Forget the 3D Printer: 4D Printing Could Change Everything. The 3D Cube printer that gives you a production line at home. The Cube 3D desktop printer, costing £1,195, goes on sale in Britain todayIt can make plastic items up to 5.5in square, including toys, doorknobs, cutlery, jewellery and chess piecesConcerns about the technology being used for crime or terrorismBut reviewers describe it as 'incredible stuff' and 'the future' By Sean Poulter, Consumer Affairs Editor Published: 22:08 GMT, 1 October 2013 | Updated: 13:24 GMT, 2 October 2013 It may be just 10in high and look like a children’s toy, but this 3D home printer could revolutionise the way we live.
Technophiles say The Cube, which goes on sale in Britain today, may pave the way for a world in which consumers manufacture many of the things they want instead of buying them. The £1,195 desktop printer can make plastic items up to 5.5in square such as toys, doorknobs, party cutlery, kitchen utensils or chess pieces. Scroll down for video The printer could even make a replacement windscreen washer nozzle for your car. Video Source YouTube. The rise of 4D printing: From self-assembling furniture to camouflage-changing tanks, U.S. Army becomes latest group to develop morphing materials.
4D printing enables 3D-printed materials to be programmed to self-assembleIt can do this, for instance, by varying material's water-absorbing qualitiesThis activates shape change when material come into contact with moistureU.S.
Army has awarded £528,000 to the University of Pittsburgh, Harvard School of Engineering and Illinois University to develop the technology By Ellie Zolfagharifard. Is this the best 3D printer ever? Machine creates an exact replica of your face made from CHOCOLATE. The Choc Creator, designed at Exeter University, Devon, works by squirting out chocolate according to computer instructionsUsing its special printing head, the machine owned by company Choc Edge can produce lines of chocolate as narrow as half a millimetre wideCustomers can send an image of themselves through the company's website and the machine creates a layered chocolate portrait from £50 By Sarah Griffiths Published: 13:05 GMT, 27 December 2013 | Updated: 20:27 GMT, 27 December 2013 Customers can send an image of themselves through the company's website and the machine creates a thick layered chocolate portrait Chocoholics who have not over-indulged this Christmas can have their portrait created out of their favourite food using the world's first 3D chocolate printer.
3D printed ROOM looks like beautiful interior of a cathedral. Architects created the room to explore the 'expressive formal potentials of digital technologies' and the lavish and exciting spaces they can createMichael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger used 3D printed sandstone blocks to contruct the room or grotto, which measures 16 square metresThey believe the new technique could be used in the restoration of historic buildings as well as constructing new ones By Sarah Griffiths Published: 16:01 GMT, 19 September 2013 | Updated: 17:20 GMT, 19 September 2013 Architects have used a 3D printer to create an intricately decorated room that looks a little like the interior of a cathedral.
Creative duo Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger made the grand space called 'Digital Grotesque' that measures 16 square metres and has an incredible 260 million facets. Scroll down for video The pair used algorithms to create the building, which while carefully designed, did not necessarily produce an 'entirely foreseeable result' according to the architects. Velleman K8200: First 3D printer available on the high street goes on sale for £700. The Velleman K8200 is available from electronic store Maplin for £700It comes with design software and five metres of wire plasticMaplin is the first major high-street brand to sell 3D printers By Victoria Woollaston.
The tiny lab-grown livers that perform like the real thing... and could pave the way for human-sized organs for transplant. Scientists used a 3D printer loaded with cells to create mini liversCan be infected with a disease to observe its progress through organTiny livers can also be used to monitor effectiveness of drugs By Kerry Mcdermott Published: 09:55 GMT, 24 April 2013 | Updated: 11:45 GMT, 24 April 2013.
Forget the ballpoint: The £30 pen that can write in 3D using plastic wire. Pen set to go on sale later this year if enough funding is raised via online site KickstarterWrites using a plastic wire that hardens almost instantly By Mark Prigg Published: 19:42 GMT, 19 February 2013 | Updated: 18:04 GMT, 20 February 2014 While 3D printers are still too expensive for most of us, a Kickstarter project is hoping to fund a cheaper alternative - a pen capable of drawing 3D structures.
Called 3Doodler, the $50 (£32) pen writes using a plastic wire that hardens almost instantly on being cooled by a fan built in to the pen's tip. It is hoped it will go on sale later this year, and the firm has already given prototypes to artists to create everything from 3D animals to reconstructions of the Eiffel tower. Paleontologists: Standardise 3D laser image files, for pity's sake. 10 Ways to Build a Better Big Data Security Strategy Bone-fancying boffins in the States have issued an impassioned call for the world of paleontology to standardise on a digital file format for 3D images of fossils before it's too late.
