Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Hasso Plattner Institute have developed a new 3D printing ...

Although the things that can be done with 3D printers are certainly amazing, many 3D-printed plastic items still have a certain "look" to them. This is largely due to the fact that each item is all ...

Celestiq engineers aren’t just drawing up three-dimensional CAD files and pressing Ctrl+P, though. Before graduating to ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Firing an all-plastic gun is a dubious affair. The weapons can ...

A North Carolina-based plastics recycler is teaming up with a plastic film supplier and printer to make business cards from recycled plastic. Envision Plastics, headquartered in Reidsville, North ...

3-D printing technology is being harnessed to take pesky plastic waste to make human waste disappear via composting toilets. "You can use the soil that comes out of that for gardening - not crops that ...

The design studio Nervous System has created a novel process that allows a 3-D printed dress to move and sway like real fabric. The bespoke software behind it, called Kinematics, combines origami ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Alert Transportation Security Administration employees made a startling discovery at a Nevada airport early Monday morning. It looked like a real gun, but turned out to be replica that ...

Gun control is back in the spotlight – this time with a high-tech twist. A federal judge's temporary restraining order aims at blocking plans to upload blueprints necessary for a person to build a ...

Luke Heemsbergen is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He was a 2014 intern at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. August 11, 2014 Utopian visions of new ...