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There are numerous initiatives today showing how 3D printing helps art and history. This can be through creating complex shapes and new works, educating a wider audience, or preserving artefacts. By recreating a ruined monument for example, we preserve its…

HP is a huge company; well-regarded in the PC, notebook, and printing industries with over $48bn in revenue last year. Recently, HP have expanded into the 3D printing market too, rolling out their Multi Jet Fusion range of printers. This…

As a Brit, I am not currently very confident in my country’s economic state. We have voted to leave the area that supplies the majority of our trade, butchered the talks leading to our exit from the EU, and have…

This week’s Top 5 videos of the week are an interesting one. Some very innovative companies have created videos articulating how their new printers, processes, or structures will revolutionise industries. In addition, these companies pledge to use these to do…

Surgeons from France’s Amiens-Picardie University have used 3D printing alongside a robot to successfully perform surgery on a boy’s spine. The boy, 6, had been suffering from severe progressive scoliosis coupled with infantile spinal amyotraphy, rendering him unable to even…

After the success of BQ’s first Witbox printer, the Spanish brand has released the second version, Witbox 2. Known for its A4 format printing, the first version of the Witbox was released back in 2013, with the second version released…

For those who still have the mindset that 3D printing is an industry with huge barriers to entry, controlled by big companies with even bigger pockets, this might change your mind. This tiny 3D printer, made in San Diego by…

Ahead of Houston Maker Faire 2017, we spoke to Andrew Lynch, one of the many people behind making this event happen. Houston Maker Faire runs from the 21st to the 22nd of October 2017. To find out more information about…

Body Labs have announced that Amazon have acquired the start-up for an undisclosed amount. TechCrunch however have reported that the figure Amazon paid is between $50-70M. Body Labs are a start-up from New York that incorporate body scanning into 3D…

In another huge step towards fully 3D-printed rocket engines, NASA has successfully tested an igniter prototype made from two metal alloys. Engineers at NASA have been hard at work to produce this component using a new method of laser printing. As…

Valve, the company behind the Dota, Half-life, Portal and Left 4 Dead series’, has partnered with Shapeways to allow fans to reproduce and sell merchandise and figures from their favourite games. 3D printing is a very disruptive technology. It is…