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3D Printing for Mourners: Chinese Funeral Home Turns to 3D Technologies to Reconstruct Faces of the Deceased for Open Casket Funerals
Some people find the mourning process for the death of a loved one to be even more difficult if the deceased does not have an open casket funeral. This can…
3D Technologies Salvage Royal Wedding Cake Replica to Help Recreate a Piece of British History
Researchers with the University of Warwick, and the university’s Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), have been called on to offer their 3D scanning and 3D printing services before, with mysterious Renaissance…
Interactive 3D Model Shows Detailed Topology of California’s Oroville Dam Before Spillway Damage
The wonders of 3D modeling can help people create all sorts of things, including topographical maps and puzzles, like this TopoTopo puzzle from HUSH and a 3D printed map of…
University of Nottingham Researchers Use 3D Scanning to Reveal Secrets of Hidden Priest Hole Chamber in Tudor Mansion
Two years ago, the University of Nottingham in the UK received funding for a lab filled with analysis equipment and roughly £2.7 million worth of 3D printing equipment. It’s not just…
3D Printed Patient-Specific Heart Models Used in Complex Pediatric Surgeries in China’s Hunan Province for the First Time
Time and time again, we see the massive benefits of 3D printing in the medical world. 3D printed patient-specific models of the body’s organs can help surgeons plan out their…
MemeMesh Lets You Create and Convert Your Memes into 3D Printable STL Files
We do love our Internet memes. From Grumpy Cat to Judgmental Kermit the Frog to the vast number of political memes, this social phenomenon has spawned a vast number of…
Custom Prototypes Turns Cartoon Image into 3D Printed Figurine, Brings a Smile to Disabled Girl’s Face for Christmas
Christmas is over – the delicious decorated cookies are (almost) gone, the tags have been removed from your new clothes, and you’re completely out of Scotch tape and tissue paper. When…
i.materialise Offers Time-Saving New Multiple File Upload Option
As if popular Belgium-based 3D printing service i.materialise doesn’t work hard enough to make our lives easier already, what with their newly launched Help Center to answer all our 3D printing…
Gambody Reveals Surprise 3D Printed AT-AT Walker in Time for “Rogue One” Movie Release
Gambody has done it again! The online 3D printing marketplace, which is dedicated to the designing, buying, and selling of 3D printed game models, and who we’ve also enjoyed writing…
Leopoly Announces Creative Virtual Reality Design App ShapeLab; Official Launch at VRX 2016
Sometimes, especially during the long Ohio winters, I wish I had access to the holodeck from Star Trek: The Next Generation. It would be nice to walk through that door…
3D Model Produced by Autodesk and the Smithsonian Institution Lets You See Inside Apollo 11’s Command Module
While the moon was officially full last night, it will still appear full, round and bright this evening – almost as though it were celebrating the 47th anniversary of the…
Photographer Creates Dramatic Sports Action Shots Using 3D Printed Models
Let’s say you’re a sports fan whose team has just won the big championship thanks to the heroic action of one outstanding athlete who stepped up and the saved the…
3D Printable Models of Apple Watch Available for Pre-2015 Fitting
If you’ve ever wanted to be able to speak into a wrist watch like the Secret Service agents do in the movies but have been unable to go through the…
Mortgage Lender Entices Client With a 3D Printed Home Model
When I purchased my first home, I remember the excitement that the whole process provided. From looking online for the homes that I thought would be best suited for me…
Modeling 3D Printable Coral Reefs with AutoDesk ReCap and an Underwater Camera
If you have ever wanted to print your own coral reef, then today is your lucky day. A team of marine scientists is capturing coral reef segments in all of…
San Francisco as You’ve Never Seen it Before… 3D Printed
Possibly the world’s largest 3D printed cityscape has been unveiled in San Francisco, showing the potential that 3D printed models offer city planners, architects, and real estate developers. The model…
New DNA Technology May Soon Allow People to 3D Print Their Face from a Saliva Swap
Every year thousands of major crimes go unsolved. Imagine if police could gather DNA evidence at a crime scene, and within minutes to hours, turn that sample into a 3D…
