News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
The big guys are starting to ghet seriously involved. HP is going to launch its 3D printer by year end and Canon Europe, another world leader in imaging solutions, just formed a new strategic partnership with Materialise NV, one of the top global providers of Additive Manufacturing (AM) software solutions and 3D printing services, to offer the Magix suite of 3D software.
While also used in research and university contexts, “mixed reality” is Microsoft’s term for their new holographic computing line associated with the Hololens. It’s also the term used by the increasingly less-stealthy startup Magic Leap. HP calls it “blended reality”; Autdoesk refers to it as “reality computing”; and 3D Systems uses the phrase “digital thread”. But all of these terms are meant to represent the emerging 3D ecosystem.
A few days ago I spoke with Simone Fontana, who is part of a new generation of 3D designers, born with 3D printing in mind. He pointed out an issue that has been happening for some time but is now reaching worrying proportions: that of stolen 3D designs sold for a profit. How can designers protect themselves and what are the implication of a phenomenon which we could define is basically a form of “person to person IP theft”?
ShareMy3D is an Oslo-based company that was recently founded with the aspiration to fill in the void that exists in 3D files communication between businesses. The company launched an online platform that enables anyone people to transfer and view large 3D files with unmatched speed and security, two elements that hold critical importance in the 3D business world.
Threeding (contact them via their directory page) a leading startup for 3D printable models, and Artec 3D, possible the most succesful developer and manufacturer of prosumer level 3D scanning hardware and software, have teamed up for the 3D digitization and availability of 55 3D printed endangered birds and bird species.
It is not our intention to compare ourselves to Caravaggio. It would only be presumptuous, to say the least. However, we would like to explain the tremendous and demanding work of modelling (and not just that!) that was carried out to replicate the Flagellation of Christ in 3D and how this goes a long way to demonstrate that 3D printed art is coming of age.
Ever since the low cost 3D printing industry exploded as a consumer phenomenon (because it has, hype or no hype), it became clear that some of the most fascinating and important applications were in the care for small groups of people with specific requirements. In few of these the benefits have been clear than in 3D printing for the blind.
Tech startup Gravity Sketch is finally launching its much awaited Gravity Sketch Ap ...
More affordable, more customizable, more elegant and, soon, available to anywhere in the world: this is the future of 3D printed customized jewelry. The Jewelry Maker app on Google Play, by Taiwan based Elements Lab, is quite literally bringing 3D printed jewelry it to everyone’s fingertips.
Finland born, Netherlands raised Janne Kyttanen is one of the foremost visionaries of innovative 3D printing applications. His work continues to shake up the world of design at the Design Shanghai event, where he proposed several works in his latests collections: Them Romans and Rollercoaster Tables.