Fujifilm Tests The 3D Printing Waters
This could be fun… and it seems if it works out 3D home printers would be the next step. George: “Honey, Astro hid the wrench again”… Jane: “Give me five minutes and I’ll print one for you” … Fujifilm tests the 3D printing waters By Noel McKeegan 3D printing is starting to surf a wave […]
Lisa Harouni: A primer on 3D printing
2012 may be the year of 3D printing, when this three-decade-old technology finally becomes accessible and even commonplace. Lisa Harouni gives a useful introduction to this fascinating way of making things — including intricate objects once impossible to create. via Lisa Harouni: A primer on 3D printing | Video on TED.com.
3D Printing Brings New Angle To Animation
By Meaghan Murphy Sony Pictures upcoming “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” still uses molding clay and traditional stop-motion animation to bring its wide-eyed characters to life, but creator Aardman Animations happily embraced a strange new technology to make those figures speak: 3D printers. A 3D printer is much like an ordinary one, but it works in […]
Reebok creates largest 3D street art
by Tim Reebok wanted to create a backdrop of truly epic proportions for their range Cross Fit. Hopping on the 3D street art craze, they commissioned artists 3D Joe and Max to break the Guinness World Record for the largest ever 3D street art piece. The painting was created in a week amidst fog and rain at London’s […]
Meet Arachno-Bot! A Creepy 3D-printed Robot Spider
Everyone has their kryptonite and mine happens to be spiders. The the tenth degree of that, would be jumping spiders, and the tenth degree of that tenth degree would have to be giant jumping spiders. Sure, these are 3D-printed, but in the scene of the Jerry Bruckheimer movie now playing in my head… I’m trapped […]
3D Printer Creates TOOLS for Space Travel!
3D printing is a form of additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is created by laying down successive layers of material. 3D printers are generally faster, more affordable and easier to use than other additive manufacturing technologies. 3D printers offer product developers the ability to print parts and assemblies made of several materials […]
World's First 3D-Printed Bikini Makes Debut
Developed in partnership with Continuum Fashion, the N12 is the first fully 3D printed Bikini, ready to wear and available for purchase from the Conitnuum’s Shapeways Shop. Designed by Continuum Fashion, the N12 if the first completely 3D-printed, ready-to-wear, item of clothing. Previous experiments into the use of 3D printing in clothing have remained purely experimental, haute couture […]
Samsung gives famous historic Dutch building a new dimension with 3D Projection
Too cool… On Thursday the 20th of May 2010, Samsung was the first to introduce a large-scale commercial 3D-Outdoor projection in the Netherlands, at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Between 22.30 and 00.30 on the evenings of the 20th, 21st and 22nd of May, the public was able to view the addition of a […]
3D Printing Lets You Touch The Statistics
3D printing is ushering many exciting trends into reality but one of the more engaging applications of the technology has to be in creating data sculptures which make statistics palpable. We marvelled at Mitchell Whitelaws subtle coffee cup weather sculpture and now ITP’s Michael Knuepfel has created a 3D printed sculpture which visualises the frequency […]
Honda takes 3-D outdoors
Honda has launched a national ad push with a yin-yang feel for its newest vehicle, the CR-Z sport hybrid. The campaign, via RPA, centers on the fact that the car embodies both sport and hybrid characteristics. Targeting youthful 25- to-35-year-olds, it uses 3D technology for in-theater, print, events and interactive elements. Honda says that on […]
Catalogs by Barneys, Sears, J.C. Penney get creative
After a seven-year hiatus, Abercrombie & Fitch brought back its racy A&F Quarterly Saturday, but the controversial publication is making a comeback as many retailers are heading in the other direction. With retailers forced to take a hard look at their bottom lines during the recession, catalogs are adjusting, but not disappearing, says Leslie Linevsky, […]
Playboy 'readers' get 3-D centerfold in June issue
Playboy readers who can only imagine what it would look like if a centerfold jumped right off the page are getting new specs to help them see into Hef’s world. The magazine’s June edition hits newsstands Friday equipped with 3-D glasses. Now the toy that has kids dodging dragons, meatballs and tall blue aliens at […]