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Down-to-Earth Benefits from NASA's 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge To advance the technology needed to create sustainable housing solutions for trips to the moon, Mars, and beyond, as well as here on Earth, NASA is conducting the 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge. Teams compete to construct dwellings out of local, indigenous, or recyclable materials, and designs are out of this world. |
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Crowdsourcing Emerging Manufacturing and Water Security Technology Borrowing from the successful NASA Challenges playbook, the US Department of Energy recently launched several crowdsourcing efforts to incentivize new applications and technologies in additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, and transforming nontraditional water sources into resources. |
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Robots and Origami: Designing and 3D Printing Foldable Robots Origami is no longer limited to folding a sheet of paper into a crane. Now there’s Interactive Robogami, a new system under development from researchers at MIT that gives those of us who are neither a roboticist nor a mechanical engineer the tools to design our own robots. |
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Blended Reality Could Be the Next Big Thing Blended reality can be most easily described as a tech-powered sixth sense. In order to harness this additional sense, you need to wear or be implanted with some piece of technology that speaks to a computer. HP's new Sprout touch-based computer is one of the first to make use of this concept. |
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Disabled Duck Walking Again with New 3D-Printed Foot Buttercup the duck was born with a backward foot that eventually had to be amputated. In searching for a replacement foot, his caretaker had the idea to fit the duck with a 3D-printed prosthetic. A printing company cast a 3D mold to make a silicone foot, and today, Buttercup is waddling happily. |
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3D Printed Airway Tube Saves Baby’s Life in Groundbreaking Procedure A baby was diagnosed with a rare condition that prevented his breathing on his own. University of Michigan researchers were able to use a 3D printer to fashion a splint to open the child's airway, and now he breathes fine. 3D printing could well be the future for life-saving medical procedures. |
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3D Printing Software Options for Every Skill Set and Price Point 3D printing has existed for more than thirty years but only recently has it exploded into one of the tech world's biggest buzzwords and a must-have for artists, manufacturers, and even doctors. Learn how—through open source software and unbridled curiosity—3D printing is changing the world. |
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James Bond Drives 3D Aston Martin For the action scenes in the latest James Bond movie Skyfall, British company Propshop Modelmakers used innovative 3D printing technology from Augsburg-based voxeljet to create the three Aston Martin DB5 models that double for the now priceless original vehicle from the 1960s. |
