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From ventriloquist's dummies to turkey dinners, 3-D printing is heading home

When the ventriloquist Jeff Dunham wanted to make a new dummy for his show, he designed the character's head on his home computer and then printed it out in his workshop.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

New 3D printing process could lead to DIY drugstores

(Phys.org) -- A new 3D printing process developed at the University of Glasgow could revolutionise the way scientists, doctors and even the general public create chemical products.

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Could eating insects solve world food shortage?

Creating tasty food items from ground-up insects could be a solution to global food shortages, according to Insects Au Gratin, an exhibition featuring 3D food printing technology.

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 14

Print your own teeth

What if, instead of waiting days or weeks for a cast to be produced and prosthetic dental implants, false teeth and replacement crowns to be made, your dentist could quickly scan your jaw and "print" your new teeth using ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Chocolate research shapes the future of gift shopping

Manufacturing and retail could get a boost from a newly-developed 3D chocolate printer.

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Royal College of Art student make a 3D printer that focuses the light of the sun

(PhysOrg.com) -- 3D printing has been around for a few years. If you hooked it up to a solar panel you could make it work with the sun, but still would not be as cool as doing it the way that Markus Kayser, ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 11 | with audio podcast weblog

The world's smallest 3D printer

A research project at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) could turn futuristic 3D-printers into affordable everyday items.

Technology / Engineering

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

3D bio-printers to print skin and body parts

(PhysOrg.com) -- The range of uses for three-dimensional printers is increasing all the time, but now scientists are developing 3D "bioprinters" that will be able to print out skin, cartilage, bone, and other ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

World's smallest animation character shot with smartphone camera and microscope (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The title character in a 90-second film called "Dot" has broken the Guinness World Record for being the smallest stop-motion animation character in a film. The 9-mm-tall Dot (whose head is ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 24, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Introducing Cornucopia, the food printer

(PhysOrg.com) -- US scientists have introduced a concept design of the "Cornucopia" or Digital Fabricator, a "personal food factory" able to print food from specified ingredients, with no waste at the point ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 23, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (42) | comments 24 | with audio podcast report

Researchers investigate fishy sense of smell (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- As every Jaws fan knows, sharks can smell a drop of blood from up to a kilometre away, but how are their noses so sensitive?

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

UWE researchers reinvent the potters wheel

(PhysOrg.com) -- Broken the lid of your favourite ceramic teapot but can't buy a replacement? Worry not. Researchers from the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) at the University of the West of England, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 20, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

3D printer could build moon bases

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Italian inventor, Enrico Dini, chairman of the company Monolite UK Ltd, has developed a huge three-dimensional printer called D-Shape that can print entire buildings out of sand and an ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 19, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (59) | comments 48 | with audio podcast weblog