New grant will bring 3D printing pop-ups to Catawba College campus
Catawba College's Corriher Linn Black Library has been awarded a $15,000 grant for Digital Learning Lab pop-ups across the campus.
3D Printing
Fashionable Prosthetics Trade Realistic Color For Personal Pizzazz
A firm in New York is making brightly colored, personalized covers for prosthetic legs that each wearer helps design — sort of like a tattoo.
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Scientist 3D Prints Living Tissue
3D printing technology has been used to make toys, auto parts, and other goods. Now it's ears.
Engineers Create A Titanium Rib Cage Worthy Of Wolverine
Doctors say it's the first time a titanium sternum and set of ribs have been made with a 3-D printer. The custom-made device has already been implanted in the chest of a cancer patient in Spain.
Your Pill Is Printing: FDA Approves First 3-D-Printed Drug
The company that makes Spritam says the 3-D-printed pill dissolves quickly, even at the highest doses.
A 3-D Food Lab And Restaurant Wants To Turn Yuck Into Yum
A group of top chefs, food scientists and tech geeks have set up a lab in Belgium to master 3-D food printing. Their goal: to create nutritionally enhanced foods that appeal to the pickiest palates.
Baby Thrives Once 3-D-Printed Windpipe Helps Him Breathe
Michigan doctors used 3-D printing to custom-make a splint to prop open Garrett Peterson's defective windpipe last January. He's home with his parents this Christmas, as "normal life" begins.
High-Tech Maker Spaces: Helping Little Startups Make It Big
Inventing a new product is hard if you can't afford to build a prototype. Enter maker spaces, workshops boasting shared high-tech tools. Entrepreneurs love them, and big backers are taking notice.
3-D Printing A Masterwork For Your Living Room
It's now possible to create an impressive copy of Michelangelo's David or Rodin's The Thinker with a 3-D printer. Rather than object, some museum curators see this high-tech replication as a way to bring near-real versions of classic works to the masses.