3D Printer Meats

This week they have more spectacular announcements. They’ve been working with the French Culinary Institute to produce what is perhaps the most advanced forms of printed food yet.

In this example they’ve managed to produce a cookie with an embedded “C” (click for larger image). The “C” is made of chocolate dough – illustrating the critical [...]

3D Printer Wants to Print Human Organs

The 3D-Bioplotter takes computer aided designs from a PC and build biomaterials. Anxious geeks building girlfriends in AutoCAD as we speak.

Germany company, envisionTEC, has developed a Rapid Prototyping tool for processing biomaterials. Using a process called Computer Aided Tissue Engineering, which has nothing to do with Kleenex but everything with us, the Bioplotter can fabricate [...]

These ‘printers’ make 3-D stuff

Plastic extrusion machines that can make 3-D objects will be commonplace in homes one day, people in the field believe.

Home computer printers gave people the ability to produce bank statements, concert tickets, holiday cards and party invitations at the touch of a button.

But what if you wanted to “print out” a dinner plate, the leg [...]

Hewlett Packard now offers 3D Desktop Printing

Hewlett-Packard Printers has now moved into the realm of 3D and thankfully you won’t need special glasses to use their new product. This is because I’m referring to the new HP Designjet 3D, which is a desktop printer, however unlike most printers that come to mind, this one is capable of creating small three dimensional [...]

High-Performance Rapid Prototyping at Le Mans

Objet Geometries indulged visitors to its ‘À vitesse grand V’ event at Le Mans last week with a demonstration of its latest 3D printer, the Connex350. The event was designed to give attendees a taste of the unique benefits of the PolyJet Matrix technology for rapid prototyping. The Connex350 allows two polymers to be printed [...]