3D printer uses living bacteria as ink, and could one day be used to treat burn wounds

Scientists from ETH Zurich invented a 3D printer ink that has the ability to incorporate living bacteria. “Flink” has the potential of many beneficial applications ranging from toxin detection in water tanks to skin replacement. Read more…More abou…

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A design studio is reducing a city’s plastic waste by using it to print street furniture.

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A design studio, called The New Raw is experimenting with using plastic waste as a raw material that can be used by 3D printers to create furniture. Their project called Print Your City aims to solve plastic’s biggest design problem—a material made to last forever, but used carelessly in a throwaway culture. Read more…

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MIT’s new desktop 3D printer technology increases speeds up to 10x

 There are plenty of reasons desktop 3D printing never really took off with consumers. Speed isn’t the main one, but it’s certainly up there. Mind you, this research is still probably a few years away from production, but a team of engineers at MIT have shown off a 3D printer capable of creating builds up to 10 times the speed of their consumer counterparts. Read More

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Divergent 3D taps a Chinese-led investment syndicate for up to $107 million in new funding

 On a lonely stretch of road just off the highway in Torrance, Calif. employees at Divergent 3D are hard at work plotting a revolution in vehicle manufacturing. Inside the nondescript office building, chief executive Kevin Czinger and his staff ar…

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Beheld is a new startup that lets you scan, send, and print yourself

 Kat Kinkead and Peter Weijmarshausen met at their old company, Shapeways. Weijmarshausen recently stepped down as CEO and was looking for something cool to do when he and Kinkead realized that the most popular application of 3D scanning and print…

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Beheld is a new startup that lets you scan, send, and print yourself

 Kat Kinkead and Peter Weijmarshausen met at their old company, Shapeways. Weijmarshausen recently stepped down as CEO and was looking for something cool to do when he and Kinkead realized that the most popular application of 3D scanning and print…

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Beheld is a new startup that lets you scan, send, and print yourself

 Kat Kinkead and Peter Weijmarshausen met at their old company, Shapeways. Weijmarshausen recently stepped down as CEO and was looking for something cool to do when he and Kinkead realized that the most popular application of 3D scanning and print…

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Markforged raises $30 million from industrial investors

 When Greg Mark takes his 3D printer to VCs he gets blank stares. The Boston-based CEO of Markforged, a 3D printing company that specializes in printing carbon fiber and metals, has found that few of them could understand his technology.
That’s why he turned to Microsoft Ventures, Posche, and Siemens-backed Next 47 for his next $30 million for his Series C. These industry-backed VCs… Read More

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