Archive for the ‘3D printing’ category: Page 106
May 25, 2016
Israeli firms develop high-speed 3D printer for stem cells
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical
3D Stem Cells — definitely makes sense given the organ, skin graffe, etc. produce on 3D printers in today’s labs.
JERUSALEM – Israeli 3D printer firm Nano Dimension has successfully lab-tested a 3D bioprinter for stem cells, paving the way for the potential printing of large tissues and organs, the company said on Wednesday.
While 3D printers are used already to create stem cells for research, Nano Dimension said the trial, conducted with Israeli biotech firm Accellta Ltd, showed its adapted printer could make large volumes of high resolution cells quickly.
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May 25, 2016
Airbus Subsidiary Designs World’s First 3D-Printed Aluminum Motorcycle | Aluminum Insider
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: 3D printing, business
“European multinational aerospace and defense corporation Airbus Group SE’s subsidiary APWorks GmbH has developed the world’s first 3D-printed all-aluminium bodied motorcycle.”
May 22, 2016
Lasers and nanoparticles combine to allow metallic 3D printing in midair
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, electronics
A new method of 3D printing could allow for custom printing of metal components for electronics, medical devices, and more.
May 22, 2016
HP’s New Jet Fusion 3D Printers Can Print Electronics Inside a Product
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, electronics
HP has announced that they will be releasing their first generation 3D printers by the end of the year. The Multi Jet Fusion Technology allows 3D printing at half the cost and ten times the speed.
HP has released two new 3D printer models, the Jet Fusion 3200 and Jet Fusion 4200—their first products on the market since the company entered the 3D printing arena in 2014. These high-end printers do not need lasers (like most rivals in their range) and will be available by the end of the year.
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May 19, 2016
This college student 3D printed his own plastic braces for $60 — and they actually fixed his teeth
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, education, health
Ever dream of becoming a dentist? Or, have family members needing new dentures? Or, know that one person who would look good if they only had some teeth. This 3D Printer is your answer.
An undergraduate at New Jersey Institute of Technology made his own plastic braces using a 3D printer, $60 of materials, and a healthy dose of ingenuity — and they actually worked.
Amos Dudley had braces in middle school, but he didn’t wear a retainer like he was supposed to, so his teeth slowly shifted back.
May 18, 2016
Here’s How Nike Will (Probably) 3D-Print Your Next Shoes
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: 3D printing
May 17, 2016
Want to build a moon base? Easy. Just print it
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: 3D printing, space
What I really want to do is to use the machine to complete the Sagrada Familia. And to build on the moon.
Why carry building materials from Earth into space, when we can build structures by 3D printing using materials found out there?
May 13, 2016
‘Radical life extension’ coming, futurist says
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, bioengineering, computing, life extension, nanotechnology, neuroscience, Ray Kurzweil
KITCHENER — Big jumps in life expectancy will begin in as little as 10 years thanks to advances in nanotechnology and 3D printing that will also enable wireless connections among human brains and cloud computers, a leading futurist said Thursday.
“In 10 or 15 years from now we will be adding more than a year, every year, to your life expectancy,” Ray Kurzweil told an audience of 800 people at Communtech’s annual Tech Leadership conference.
Kurzweil, a futurist, inventor and author, as well as a director of engineering at Google, calls this “radical life extension.”
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May 7, 2016
Disney’s 3D Printer Produces Models Almost Instantaneously Using Light
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical
Disney Research has designed a new 3D printer that utilizes light on photosensitive resin so that models can be printed out as whole objects instead of by the layer, cutting down 3D printing from hours down to just minutes.
Disney Research has patented its design for “a nearly instantaneous” 3D printer that uses light to cure resin selectively to produce an entire model out of a stereolithography (STL) file all at once. Notably, this significantly cuts down printing time. Or at least, it will if it makes it to market.
“Presently, 3D printing is extremely slow and time consuming. For example, it may take several hours to print a single 3D object even if the 3D object is relatively small (e.g., several inches in diameter and four to 12 inches tall),” the patent stated. It continues, “the 3D printing process that uses conventional 3D printers such as an FFF-based 3D printer is limited in its speed by the speed of the mechanism moving the print head to each new position on a print layer.”
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