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3-D printing

Doctors Want to Use This 3-D Printed Ventilator Splitter Fabricated by a Group of Creatives

A nonprofit made up of artists, designers and creative thinkers has fabricated a ventilator splitter anyone with a 3-D printer can create, and that doctors are urgently requesting to use.
By Vivien Lee
Installation view of 'Matthew Angelo Harrison' at Culture Lab Detroit, Woods Cathedral, October 6, 2017.

Matthew Angelo Harrison’s 3-D Printed Sculptures Unmask Cultural Constructs

“Black identity is very confusing to be a part of, and I want to understand that, said Harrison.
By Sara Christoph
University students experiment with human-robot interaction and autonomous manipulation, two elements of manufacturing’s future.

To Really Help US Workers, We Should Invest in Robots

Today, the U.S. is leading the robotics revolution. But without timely investment, China will overtake us, and could permanently put Americans out of work.
By Nikolaus Correll
Molecular machines are ready to join forces and take on real-world work.

3-D Printing Turns Nanomachines Into Life-Size Workers

By Chenfeng Ke
Rendering of the interior of the Gilder Center.

Landmarks Commission Approves AMNH Expansion, Prince Laid to Rest in 3-D-Printed Urn

By Alanna Martinez
LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 07: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge applauds Germany's Martin Roth the Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum as he speaks on stage in his capacity as the representative of the winner of the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2016 prize at the Natural History Museum on July 6, 2016 in London, United Kingdom. The Art Fund Museum of the Year prize is awarded annually to one outstanding museum which has shown exceptional imagination, innovation and achievement in the preceding year.

Victoria and Albert Museum Director Resigns, Steve Jobs’ Turtleneck to Be Auctioned

By Alanna Martinez
Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi with one of her "Manko-chan" sculptures.

Japan’s Vagina Artist Pens Manga Memoir About…Surprise! Vaginas

By Alanna Martinez
Neri Oxman’s 3-D printed glass vessels at the Cooper Hewitt Triennial.

Does 3-D Printing Make Art Too Easy?

By Alanna Martinez
Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi, who calls herself Rokude Nashiko -- offensive slang which loosely translates as "reprobate child" -- shows small mascots shaped to represent a vagina, at a press conference after the first hearing of her trial in Tokyo on April 15, 2015. Igarashi, who has created genital-inspired artworks and was arrested last December on obscenity charges for distributing 3D scans of her own genitals, plead not guilty during the first hearing of her trial at the Tokyo district court.

Japan Finds Vagina Artist Guilty of Violating Obscenity Laws

By Alanna Martinez
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY PIERRE FEUILLY The mummy of an iceman named Otzi, discovered on 1991 in the Italian Schnal Valley glacier, is displayed at the Archaeological Museum of Bolzano on February 28, 2011 during an official presentation of the reconstrution. Visitors will get to see Iceman Oetzi under a new light starting on March 1 at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, which celebrates the 20th anniversary of the mummy's discovery. Based on three-dimensional images of the mummy's skeleton as well as the latest forensic technology, a new model of the living Oetzi has been created by Dutch experts Alfons and Adrie Kennis. AFP PHOTO / Andrea Solero

Artist Creates an Exact Replica of the ‘Iceman’ Mummy With 3-D Printing

By Alanna Martinez
Installation view of the PolyThread knitted textile pavilion, designed by Jenny E. Sabin, commissioned for Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial. Photo by Matt Flynn © 2016 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. PolyThread knitted textile pavilion, 2015–16 Designed by Jenny E. Sabin, Jenny Sabin Studio Design Team: Martin Miller, Charles Cupples Fabricated by Shima Seiki, WHOLEGARMENT Engineering Design by Arup Fabric finishing by Andrew Dahlgren Final finishing, sewing, and assembly by All Sewn Together 3D seamless Whole Garment digitally knit cone elements, photoluminescent, solar active and drake yarns; twill tape; aluminum armature Commissioned by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

The Future Is Now: Meet the Designers Building a Sustainable (and Beautiful) Future

By Alanna Martinez
Morehshin Allahyari's 3D print reconstruction of Lamassu, also destroyed by ISIS (2015).

These ISIS-Destroyed Artifacts Are Now Available to Download and 3-D Print

By Casey Quackenbush
A quagga.

Extinct Animals’ Skeletons Recreated Through 3-D Printing

By Guelda Voien
Bre Pettis

Bre Pettis

By The Editors
Model from a head scan of comedian/singer Reggie Watts via Makerbot

Makerbot Launches Web Series to Promote the World of 3-D Printing

By Ben Popper

3-D Printing Startup Makerbot Raises $10 Million From Foundry Group, Bezos

By Ben Popper
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