BY: JESSICA BEUKER Last year, Americans alone drank 6.3 billion gallons of beer, with 50 per cent of that number sold in cans held together by plastic rings. Those plastic rings often end up in the ocean, where…
Scientists are now making human body parts using 3D printers
BY: STEFANIE AWRONSKI 3D printing has had an impressive and decorated existence. The ridiculously cool invention in its 30-plus year run has seen the creation of things as trivial as action figurines, but also wheelchairs for two-legged animals, casts and…
Solar-powered 3D printers are giving near-instant disaster relief to underdeveloped communities
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Michigan Technological University Professor, Joshua Pearce, has invented the first mobile, solar-powered 3D printer, offering his design free and open-source in the interest of helping off-grid developing economies. By organizing a wide selection of printable items on…
The first household 3D printers are self-replicating
BY: TED BARNABY We’ve seen Google Glass, solar power roadways and the Oculus Rift, but when it comes to holy-shit-we’re-in-the-future gadgets, 3D printing is likely the most eligible of the new technologies. Ever since the release of the first 3D…