3D-printed Youbionic hand is the beginning of a ‘modular humanoid’ project
This 3D-printed bionic hand is controlled by muscle movement, making it a potentially useful tool for people with missing or partially-functioning hands.
3D-printed lace enclosures will ensure your shoes never come untied again
Ever have the problem of shoelaces that come undone? If so, then 3D printing gurus Noe and Pedro Ruiz have just the DIY project for you.
Here is how you can use a 3D printer to make your own camera lens filter
YouTuber Devin Montes breaks down how you can 3D print your own camera lens filter with his own examples. He's also giving away a free model.
Student develops cheap, functional prosthetic for senior thesis project
The prosthetic is simple in design, but it’s functional and allows users to hold a cup, write with a marker, and catch a ball just by moving their wrist.
Engineer plans his apartment floor layout by 3D-printing a scale model
Engineer Craig Broady recently built a 3D-printed scale replica of his new apartment to test out possible floor plans. The results are pretty awesome.
Live cell imaging can be carried out using 3D printing and a smartphone
Researchers have shown how smartphones, 3D printers, and an old microscope can make movies of living cells, minus the need for ultra-expensive equipment.
3D-printed bones could replace bone donations in treating landmine victims
-Researchers at the U.K.'s University of Glasgow are working on 3D-printing technology that can potentially help people who have lost limbs in explosions.
Kickstarter 3D printer will print circuit boards as part of your designs
Promising to act as a multi-material and electronics 3D printer in one, this Kickstarter printer is certainly exciting. Here's what you need to know.
Leave it to 3D: MIT engineers make printing electronic surfaces easier
A new nanotube ink developed by MIT researchers may offer a cheaper, easier, and faster means to manufacture products with interactive electronic surfaces.
Soon you’ll be able to 3D print chewing gum in any shape or flavor you want
3D-printed confectionery is all the rage, and German company Wacker has just announced its latest addition to a growing genre: 3D-printed chewing gum.
3D-printed mount turns four Sony cameras into a 360 video rig
When a media company couldn't find a suitable 360 camera, they designed their own using four Sony a7S IIs, a 3D printer and stitching software.
QuadBot is the 3D-printed, customizable crab robot that will teach you to code
QuadBot is a 3D-printed, 100 percent programmable, Arduino-powered walking crab robot; designed to transform you from zero to robotics hero.
You could soon have 'biofabricated' human tissue 3D printed in your hospital
QUT is in the process of constructing a "biofabrication" room meant for 3D printing bone, cartilage and other human tissue as it is needed.
One-handed teenage violinist receives customized 3D-printed prosthetic hand
A one-handed 14-year-old violinist named Sarah Valentiner has become the recipient of a 3D-printed prosthesis, thanks to Northern Illinois University.
Magic Candy Factory lets you 3D print any shape as gummy confections
With retail stores all over the world, the Katjes Magic Candy Factory offers sweet-toothed customers the chance to 3D print any shape in gummy candy form.
It won’t turn ghouls into dust, but this ‘Fallout 4’ rifle is a thing of beauty
A fan-made 'Fallout 4' rifle, created through 3D printing and a few electronic parts, is truly a sight to behold.
3D-printed cat’s tongue offers newfangled possibilities in plethora of products
An enlarged version of a cat's tongue could have a variety of uses in all kinds of products -- from hairbrushes to cleaning wounds to future robots.
Po 3D makes 3D-printed prosthetics affordable in its home country of Paraguay
Meet Po 3D, a 3D-printing company that is helping create affordable prosthetics for the people of Paraguay.
Personalized 3D-printed organ models show pre-op patients what they’re facing
3D printing giant WhiteCloud is offering personalized full color pre-surgery educational models for patients, based on their CT/MRI scans.
3D printing will correct your smile from the comfort of your own home
The world’s “first digital brand for your smile” is offering custom-made invisible aligners you can be fitted for from the comfort of your own home.
If you can fit it in your pocket, you can 3D print it with the PocketMaker
A team of Chinese entrepreneurs developed the PocketMaker 3D, a printer with a price tag so low that almost anyone can afford it.
Ingenious 3D printed brackets make it ridiculously simple to build your own wooden furniture
Using 3D printing and local materials, Standard Products is a new take on furniture design for the digital generation, based around user customization.
New 3D-printing software allows surgeons to quickly design titanium facial implants
Experts in the U.K. have created software that lets surgeons quickly and easily design 3D-printable titanium implants for patients with facial injuries.
Hold the universe in your hands with this 3D-printed model of the CMB
You can now hold the universe in your hand with a tiny 3D-printed model of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the oldest light in the universe.
Scientists just made 3D printed magnets, and they have some attractive new properties
Researchers at Vienna University of Technology have invented a way to print permanent magnets using a regular 3D printer.
CompREST is a compactable foam camping mattress that sucks in a good way
Say goodbye to leaky air mattresses with CompREST, a vacuum-seal camping mattress that mixes the portability of an air mattress with the durability of foam.
In your face, science! This 3D printed structure shrinks when heated, expands when cooled
Virtually every solid material expands when it is heated. However, a new materials science research project wants to buck the trend.
Return to Sender: Competition offers chance to 3D print on the International Space Station
Engineers may gain access to the ISS 3D printer through a new competition to create new designs for objects that can be printed in microgravity.
Ultimaker 3 is a desktop 3D printer that can print two materials at once
The Ultimaker 3 is a newly launched desktop 3D printer with a dual-extrusion system for printing two materials at once.
3D-printed basket earrings will catch your falling wireless AirPods
Micro 3D-printer company M3D has created a pair of mini-basket earrings, which promise to catch Apple's futuristic AirPods if and when they fall out.
Forget impressionism, this artist is growing a real skeletal human hand in a lab
In a jaw-dropping blend of art and science, new-media artist Amy Karle is growing a skeletal human hand in a lab.
Dewpal, a 3D-printed water collector, is inspired by a desert beetle
This 3D-printed water collector could help people in parts of the world where water scarcity is a major problem.
YouTuber’s 3D-printed ‘Geared Whiplash’ is the best would-be desk toy ever
Puzzlemaster Oskar van Deventer's 3D-printed 'geared whiplash' is the would-be desk toy we didn't know we desperately wanted.