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Posts tagged "3D printing"
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3D printed 'bionic' ear combines cartilage with an antenna →
A strange combination of tissue and electronics could help us repair — or someday even replace — human ears. Researchers led by Michael McAlpine, an assistant engineering professor at Princeton, have created a prototype artificial ear from an antenna and 3D printed cells. McAlpine has worked for years on making electronics that could be integrated with the human body: in 2011, his team built a graphene tattoo that could be stuck on a tooth to detect bacteria. In this project, though, he wanted something more: an organ with electronics embedded inside it.
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3D Printing: From Trivial to Revolutionary Objects →
Consumer 3D printers, most notably those from Brooklyn-based MakerBot, are in large part limited only by the imagination technical inclination of their owners.
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A 3-D Printer for Human Embryonic Stem Cells →
3-D printing is being used for all sorts of things, from small plastic parts and microprocessors to a titanium jawbone for transplantation, from wedding cakes, as we’ll be describing in an article in our June issue, to an entire car body, as we’ll be hearing about in a podcast next month. Everything from computer chips to chocolate chips, in other words.
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Design for 2050: Clothing Printer →
This project placed in the Semifinals of the annual Electrolux design competition in 2010. The brief was to come up with a solution to deal with the rapid urbanization of the population that would begin to make drastic changes in how we live by 2050. With a team of designers, I helped create and conceptualize the concept for an in home, clothing printer that would bring clothing production into the home. The design would eliminate the need for closets, washing machines and dryers, thus saving space in the crowded urban environments of the future.
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Organovo - the world's only commercial bioprinter →
Organovo is the developer of the NovoGen MMX Bioprinter™, the world’s only commercial bioprinter proven to create tissue.
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New Bioengineered Ears Look and Act Like the Real Thing →
Physicians at Weill Cornell Medical College and biomedical engineers at Cornell University have succeeded in building a facsimile of a living human ear that looks and acts like a natural ear. Researchers believe their bioengineering method will finally succeed in the long quest by scientists and physicians to provide normal looking “new” ears to thousands of children born with a congenital ear deformity.
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3D-Printed Skull Implant Ready for Operation →
3D printing technology has helped replace 75 percent of a patient’s skull with the approval of U.S. regulators.
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Nanoscribe Will Sell a Micro 3-D Printer That Creates Tiny Structures in Seconds →
Nanoscribe, a spin-off from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, has developed a tabletop 3-D microprinter that can create complicated microstructures 100 times faster than is possible today. “If something took one hour to make, it now takes less than one minute,” says Michael Thiel, chief scientific officer at Nanoscribe.
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Giant NASA spider robots could 3D print lunar base →
The first lunar base on the Moon may not be built by human hands, but rather by a giant spider-like robot built by NASA that can bind the dusty soil into giant bubble structures where astronauts can live, conduct experiments, relax or perhaps even cultivate crops.
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3D Printing Promises to Change Everything →
3D printing is hot right now. The promises of customization and its potential to disrupt the market are of great interest. It’s being exploited by scientists to help them print lab supplies at a reduced costs, because as anyone who has worked in a lab knows, some small specialized pieces of plastic can be ridiculously expensive. Jonathan Eisen has shared some of the 3D printing that has been done in his lab. He has some videos produced by one of his students at his blog that you can check out.
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3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Steel, Half the Weight, and Nearing Production →
Picture an assembly line not that isn’t made up of robotic arms spewing sparks to weld heavy steel, but a warehouse of plastic-spraying printers producing light, cheap and highly efficient automobiles.
If Jim Kor’s dream is realized, that’s exactly how the next generation of urban runabouts will be produced. His creation is called the Urbee 2 and it could revolutionize parts manufacturing while creating a cottage industry of small-batch automakers intent on challenging the status quo.
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I’m Andras Forgacs, CEO of Modern Meadow - a company at the forefront of 3D-printed meat and leather. AMA! →
At Modern Meadow we’re developing technology to 3D-bioprint meat and leather. In fact, we’ve already made some, which you can see my co-founder and father eat in his TED talk here (at 5:33). Why are we doing this? Meat is one of the most environmentally taxing resources, taking up one third of all available (ice-free) land and is a leading contributor to climate change. Conversely, growing cultured meat requires 99% less land, 96% less water, emits 96% fewer greenhouse gases, and harms no animals in the process.
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Draw in the air with a 3D printing pen →
There is a moment in the Kickstarter video for the 3Doodle pen (which I found via the New Scientist’s Paul Marks) which took my breath away. It comes after the introduction, when the pen is used to draw its own logo; and it is as simple as drawing a cube.
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Solve for X: Andras Forgacs on sustainable, scalable meat
