industrial revolution
The Brittle Spear, Part I: A Disposable World
As the tip of a spear grows ever sharper, it also becomes more brittle. Much has been said about planned obsolescence where companies engineer products to fail earlier than they…
3D Printing, Nature, and the Industry Renaissance
A revolution marks a sea change, a hard resetting of the status quo; a renaissance is, literally, a rebirth. While a revolution is typically relatively short in duration and punctuated…
HP to “Double Down” on Commitment to 3D Printing in 2018, Introducing Full Color and Metal Capabilities
Today during the company’s annual Securities Analyst Meeting, HP Inc. President and CEO Dion Weisler touched on business updates from 2017 as well as a preview for what to expect…
3D Printing Materials Development at HP Streamlines Powder Certification on Open Platform
Materials development is critical to the progress of additive manufacturing, and while HP Inc. may be relatively new to scalable participation in the 3D printing industry, they are by no…
Research and Markets Recognizes 3D Printing Growth in “Adoption of Disruptive Technologies Transforming Manufacturing” Report
As 3D printing technology continues to expand in capability and accessibility, it has played an increasingly integral part in the rise of “Industry 4.0”. The term describes an ongoing trend…
World Economic Forum Report: Existing Workforce Must Prepare, Re-Skill & Up-Skill for Impending Fourth Industrial Revolution
“If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it… then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master…
Janine Benyus Issues Call to Green 3D Printing Sooner Rather than Later
If you are interested in the field of sustainability, you have most likely run across the work of Janine Benyus before. She is a natural science writer and author of…
Is the Death of the Music Industry a Warning to be Heeded Regarding 3D Printing & Manufacturing?
I was just having a conversation with a friend yesterday regarding the music industry. We’d both seen a clip of Joe Walsh discussing basically how hopeless, bleak, and dead the…
Industrial Revolution III (IR3) 3D Printer / Pick & Place Machine Launches on Kickstarter
It’s really fascinating to watch as new ideas emerge to drive innovation within the 3D printing space. Just like the first mainstream engines were driven by steam, which were then…
A Roundup of How Today’s 3D Printing Technology is Progressing
We are due for another technology revolution. This statement sounds ludicrous — it seems smartphones and wearable tech just began infiltrating our lives. But if you look at the history…
Bling! Bling! The ‘Bling’ 3D Printer is Much More than a Pretty Machine
Technology is what has led us to become the race that we are today: the human race. You know, Homo Sapiens, the species that originated hundreds of thousands of years…