Smooth vanilla ice cream and cracking chocolate shell: Ice cream premium brand Magnum partners up with luxury Dutch fashion designer Iris Van Herpen and model Cindy Bruna to debut the world’s first haute couture vegan 3D-printed dress. Does the globally popular ice cream brand proclaim its ambition to break into the circular fashion industry?
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Every time trees are cut down, byproducts are created. For a long time, they were regarded as pure waste, yet they could benefit the printing industry. Thinking outside the box, a possibility presents itself: Many trees could be saved, if wooden objects would be printed from byproducts.
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Education officials in Malawi are thrilled: The world's first school has been printed in their country. How 3D printing can enable building 36 classrooms in just 10 years.
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“A waterless beverage” sounds not only futuristic but also impossible. However, this is not the case for the innovative US company Smart Cups that has developed a drink with printed ingredients in the cup. This sustainability-driven technology could be a path to the future of beverages and much more.
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Researchers and engineers in America are constantly developing and thus opening new possibilities for three dimensional printing – and it goes beyond creating machinery parts for the industry.
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A team of researchers from Purdue University teamed up with a young start-up to improve the way we are building offshore wind infrastructure, by developing a concrete mixture to use to 3D print anchors for wind turbines, traditionally manufactured by using finished steel.
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3D-printed prostheses are a thing of the past – 3D-printed dogs is the new big thing in the printing industry. Add a robotic body and the capacity for deep learning and you get Astro, the first 3D-printed robot dog that could provide people with a disability with a new sense of life.
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Morphing Matter Lab decided to use warpage to their advantage and create 4D-printed objects with it. In the future, this technology might enable flat-pack furniture manufacturers to easily ship large pieces of furniture and revolutionise the industry.
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The additive manufacturing industry is slowly taking over the production of vehicles. One of the first of its kind, a fully 3D-printed motorcycle, was designed and produced by the start-up BigRep, but other companies are close in.
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When Mr. Stubbs was found tail-less, he was in danger of starvation. However, scientists from Midwestern University created a tail prosthesis made using a 3D printer.
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