What 3D printing really offers artists and designers
3D printing guru Professor Richard Hague discusses what the real possibilities for makers are – and what he's researching for the future.
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Prototype lets you control Google Glass-type headset through touch
DoCoMo may have found the way to beat Google Glass's one drawback: the lack of a physical interface on which the user can click, drag or navigate content.
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Discover a 3D printer that uses paper instead of plastic
Sugar confectionery can be serious craftwork--amateurs need not apply. But once you witness the culinary genius of a certain 3D printer, you'll question whether we need human candy makers at all.
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3D-printed food could revolutionise cake decoration, allow you to print your lunch
Using a 3D printer to produce sugarcraft is just the beginning – you could soon print an entire meal.
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See the 3Doodler pen in action at its public debut
The 3Doodler is a pen-shaped 3D printer that works like a glue gun and lets you draw real, three-dimensional models.
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Google set to launch Glass app store
Google is ramping up plans to open an app store focused solely on Google Glass, the computerized eyeglasses expected to launch in 2014.
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Discover how the Microsoft Kinect can be used to create amazing interactive projects for clients & good causes
Be inspired by experiential and interactive design projects based around Microsoft's motion sensor.
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New service aims to tackle 3D printing piracy
SendShapes aims to accomplish for 3D printing what Netflix is doing for video streaming.
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Fuel3D £700 3D scanner takes over £180,000 to smash Kickstarter goal
The scanner takes aim at owners of 3D printers, plus 3D artists who want to quickly create 3D models.
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Google Glass for glasses wearers due in next few months
A version of Google Glass for people who already wear glasses will arrive in a few months, the head of the Google project said Monday.
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Microsoft explains how Xbox One's Kinect can tell players apart
At a conference at Stanford University, the Xbox One's creators explained how its Kinect works to be better than the previous generation.
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Makerbot's desktop scanner for 3D printers will cost you £900
Makerbot's Digitizer desktop 3D scanner, which can scan an object and replicate it in digital form for a 3D printer, is now for sale.
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Artist uses Lego to turn Nintendo 64 consoles into Transformers
While I love posting interesting Lego projects, never before has it been so exciting to write about Lego as right now.
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Limited edition 3D-printed skull cases created for 3D scanner
3D artist Joshua Harker has created the cases for Fuel3D’s 3D scanner as part of its Kickstarter campaign.
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Ubi lets you use a Kinect & projector to create truly interactive presentations
Discover a £95 tech that could help you really impress clients when pitching websites and other interactive projects.
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Next-gen car tech designed at Ford's hackathon
We visit a meeting of interaction designers and programmers playing with Ford's OpenXC plaform for turning cars into tech playgrounds.
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Mens Amplio shoots fire based on your thought patterns
We visit a large-scale interactive art project built using a brain reader, a Raspberry Pi, quite a lot of steel and flamethrowing pyrotechnics.
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Design a 3D printed toy in Photoshop
Steve Caplin reveals how to model a toy entirely in Photoshop, then print it using a 3D printer.
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Siggraph 2013: MIT taps Pixar's creative process to help make designing models for 3D printers easier
A research project taps into Pixar's Renderman software to make complex modelling easier.
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3D printers 'may be poisonous'
3D printers may be poisoning the very air you breathe. At least that's the possible findings of one study from the Illinois Institute of Technology.