Tag: 3D Printing
Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson debuted DEFCAD, his open-source, unregulated search engine for 3d printing designs, at SXSW this week. Positioning itself as a renegade alternative to MakerBot’s Thingiverse, DEFCAD promises no takedowns of any designs and a focus on the “important things” that big business has an interest in regulating: drugs, medical devices, and […]
Are 3D-printed clothes the apparel of the future? A Dutch designer has already dabbled in that idea, and a new Michael Schmidt–Francis Bitonti collaboration has resulted in this mesh dress, precisely designed for Dita Von Teese to show off the medium’s potential for creating custom clothing. As evidenced by the photos above, 3D-printing also allows for the […]
Guns with 3D-printed parts are rather unnerving, and 3D-printed hamburgers sound gross, but on the more fun side of the spectrum, 3D-printed bongs exist, and have been uploaded to MakerBot’s Thingiverse file-sharing hub. The most elaborate pieces feature embellishments like Super Mario and a skull, which have been downloaded 92 and 90 times, respectively. The […]
Have you ever loved someone so much that you wished you could just EAT THEM UP, so they could be inside of you forever? You can. In Japan. Sort of. In honor of White Day (Japan’s second Valentine’s Day), the masterminds at Japanese bistro FabCafe will offer customers the unprecedented opportunity to purchase miniature 3D […]
Hanging from the ceiling of the Industry Gallery in Washington, DC are 3D-printed replicas of a real man’s organs, illuminated by neon tubes that have been shoved through them obtrusively. Other lifelike body parts float in vats of warm water saturated with a special powder that allows potassium aluminum sulphate crystals to grow– and thrive– […]
Though the potential consumer and commercial applications for 3D-Printing get wider every day, its high cost and high-tech wonkiness has prohibited it from becoming a household item. The 3Doodler, a handheld 3D-printing device that’s currently funding on Kickstarter, may change all that. “Everyone knows how to use a pen,” says Peter Dilworth, one of 3Doodler’s […]
The idea of growing a piece of meat in a lab, without an animal, is sure to make a few readers gag–and understandably so. But when considered against the monumental environmental (not to mention ethical) impact of factory farming, 3D-printed hamburgers and pork chops slowly become more appealing. In the above lecture from Solve for […]
Yesterday, the 3D-printed gun operation Defense Distributed –whom ANIMAL profiled recently— posted the above video, which shows an assault rifle emptying 30 rounds from a new 3D-printed magazine design. The magazine’s name? The “Cuomo” after the New York governor, who recently signed a bill banning all magazines larger than seven rounds. “He [Cuomo] wants to […]
A group of Scottish scientists has pulled off what they believe to be the first instance of 3D-printing using human embryonic stem cells. They believe the breakthrough could lead to synthetic organs used for drug testing–removing innocent animals from the process and giving more accurate results on how a drug interacts with human tissue–and eventually […]
It’s not just Romney and Obama anymore! Thanks to dropping costs and the nagging sense of terrible shame that comes with entering a sex shop no matter how liberated you are, custom, 3D-printed sex toys are now officially a “phenomenon,” according to Dezeen. There’s MakerLove and Dongiverse, two alternate-universe versions of Thingiverse that specialize in […]
