3-D Printing

Ban on 3-D printed Liberator handgun in US backfires

12 May 2013

Virtual blueprints for the world's first 3-D printable handgun found a safe harbour at file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, dodging a US government attempt to pull them off the internet.

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Activists up in arms over 3D-printed plastic gun

8 May 2013

Computer blueprints to create a plastic handgun almost entirely from parts made with a 3D printer have gone online, alarming gun control advocates after it was successfully test-fired by its...

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Lab Report

8 Apr 2013

Oxford University scientists have custom-built a 3-D printer that can create a new type of material with the properties of living tissues.

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Short Science, April 7, 2013

7 Apr 2013

British scientists have used a custom-made 3-D printer to make living tissue-like material that could one day serve medical purposes, according to findings published in US journal Science.

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3-D gadgets without the glasses

22 Mar 2013

Fancy watching a movie on your mobile phone, where figures leap out from the screen in 3-D, rather as Princess Leia did in that scene from Star Wars? That's the claim made by US researchers, who...

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That makes two of us: How bioengineers are using 3D printing to create body parts

18 Mar 2013

It was used to create haute couture dresses at January's Paris Fashion week, Valentine's Day chocolates in the shape of a person's face in Japan and, possibly soon - the European Space Agency is...

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