About 500 million printer cartridges end up in landfills each year worldwide, says European Toner and Inkjet Remanufacturers Association. These “empty” cartridges can contain up to 8 percent of unused residual powder by weight and could leach compounds into the soil and underground water sources. In an attempt to reuse this electronic waste, researchers have… Continue reading Printer Toner Can Be Recycled to Iron
Scientists in Israel say they have created a ‘revolutionary concept’ for the 3D printing of food based on a new raw material, Crystalline Nano Cellulose (CNC). They claim the technology will lead to the production of ready-to-eat foods for people with special dietary needs, while also helping to tackle food security problems. The system was… Continue reading Food Printing Technology to Serve Diet Needs
Continuing the column “What else can we print on a 3D printer?”, we should mention a recently improved technology, allowing to use glass as a 3D printing material. The scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) detailed their findings online in the journal Nature and are spinning off a company to commercialize the technology.
The whole world is rather excited about 3D printing. The scientists from different countries are trying to adopt the technology for different industries’ needs, make it cost-efficient. Very often the news come from top and less famous universities announcing the new 3D printing projects and researches. Founded in 1965 Sweden’s fifth oldest university—Umeå University—is no… Continue reading ‘HangPrinter’ Making a Tower of Babel [+ VIDEO]
With all the plans about long lasting space missions including that to the Moon and Mars NASA is thinking how to feed astronauts who take part in these occasions. There are several problems concerned with this one: food can’t be kept fresh for a long time; today’s existing way of space feeding includes freeze-dried “space… Continue reading Space-approved 3D Printed Pizza [VIDEO]
With each passing day, the devices belonging to the IoT (Internet of things) become more mobile. Say, earlier, printers were used as intended – meaning only for printing, but now almost every decent machine provides mobile connectivity and cloud services, which makes them vulnerable to an illegal use, for example in hacker’s attacks, or may… Continue reading New Level Of IoT Security With HP
No doubt, children are usually more easygoing and adaptable than adults, and being born without a hand, of course, leaves its imprint and causes moral pain, but accepts easier by children than an adult being injured at a mature age. Being different from the others is a great challenge to any person especially of a… Continue reading 3D Printers Lending A Helping Hand To Disabled Kids
Not so long ago, a new start-up was launched. It is a fashion start-up—the tech cobbler company Feetz. The main goal of it is to 3D-print and sell shoes. And though the business exists about two years and the distribution is not very big, the company has already got its clients, constant income and steadily… Continue reading 3D-Printed Shoes Are Now Reality
Lockheed Martin is one of the largest producers in metal 3D printing, aerospace and defense. This month, it has filed a patent application for a 3D printer that prints diamonds. They will be synthetic and will be produced from poly(hydridocarbyne), a carbon-based pre-ceramic polymer with structural similarities to diamonds. The corporation aims to use this… Continue reading Lockheed Martin’s Patent Application for a 3D Printer Producing Diamonds
Several designers from Europe has recently teamed up to organize a pop-up restaurant where everything is 3D printed including furniture, cutlery and food. The Food Ink restaurant is now in London, and it appears to be an exhibition of a 3D printing technology during a daytime while anyone could watch 3D printers at work and… Continue reading Everything Is 3D Printed—In A Restaurant