Print your own medicine - Lee Cronin. Kim Dotcom gets mega-scared of 3D printed guns, pulls plans from site. The US government pulled the plans for Defense Distributed's 3D printed gun after two days, but not before it was downloaded 100,000 times.
It took Kim Dotcom, founder of online file sharing service Mega, a little bit longer, but the internet mogul has deleted all public links to the weapon's blueprints. Dotcom, who is fighting the US government's attempts to extradite him from his mansion home in New Zealand to face piracy charges, told Radio New Zealand that the possibilities of the weapon were scary.
"I think it's a serious threat to security of the community. I think it's scary that people can print 3D guns that can't even be detected by metal detectors ... This should concern everybody," he said. Private links still available. US Government shuts down 3D gun manufacturer. DALLAS, May 9, 2013 - The revolutionary concept of 3-D printed firearms has been building momentum for months now.
Online observers, innovators, investors and the generally curious celebrated as the first completely 3-D printed handgun became a reality. Now You Can Buy 3D Printers From Staples. Staples just became a little more cutting edge.
The office supply chain announced Friday that it is now selling 3D printers through its website and will start selling 3D printers in select stores by the end of next month. Staples is touting itself as the first "major U.S. retailer" to sell the product. Someone Out There Is 3D-Printing Faces With Your Discarded DNA Scraps. Skylar Tibbits: The emergence of "4D printing" 3Doodler: The World's First 3D Printing Pen by WobbleWorks LLC.
Plastic film is future of 3-D on-the-go. Ditch the 3D glasses.
Thanks to a simple plastic filter, mobile device users can now view unprecedented, distortion-free, brilliant 3D content with the naked eye. This latest innovation from Temasek Polytechnic and A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering is the first ever glasses-free 3D accessory that can display content in both portrait and landscape mode, and measures less than 0.1 mm in thickness. "The filter is essentially a piece of plastic film with about half a million perfectly shaped lenses engineered onto its surface using IMRE's proprietary nanoimprinting technology," said Dr Jaslyn Law, the IMRE scientist who worked with TP on the nanoimprinting R&D since 2010 to enhance the film's smoothness, clarity and transparency compared to other films in the market.
"Our breakthrough is a game-changing piece of plastic that simply fits onto current smartphones or tablets to give users breathtaking 3D graphics on their smart devices. 3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Steel, Half the Weight, and Nearing Production. Engineer Jim Kor and his design for the Urbee 2.
Photo: Sara Payne 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. How 3D Printing Actually Works. Now that 3D printing — the process of making three-dimensional solid objects from digital designs — is available and affordable to individual consumers, it's piqued a lot of interest across the tech space in the past few years.
From scale models, gifts and clothing to prosthetic limbs, hearing aids and the prospect of 3D-printed homes, the possibilities seem endless. The concept of 3D printing is by no means new, however. Click, Print, Gun: 3D printed Firearms and what they mean for Society. Patient has 75 per cent of his skull replaced by 3D-printed implant. 3D Bio-Printed Meat is No Longer Science Fiction. Dita Von Teese předvedla první šaty z 3D tiskárny - iDNES.cz. 9. března 2013 16:23 Americká burleskní umělkyně Dita Von Teese jako první oblékla šaty z látky potištěné nejmodernější 3D tiskárnou a posetou krystaly.
Předvedla je v New Yorku. The World’s First 3D Printing Pen that Lets you Draw Sculptures. Forget those pesky 3D printers that require software and the knowledge of 3D modeling and behold the 3Doodler, the world’s first pen that draws in three dimensions in real time.
Imagine holding a pen and waving it through the air, only the line your pen creates stays frozen, suspended and permanent in 3D space. Sound like magic? Well it certainly looks like it, watch the video above to see the thing in action. The 3Doodler was designed by Boston-based company WobbleWorks who recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to sell the miraculous little devices that utilizes a special plastic which is heated and instantly cooled to form solid structures as you draw.
Rebuttal to 3D Printing Revolution: the Complex Reality. By Adam B.
Levine | Mar.6, 2013 I respect MAKE and the niche they've carved out for themselves, but after the hopes-and-dreams crusher I just read, well.... Sometimes we all take ourselves a little too seriously. The existing hobbyist-friendly additive prototyping methods tend to produce parts from a very narrow choice of materials, all of which exhibit fairly poor mechanical characteristics; there are no signs that this will change in the coming years.... ...In popular view, 3D printers are a tool that will enable us to directly make almost anything; this way of thinking is exemplified by the commercial arms race to deliver FDM machines that print in color.
