3D printing is actively acquires new areas of our life. Recently Radiological Society of North America has reported that 3D printing technology and computed tomography (CT) scans would be used to print precise copies of fossilized dinosaur bones.
There was a time, when the process of creating a book required much more effort than now. In European monasteries, monks rewrote books by hand, and it could take several years to copy one book. Of course, the progress was achieved with the spreading of woodblock printing. But due to the complication of the process,… Continue reading Breakthrough Technology of the Year 1450: The Printing Press
Samsung Origami, Clip and Mate printer concepts have picked up an award for the best industrial design in the category of the computer equipment at the 2013 International Design Excellence Award competition and may cause a new word in the printer industry. South Korean company has introduced an idea of an eco-friendly casing, folded by… Continue reading Samsung Clip, Origami and Mate: Mono Laser Printers With Ultimate Eco Casings
In a quest for excellence, technological companies try to optimize inventions bulky at first (like PCs and telephones) and make it smaller, more productive and more attractive, the trend, of course, has touched the printer industry. Following the trend, ZINK Imaging Inc. has invented a new printing technology, which helps to archive the named goals… Continue reading ZINK Zero Ink Printing Technology In A New Smart App Printer
Though the necessity of printing on a paper has diminished with the expansion of mobile devices, this function is still needed. If a printer has an option of Wi-Fi connection, printing is not a problem for any smartphone. But the bigger part of traditional printers doesn’t have a Wi-Fi, and here the new software can… Continue reading Cloud Printing From Mobile Devices
Printers have become an ordinary part of everyday life, but there are people, who have invented some new ways of using printing technology like the following. Messages and images on the flower-buds With the Flower Jet printer short messages, images and even greeting cards could be printed on the delicate natural flower petals, not causing… Continue reading Unusual Printers To Make Life Brighter
You are probably familiar with the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) acronym, which stands for a property of programs to display an image that is close to the final result, whether it’s printed text or Web page. It seems like now the term can apply to printers as design studio Artefact introduced… Continue reading “See What You Print” Printer Concept
How do you like the idea of moving the wall, an integral part of today’s social networks, to the real world? Liat Segal is obviously a fan of social networking who wants to leave messages for friends not only on the virtual wall, but also on quite tangible one. To do so, Liat invented Cellular… Continue reading Cellular Wall Printer – Android-Device To Make Virtual Wall Real
Open3DP team at Washington University have been some pretty impressive results: it successfully printed the artificial bone with the help of 3D-printer. The hardest challenge in this case was the choice of material for bone. The experiments for 5 weeks with various mixtures of bone meal with other substances, the research team stopped at one… Continue reading 3D-printer Used For Printing Of Artificial Bones
As of today, all that we send into space is made here on Earth, and considerable money is spent on transportation of object to orbit. In sci-fi movies, we’ve seen orbital plants and factories building stations, ships, etc. Why can’t it be like that today? Experts of the Made In Space company will try to… Continue reading 3D-Printers: Now In Space