3D Printers

GE has just opened a US$73 million Advanced Manufacturing Works plant in Greenville, South Carolina. Gizmag was on hand for the grand opening and has your sneak peek.

The latest 3D printer from Stratasys can build photorealistic prototypes in full color and using multiple materials in a single print process. It's the first of the company's Polyjet printers that can print in five colors – cyan, magenta, yellow, black and white.

Over the past few years, 3D printers have become more versatile and accessible to the average consumer. The OLO takes portability to the next level, given that millions already own half of the required hardware. It's designed to let users create 3D prints by using the light from a smartphone screen.

Mattel has announced that it’s bringing back the iconic ThingMaker toy making line, though this time in the form of a $300 3D printer designed specifically for kids. The device, along with a companion app, will allow users to design and print their own toys at home.

In a crowded field, the Ultimaker 2 Extended is one of the highest resolution desktop 3D printers available. It's larger footprint means it can also print larger, more complex projects than many of its brethren. Gizmag tried out this jumbo making machine to size up what it can do.

Startup Addibots is looking to help cut the man hours required to maintain our cities, wheeling out a roving 3D printing robot it imagines will scoot around town mending dodgy road surfaces.

The prospects for 3D printing may have just become a little bit stronger, literally, thanks to a new way of using metallic powders to create structures. A Northwestern University team has shown a new technique using liquid inks and common furnaces rather than more expensive lasers or electron beams.

Polaroid, the company perhaps best known for instant photo cameras, has jumped into 3D printers, announcing the new ModelSmart 250S at CES. The single extruder printer, made in partnership with UK inkjet cartridge maker EBP, will initially be available only to the European market.

Before the calendar keels over into 2016, let's take a wander through some of the year's most significant, salutary and attention-grabbing examples of science and technology.

​Glowforge 3D laser printer founder and CEO, Dan Shapiro sits down with Gizmag to talk about the market, the future and how pancakes relate to when the product will ship​.

Standing at 12 meters (40 ft) tall, the Big Delta, reportedly the world's largest delta 3D printer, will be used to build houses quickly and, through using locally available materials, inexpensively.

The list of materials extruded through a 3D printer seems to grow each week. And while previous glass 3D printing methods have used powdered glass and silica sand, a team of researchers led by Neri Oxman out of MIT’s Mediated Matter Group have developed a 3D printer that extrudes molten glass.