3D printer used in research at Seattle Children’s Hospital

In medicine some of the best results in research come when research centers and practicing hospitals and health centers work together: this is the case at Seattle Children’s hospital, one of the countries top pediatric hospitals and pediatric research centers. Both parts of the hospital though benefit from the 3D printer that the research department … Read more

3D systems boost customer service with new Italian Facilities

3D systems, the company behind some of the world’s most advanced 3D printers for rapid prototyping services and other 3D printing applications, has announced that its move to expanded facilities in Pinerolo Italy is complete. The multinational company has used the opportunity to consolidate the operations over several sites in the country and upgrade their … Read more

Paleontologists to use 3D printer to recreate dinosaurs

Robot or animatronic dinosaurs aren’t a new thing: they have been used in films, museums and traveling exhibitions for years but how accurate are any of them. Certainly most including even those used in films such as Jurassic Park are based on science, at least to a reasonable extent. While there are some things about … Read more

Smithsonian museums latest to use 3D printing

History is being lost all of the time, artifacts slowly turning to dust, some have already been studied, others have either never been studied due to being locked away in a museum’s vault somewhere or because they are simply too delicate to examine in detail. Opportunities to understand history better and for more people to … Read more

3D printing Technology: the next in disruptive tech

Disruptive technologies that almost everyone has now heard of include e-readers including Kindles and the digital ink technology used in them that is disrupting book publishing. Digital Music as well as mp3 players have disrupted music publishing and in both cases these technologies have been helped by perhaps the most disruptive technology of all time, … Read more