After spending an entire summer on crutches after breaking his ankle while playing basketball, Partha Unnava decided to change his situation for the better. While on crutches, Unnava had experienced severe underarm pain and confirmed that other people he knew on crutches complained that they also experienced similar problems. Along with two fellow biomedical engineering students at Georgia Tech, Andrew Varghese and Frankie Swindell, Unnava…

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Arthritic ankles make it almost impossible for many sufferers of arthritis to walk. However, another option is now available. This option involves ankle replacement surgery for patients with severe osteoarthritis of the ankle, which typically develops following injury to the ankle joint. While doctors say this should be the last resort, 3D printing has made this surgery a very effective option. Bettye Dube fell and…

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3D printing and 3D scanning use has rapidly grown in the automotive industry. The latest news comes from BMW which has introduced a 3D printed flexible finger cot. The aim of this latest design is to protect employees against excess strains on their thumb joints as they undertake specific assembly activities. The aim is to provide workers with the best-possible support in production and in…

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Soft cell-based robotic devices could assist in the designing of systems and machines that are able to sense and respond to complex environmental signals. Engineers based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently held a demonstration to showcase a class of 3D printed walking “bio-bots” that are powered by muscle cells and controlled via electrical pulses. The team has been a pioneer in the…

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Ignitec, a product design house based in the United Kingdom has designed and manufactured a new generation of wireless headphones using 3D printing. The headphones were made for Audiowings technology start-up and luxury goods company. Named after the company, Audiowings is a luxury audio headphone that directly synchronizes with online music services like Spotify. This allows users to listen to their favorite music on the…

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Researchers at MIT have been looking into building human livers using 3D printing. The research team led by Sangeeta Bhatia has moved a step closer to the creation of synthetic liver. These tiny human livers contain approximately one million cells and resemble contact lenses in appearance. Real human livers contain about a hundred billion liver cells, so they would have to be a thousand times…

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Gulliver’s Gate LLC plans to bring the most magical, interactive and technologically advanced miniature park attraction in the world to New York, using 3D printing. Slated to arrive in New York’s Times Square in 2016, Gulliver’s Gate will be the largest, most immersive and intricate miniature attraction ever shown in the United States. One of the most innovative in the world, this attraction features a…

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Researchers based at Sabin Design Lab, Jenny Sabin Studio and Cornell University have developed a new method of 3D printing large-scale forms of customized digital tools, low cost printing materials, as well as 3D printed interlocking component based systems referred to as PolyBricks. PolyBricks are nonstandard high-resolution ceramic bricks that are quite similar to cinder blocks, although they do not require any mortar or additional…

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Shapeways has announced its collaboration with Google on a new Made with Code initiative that is designed to inspire millions of girls to code and create bracelets. The Made with Code initiative offers simple and fun projects, designed to help girls take the first step in learning how to code their own bracelets. The initiative’s premier project is a coding project that is based on…

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