3D printing

3D-Printed Airway Saves Life

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/splint.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="53" border="0" />In the wake of plastic gun stories, a unique use case for 3D printing helps demonstrate that the additive manufacturing technology's ...Full Article

NASA to 3D Print the Future of Food

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/NASA-funds-3D-food-printer-starts-with-pizza.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="60" border="0" />NASA has awarded a $125,000 grant for a project intended to 3D print food for astronauts in space. The printer will ...Full Article

3D Printing Meets Augmented Reality

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/augmented03_preview_featured.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />Sander Veenhof and Joris van Tubergen, of the Netherlands, joined their skills in media art and design to merge 3D printing ...Full Article

White House Puts $200 Million toward Military Manufacturing

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/obamamanufacturing.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />We've known since Obama's State of the Union address this year that 3D printing is a key pillar in the president's ...Full Article

GE Casts Welding Aside for Jet Engines

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/geleap.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="49" border="0" />Historically, the manufacture of jet engines has revolved around the centuries-old processes of casting and welding. But GE may trigger a ...Full Article

Investor Bets Big on 3D Printing

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/shapeways.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley investment firm, is known for placing big bets on a small number of companies and industries, ...Full Article

Lab-Grown Kidney Transplant a Success

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/kidney.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="130" />This week, bioengineers have come one step closer to making lab-grown organs a viable option for those in need of a transplant. ...Full Article

3D Printing Enters the Operating Room

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/3dorgan.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />A major focus of 3D printing is and has been for a while the promise for eventual home-grown organs that can help ...Full Article

Beating the High Cost of 3D Printing

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/lyman.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="66" />If traditional inkjet printers have taught us anything, it's that the true expense of a printer is in the ink. Its cost ...Full Article

From 3D Printing to 3D Pens

<div><img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/TourlEiffel.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" /></div> New technology in its earliest stages remains the domain of the scientists and inventors. Traditionally, the stumbling block has been finding a ...Full Article