Possibility gives the power

Taking a look to the tons of videos regarding CES 2015, I found this one:

This guy was born without an hand and thank to a 3D printed hand and some sensor attached on his arm muscles, he can finally have a second hand! This could never be possibile 10 year ago and will be much more disruptive in the next 10 years.

Imagine you can print your own special hand directly at home, fitting the special work you’re doing. Human evolutions through 3D printed body parts at home, like in the Schismatrix Sterling novel.

Possibility is the power.

3D printing Nutella!

3d printing nerds are crazy. Automating the Nutella spreading process is the aim of this new useless gadget presented on kickstarter: Cub3r. 100 points for the courage but I really don’t think the would achieve the goal. Good luck guys!

Here’s the project:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robtwil/cubr3-the-bread-spread-machine/widget/video.html

Hybrid is the way!

In history, most of the inventions had to pay for legacy systems before they had to be accepted and used by people. One of the recent Pixar film “Planes” shows a funny character, Franz Fliegenhosen that’s half car and half plane.
This is not an invention, it’s a true 1954 project named Taylor Aerocar. Recenltly Terrafugia designed a new and modern version of that aerocar. The dream is still alive.

Aerocar Franz Fliegenhosen

So, why am I talking about flying cars?

The answer is simple: personal flying objects must deal with a big legacy barrier and may be the way to convince people accept them is to pass through an hybrid version. You will not lose your car, you will also get a flying one!
Could this be one of the way for a 3D printers to breakthrough into our house?

A 3D printing computer. A sort of computer integrated into a 3D printer with all the specialized software and specific support for it’s hardware. This is my weird idea.

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3D printing killer feature to be searched into organized crime?

When we build things, apps, we always think about the their killer features. Why should people buy your “thing” rather than another one? There is an old silly comic strip I have printed and attached to the wall some years ago, that’s about Android vs iPhone.

Sometimes killer feature is simply openess to another system. For example explosion of Bitcoin must be strictly analyzed with its adoption as standard currency for illicit trafficking on the net (Silk road case). The first of October Europol arrested 31 people in a operation against Bulgarian criminal dealing with credit cards frauds. They used 3D printed equipment to manufacture fake plastic card slot bezels to be installed on ATMs and to manipulate POS terminals.

Is this a fresh start of a new age? Can “Bitcoin + 3D printing” build the base for the new organized crime age out of the standard controlled system? Should we find the 3D printing killer feature into organized crime?

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ner3d.com @ Rome #Makerfaire 2014

I had great time yesterday at Makerfaire. The event took the Auditorium space and was really big. If I had to find two words to describe it, i would use 3D PRINTING. This was the real added value to almost every showroom I visited. 3D printing does not only helps to make 3D printed stuff at home. 3D printing helps to prototype working things to help people in the world. It seemed to me that most of the projects would have never started up if the could not rapid prototype something.

I’m taking the example of an arm to let deaf-mute people have distance communication by replicating locally the gesture language. Everything, from the simple toy to the specialized technology, started from a 3D self-printed part. This is the fact and no one can cancel it.

Beyond the makers and beyond the faire there’s technology, and the technology that made all this possible was affordable 3D printing.

METAL 3D printing on Kickstarter

Aurora Labs launched a Kickstarter campaign for their new and affordable metal 3D printing. Up to 20 different materials in 3 printers!

Aurora Labs Founders

Take a look for the specifications on their kickstarter campaign HERE.

Andiamo – 3D printed orthotics on Indiegogo

Andiamo is a campaign launched on Indiegogo by Naveed and Samiya Parvez whose purpose is building a service with children and families to reduce wait times from 6 months to just a few days for back braces, hand splints, and ankle foot orthoses. Using 3D scanning and printing we can not only make them quickly but also increase quality.

Support  the campaign and help them to help people.

https://www.indiegogo.com/project/andiamo-3d-printed-orthotics-for-disabled-kids/embedded/4551924

Fist full 3D printed ESTATE!

Architect Adam Kushner announced that the first 3D printed Estate will be built by KUSHNER Studios in Gardiner, New York, and will include a pool, pool house, and 2,400-square-foot main house–all. The printer that will be uses is a modified versione of a D-shape printer made by an italian inventor Enrico Dini. Here you can find a full interview with A. Kushner and the project plan ands photos. http://www.6sqft.com/interview-architect-adam-kushner-on-building-the-worlds-first-3d-printed-estate/ if you want to know more about Enrico Dini, look at this youtube video:  

thanks to http://www.6sqft.com for the post image

What’s next in 3D printing

If you ask yourself or you’ve been asked from someone else “what do you do with a 3D printer?” and you could not give an exact answer, may it’s the wrong question.

“Many people ask me when we’ll have a 3D printer in every home. I think it’s the wrong question to ask. The right question to ask is ‘How will 3D printing change my life'”.

Listen to Avi Reichental TED talk by clicking on the image below. 

“By standing in this shoes I’m honoring my past while manufacturing the future”.

Thanks Avi.

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3D printing, not only Plastic!

There’s a lot talking about 3D printing these days and most of the focus is on materials we can use. The new is that PLASTIC based components are not the only one we can print.

A 30 yo woman, HBS graduated named Grace Choi invented the first 3D printed Make Up (Mink).

The idea is simple: with a printer you can print every color you want and so, you can print the color you desire on her special mink printable lipstick, lip gloss, eye shadow, blush, nail polish, brow powder. After this, you can put it in your personal mink make-up case and bring it with you. If you are a blogger, you can instantly print the make-up you need and if you are a professional you can do it as well. For example you can take a picture of your client and figure out differents the make up before starting to work on her/him.

Take a look on the next video and have fun!

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