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2014Koenigsegg to 3D Print Parts for the World’s Fastest Car
As part of its 20th birthday celebrations, Swedish automaker Koenigsegg unveiled the launch of the Agera One:1, a hyper car that’s slated to become the “world’s first mega car”. This is the first production car that will offer a 1:1 power to weight ratio as it weighs 1340kg and produces 1322bhp (1340 metric horsepower). The company intends to capitalize on 3D scanning and 3D printing…
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2014First 3D Printed Electric Guitar Pick Launched
3D printing makes its way to musical instruments with the creation of the first electric guitar pick made with a 3D printer. Because 3D printing allows for the manufacture of ‘impossible’ shapes, this new invention doesn’t come as a surprise to many. Invented by Polish maker Rob Klacznski, the creator behind the notorious “pills bisector”, along with his friend guitarist Martin Kubacki, this 3D printed…
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2014Google’s Project Tango to bring 3D Mapping Smarts to NASA Robots in Space
Google recently unveiled Project Tango, a new system to virtualize the world and bring new applications and uses via smartphones. In a new partnership between NASA and the ATAP (Advanced Technology and Projects) group at Google, a project Tango development phone will be used with the SPHERES satellites inside the International Space Station (ISS). This SPHERES program is intended for the development of zero-gravity autonomous…
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2014Scientists Attempt to 3D Print a Working Human Heart from Fat Cells
Researchers and doctors at the University of Louisville have attempted to 3D print a copy of the heart of a sick patient using the patient’s very own fat cells. Using a 3D printer, the scientists are hoping to be able to create a ‘bioficial’ heart, which is a blend of the natural and the artificial. Scientists behind this ambitious project state that this is easier…
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2014Lost Luggage? Just 3D Print A New One
Designer Janne Kyttanen, the Creative Director for 3D Systems, has been shaping the future of consumer 3D printing for some time now. In doing so, he has come up with 3D printed Platform Bag, as well as a series of 3D printable files that enable users to send luggage via email. In this way, travelers are able to move round the world unencumbered and arrive…
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2014Artist Creates 3D Printed House
Loan Florea has created a 3D printed house based on Mobile Homestead by the late artist Mike Kelley. Florea’s creation traveled to Manhattan, N.Y. from Illinois on an 18-wheeler flatbed truck. The Romanian-born artist uses 3D printers for printing plastic which he then uses as blueprints. These are expanded into large resin molds, which are thereafter enlarged 20-30 times. Florea developed a process that produces…
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20143D Printed Ear Implants with Memory Debuted
Scientists at the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH), an independent, non-profit research institute have made ear plants with memory using 3D printing. The tiny implants have a memory function or complex shapes, including the cochlea of the human inner ear. The utmost care is required during the insertion of an implant into the tiny cochlea. During this procedure, the surgeon runs the risk of destroying…
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2014Bioplastic Filament for 3D Printing Launched
Because modern plastics are manufactured from very long and complicated molecules, they are unlike anything found in nature; therefore the earth has a very difficult time breaking them down. To the rescue is Sierra Resins, a Mansfield, MA, U.S. based Bioplastics formulator and 3D Printlife, an online US filament and 3D printer retailer. Through a joint venture, the two companies have introduced a 3D printer…