But this pursuit may be misguided: as it is, both 3D printing and CNC machining tends to be more useful for producing tooling patterns – that is, shapes that serve as an input to another, more specialized manufacturing process carried later on. “Download this gun”: 3D-printed semi-automatic fires over 600 rounds. Cody Wilson, like many Texan gunsmiths, is fast-talkin’ and fast-shootin’—but unlike his predecessors in the Lone Star State, he’s got 3D printing technology to help him with his craft.
Wilson’s nonprofit organization, Defense Distributed, released a video this week showing a gun firing off over 600 rounds—illustrating what is likely to be the first wave of semi-automatic and automatic weapons produced by the additive manufacturing process. Last year, his group famously demonstrated that it could use a 3D-printed “lower” for an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle—but the gun failed after six rounds. Now, after some re-tooling, Defense Distributed has shown that it has fixed the design flaws and a gun using its lower can seemingly fire for quite a while. (The AR-15 is the civilian version of the military M16 rifle.) The lower, or "lower receiver" part of a firearm, is the crucial part that contains all of the gun's operating parts, including the trigger group and the magazine port.
Totally legal. Praskne kryt za 20 korun pro Lumii 820? Vyzkoušeli jsme možnosti 3D tisku. Nokia prodává model Lumia 820, který jsme nedávno recenzovali, v několika barevných provedeních. Ostatně křiklavé barvy jsou často spojeny s většinou windows phone telefonů. Hitem v módním průmyslu se stává 3D tisk. Módní svět je v některých ohledech nevypočitatelný – po vlně nostalgie a retrománie se nyní upíná k novým technologiím a očekává třetí průmyslovou revoluci spojenou s digitalizací. Leaders Of The 3D Printing Revolution. 3D Printing Can Turbocharge Mashup Culture. 3D Printing Can Turbocharge Mashup Culture This is a guest post by Public Knowledge Vice President Michael Weinberg Mashups are one of the great art forms of our time. Although remixes, mashups, sampling, and collage predate the internet by decades (if not centuries), easy, accessible digital tools have allowed anyone to remix videos, music, and photographs into their own original works.
Mashup culture has produced fantastic music , critical video, and delightful cultural artifacts of all kinds. However, for all of its successes, mashups are ultimately limited by the nature of their source material. Enter 3D printing. One of the best examples of this so far is the Free Universal Construction Kit. Budeme 3D tisknout základny na Měsíci? The first 3D-printed human stem cells. The shortage of transplantable organs has spawned a fascinating science and market. A liver, for example, is often split among two recipients, while for a cystic fibrosis patient in need of two lungs, it is technically preferable to just swap out both the heart and lungs as a combo unit.
The extra heart can then be domino donated to a third party. Bioprinting complete organs en masse is a tough proposition because the identity expressed by each component cell must be individually programmed. Then the cells need to be knitted together in a developmentally sound fashion. 3D printed moon building designs revealed. 1 February 2013Last updated at 12:21 GMT The protective shell of the building is designed to be constructed on site by 3D printers Architects Fosters and Partners have revealed designs for a building on the Moon that could be constructed from material already on its surface. An inflatable structure would be transported from Earth, then covered with a shell built by 3D printers.
The printers, operated by robots, would use soil from the Moon, known as regolith, to build the layered cover. Equipment Focus: 3D Material Printing. WMG at the University of Warwick have an extensive range of high-tech equipment and facilities for businesses to use, either on an ad-hoc basis or through collaborative research projects. Our technical and scientific capabilities supports themes such as: Materials and Manufacturing, Energy Storage and Management, Electrical Systems, Healthcare, Product Evaluation. We very much encourage collaboration between industry and academia and our strength lies in supporting businesses to solve challenges and to ensure quality product, services and processes are created. 3D Material Printing. 3D printing developed at Warwick — News.
**Researchers within the School of Engineering at Warwick have been working towards the development of new materials which could one day allow people to print out custom-designed personal electronics.** Applications of this 3D electronic printing could vary from games controllers designed to perfectly fit different individuals’ hand shape, to customising the design of an item found on the internet which could then be printed and ready for use in a matter of hours. The research team, led by Dr Simon Leigh, have created a conductive plastic composite which is both simple and inexpensive.