Latest 3D printing Stories

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online It’s hard not to see 3D printing as the beginning of a bright new future. The ability to print real, 3D objects from a desktop device is a powerful new force in the way companies deliver products to customers and inventors bring their designs to life. Now, a team of bioengineers and physicians have developed a way to create a real-live human ear with a 3D printer. This ear not only resembles an actual human ear, it’s printed...

Startup FABULONIA unveils today a milestone innovation in 3D printing: designers and companies can now securely monetize online with original 3D designs, tackling piracy without limiting the creative freedom of 3D printing. Barcelona, Spain (PRWEB) February 20, 2013 3D printing is quickly becoming an industrial revolution. However, piracy threatens the livelihood of both professional designers and brands. Illegal design blueprints are being distributed online and a number of...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online 3D printing is on the rise, and the options that this emerging technology allows us to have are endless. Now, a new project by WobbleWorks is trying to get off the Kickstarter ground with a new 3D printing pen. The 3Doodler is a pen that allows you to essentially draw up from a surface and into the air, as if using a pen wasn't limited by the 2 dimensions that paper has to offer. WobbleWorks said on its Kickstarter page that their...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A device capable of quickly manufacturing three-dimensional objects smaller than the diameter of a human hair was recently presented by researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The researchers, who are officially affiliated with KIT spin-off organization Nanoscribe GmbH, demonstrated what they claim is the world’s fastest 3D printer of microstructures and nanostructures at the Photonics West international...

Inkjet and Laser Technologies for Industrial Label Printing Featured Chanhassen, MN (PRWEB) February 06, 2013 AFINIA, a division of Microboards Technology LLC will be showing off the L801 Label Printer at the upcoming West Pack show in Anaheim California, February 12-14 2013, and at Graphics of the Americas show in Orlando Florida, February 21-23 2013.    Based on the market-changing inkjet technology from Memjet , the L801 is positioned to bridge the gap between high...

SANTA FE, N.M., Feb. 6 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sigma Labs, Inc. (OTCBB: SGLB) announced today that it has filed a new provisional patent application that will enable rapid process qualification and part certification for 3D Printing of critical metal parts. Dr. Vivek Dave, Executive Vice President of Sigma Labs, stated that "Metal parts for critical applications in aerospace, defense and biomedical parts require very strict quality control. Additive manufacturing or 3D Printing is a...

MINNEAPOLIS and REHOVOT, Israel, Feb. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Stratasys, Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS), a leading manufacturer of 3D printers and production systems for prototyping and manufacturing, today announced its Objet line of 3D printers has been named a winner in Design World's sixth annual Leadership in Engineering program. Objet-line 3D printing technology was honored in the Digital Manufacturing category. Design World's Leadership in Engineering is an industry recognition program...

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Zebra Imaging, Inc., the world's foremost provider of 3D holographic displays and visualization technologies, announced today that the company is launching a new Web GL integration service that will be available on the Autodesk 123Dapp.com website. The integration will allow 123D users to seamlessly print a 3D holographic display from a 3D model. The relationship further strengthens both Zebra Imaging's and Autodesk's commitment to...

MINNEAPOLIS and REHOVOT, Israel, Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS), a leading manufacturer of 3D printers and production systems for prototyping and manufacturing, reminds students that just one week remains to submit designs for the 2013 Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge. As a new incentive this year, college finalists will have their designs reviewed for possible licensing agreement and commercialization by a major manufacturer in partnership with...

LONDON, January 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- EmergingGrowth.com, a leading digital financial media company, Reports on the Next Hot Technology and 3D Systems, Proto Labs, and Stratasys. One of the highlights of the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was an array of 3-D printing systems. While the concept is not new, dating to the 1980s, it has become increasingly powerful in recent years. Some now feel that it has the ability to fundamentally redefine many aspects of the...