecture-driven algorithmic designs with 3D printing technology. Cam has geared his talent and knowledge towards manufacturing architecture as art, focusing on implementing complex and abstract…

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Z-FRIDGE Design Wins Zortrax M200 3D Printer

To promote the launch of the new Z-Suite software for Zortrax 3D printers, the Polish company has introduced its own library of projects and models. This contains advanced models, such as the robotic arm that Zortrax’s machines can 3D print with relative ease. Furthermore, in order to rapidly expand the number of 3D models available, Zortrax launched…

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Novabeans Designs and 3D-Prints Customized Silicon Ear for Child

  Novabeans announced that it has been working with local otorhinolaryngologist doctors (ENT specialists) in India to 3D-print an exact customized silicon ear for a child from a very poor family who lost his left side ear in an accident and whose family could not afford expensive cosmetic surgery. Novabeans engineers used a 3D scanner…

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The Dobot Kickstarter Campaign Offers Free 3D Printing Pen

Recently a Kickstarter campaign called “Dobot”(Robot Arm) catches people’s eyes. The people who invented the “Dobot: Robotic Arm for Everyone, Arduino and Open Source” wanted to raise a mere $36,000 by November 4, 2015, and guess what happened? With 15 more days to go they have raised a whopping 982% of their funding goal! That’s $353,599 (and counting)…

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Red Cross Hosts $50K Makeathon to Aid the Disabled Worldwide

While an increasing number of organizations and individuals are popping up to aid those with disabilities in obtaining low-cost assistive devices, there really can never be too many, as approximately one billion people across the globe live with some type of disability, making up the world’s largest minority population. And, of those one billion people,…