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RIP 3D Printing: 1987 – 2023, Complexity is Expensive

This is not clickbait; it’s a public service announcement. Where there was once a bustling activity, now there’s a noticeable quiet. People are revising their resumes for LinkedIn, and budgets…

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Future of AM: 3D Printing Experts Talk Mass Production Issues

What is the future of 3D printing? Away from the hype and Wall Street, what are we actually going to be able to do? What are the challenges in additive…

Janne Kyttanen on 3D Printing in 2020

Janne Kyttanen is truly a 3D printing pioneer having spearheaded product design and consumer, industrial design, furniture, clothing, and other products with 3D printing. Roles at Materialise and 3D Systems…

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A 2020 View of Metal Additive Manufacturing

Yes, the title is ironic. No view of the future is 20/20, especially ours, although John has been eyeing some 3D printed custom Titanium frames to help sharpen the outlook….

Fast Things 8: The Shape Game and Mrs. Incredible

Imagine the answer to life, the universe, and everything is: donut. In a world of Fast Things, 3D Printing is the logical production technology. With our technology, you can go…

The 3D Printing Octagon  

A few years ago I started to think of 3D printing as a triangle where you had to control for each part of the delta: software, machines, and materials. I’ve…

Christmas of the Future Includes 3D Printed Food, Virtual Christmas Trees, and Social Media for Pets

As Christmas approaches, many people are getting ready for the same traditions they celebrate every year. It’s a holiday of tradition, after all – whether that means the fairly universal…

Paving the Way for the UK’s 3D Printed Future

On a damp Wednesday afternoon in Yorkshire, a factory floor is busy churning out bespoke metal parts for industries including aerospace, motor sport and automobile at a pace which would…

First 3D Printed Replica of 3,000-Year-Old Chinese Oracle Bone Created

Despite the fact that most people seem to have only a limited understanding of the importance of knowing about the past, human beings seem to be consistently interested in knowing…

3D Printing Will Help Bring Us An Actual Hoverboard in 2015 – Interview With Arx Pax CEO Greg Henderson

We are one month into the year 2015, and despite predictions made by writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis in their 1985 Back to the Future we have yet to lay…

Japanese Company Proposes ‘Ocean Spiral,’ Underwater Cities to be 3D Printed

It sounds like something that would be the setting for an epic Kevin Costner-type film, but instead the idea of an underwater city is being proposed by a Japanese company…

Conceptualizing the Future of Skin Fusion in Replacing the Need for Stitches, Using 3D Printing

It is always fun to think about the future; to close our eyes, and dream of a time when technology has advanced further along, making our lives easier, longer, healthier,…

Under Armour’s Game Changer is Coming! – 3D Printing Will Usher in a Revolution in Clothing

Most people simply don’t realize that 3D printing has been in use for close to 25 years, by companies, that from an outsider’s point of view, don’t appear to have a use…

BAE Systems Unveils Concepts of On-Board Aircraft 3D Printers Able to Print Incredible UAVs During a Mission

Drones and 3D Printing. They go together like mashed potatoes and gravy. Well maybe not quite as well, but without 3D printers, the entire drone community would certainly be a…

‘In the Year 2054: Rifles will 3D print their own bullets’ – At Least According to Call of Duty Developer

It’s always fun predicting the future. People do it all the time because it is entertaining to imagine a world that we or our children will one day have the…

Five 3D Printing Predictions For the Next Five Years

The amount of innovation we have seen within the 3D printing industry in the last three years has outdone all the innovation within the industry in the prior 20 years….