Until recently, fossils were recorded by investigating boffins using moulds or casts of plaster or rubber. But such records are cumbersome, taking up a lot of space and difficult for scientists around the world to examine easily. Furthermore, the process of record-taking is invasive and priceless relics of the ancient past can be damaged. The answer, says paleontologist Thomas Adams, is 3D laser mapping to produce a digital record of important fossilized dinosaur bones, footprints, eggs etc. "Currently there is no single 3D format that is universally portable and accepted by all software manufacturers and researchers," write Adams and his colleagues in a new paper, in which they set out their suggestion for a new standard fossil-scan format. Formlabs preps first home stereolithic 3D printer. High performance access to file storage 3D printing geeks have become very excited about Formlabs' Form 1, the first home-oriented stereolithography 3D printer.
While affordable 3D printers are becoming more widespread, what makes the Form 1 special is that instead of piping resin through an extruder, it uses lasers to heat and harden a point within a bath of liquid resin. How hard is 3D printing? The Pirate Bay torrents printable 3D objects. High performance access to file storage Tremble, thing-makers, because The Pirate Bay has started to share the source files for physical objects.
The controversial file-sharing site, known for aiding the distribution of music tracks, films and books, has decided to start a new category for files of 3D objects. Only those with 3D printers will be able to make use of the files, but when they do, they'll be able to print out small plastic models like there's no tomorrow.
Pirate Bay has started a new category for data files for 3D models and is calling them Physibles, the site announced on its blog. We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. Right now, hot downloads in the Physibles section include TPB-branded Lawn Darts and a model of the 1970 Chevelle Hot-Rod. If Pirate Bay's effect on the music industry is anything to go by, the impact of this on the small plastic model industry could be catastrophic. Now you can 3D print a WORKING games controller: Revolutionary material that lets you print electronics created by British team.
Researchers from University of Warwick say electronic tracks and sensors can now be integral to a 3D printed structureThey hope their new material will be useful to entrepreneurs and trainee engineers prototyping new high-tech products By Damien Gayle Published: 12:58 GMT, 30 November 2012 | Updated: 12:58 GMT, 30 November 2012. 3D printer produces working house keys. Skyfall makers 3D printed Bond's DB5. High performance access to file storage The makers of James Bond's latest outing, Skyfall, cut a couple corners in production and used modern 3D printing techniques to fake the decimation of a classic 1960s Aston Martin DB5. You wouldn't steal a car but now you can download one The movie studio contacted Augsberg-based 3D print firm Voxeljet to make 1:3 scale replicas of the car for use in explosive scenes during the new film.
The company churned them out through a VX4000 3D printer and shipped the 18-piece DB5 miniatures to London's Propshop where they were assembled, painted and touched up with fake bullet holes, 3ders reports. The final products were then used to shoot an adrenaline-pumping scene which concludes with the total destruction of the DB5. Bear that in mind when you spend your weekly wage on popcorn to accompany the extortionate cinema ticket. Vulture Central published plenty of Bond-related articles to coincide with Skyfall's release last month.
Japan firm offers mums-to-be 3D printed unborn infants. High performance access to file storage If your partner is up the duff, and you want to record the pregnancy for posterity, you could keep the ultrasound pictures and even get a cast made of your missus’ extended abdomen. Or, if you live in Japan, you can get a 3D printed foetus. For a mere ¥100,000 (£764), one Japanese company will squeeze your partner into a MRI machine - a noisy, uncomfortable-for-the-patient piece of medical equipment capable of generating a 3D picture of the body’s interior - for an hour or so. Source: Fasotec Using the MRI-generated 3D imagery of body and embryo, the company, computer-aided engineering firm Fasotec, creates data that can drive a 3D printer. The upshot: a small, plastic, anatomically accurate (if low on resolution) model of your son or daughter, encased, if you wish, in a see-through reproduction of your other half’s ample midriff. Do they charge extra for twins, we wonder? And, if it make a bob or two from expectant parents, why not?
Staples to offer in-store full color 3D printing service. Gartner critical capabilities for enterprise endpoint backup. Making Your Own Copies of the Met’s Masterpieces with a 3D Printer. Clever the 3D printing is! Yoda helps explain the latest technology innovation. From dot matrix to the starting grid: Racing car designed purely by 3D printing can go from 0 to 60mph in just four seconds. Giant 3D printer created the the race car - engineers just added engine and wheels to get the vehicle movingDesign took just three weeks to go from concept to realitySuccessful test runs carried out at Hockenheim and Silverstone race tracks.