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Jabil and Fictiv offering joint digital thread for streamlined AM 3D Printing Service Providers

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San Francisco-based digital manufacturing company Fictiv has signed an agreement with global manufacturing company Jabil Inc. through which Jabil will join its worldwide manufacturing network. The collaboration will aim to streamline prototyping and mass-scale production using 3D printing through a state-of-the-art digital thread specifically designed to de-risk the supply chain through quality, speed, transparency and agility.

Awesome Makeway magnetic 3D printed marble-track puzzle raises millions Consumer Products

Awesome Makeway magnetic 3D printed marble-track puzzle raises millions Consumer Products

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Makeway is a modular, creative, unique super-puzzle with magnetic bits that attach seamlessly to all ferromagnetic materials-like a fridge, a locker or a whiteboard, a car. Simply move the track, connector and trick pieces around for an exciting brand new marble challenge. Now that it has collected over 4 million euro between the Kickstarter and Indiegogo crowdfunding platforms, the final products will be produced by injection molding, but it probably would have never seen the light if it were not for some intensive 3D printing to make the first prototype in the videos above and below.

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Design agency creates 3D printed walkman for the modern age Consumer Products

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Technology has progressed at amazing rates. Think about it: just four decades ago, Sony released the first walkman. Today, you’d be hard pressed to find one in a store and most youngsters wouldn’t even recognize a cassette. For those for whom nostalgia bites hard, a creative design agency has created an homage to the now obsolete Walkman, ironically using state-of-the-art 3D printing technology to do so.