Articles tagged "3D Printing"

Is This Lab-Grown Leather Vegan?

As you probably learned in college when you started wearing Doc Martin boots and smoking Marlboro Reds, leather jackets are expensive. That's because leather is expensive, and as cows continue to belch greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and require…

Scientists Can Now 3D Print Blood Vessels in Seconds

3D printing was already impressive. I mean, this is technology that can take a computer file and turn it into a real life thing. Pretty much anything, too — sculptures, burritos, human fetuses, bicycles, bones, cars, kidneys, assault weapons. One big…

Your 3D Printed Steak Is Served, But Is It Meat?

This is actually a thing on the horizon: meat created _in vitro_ by a 3D printer. "2,500 chicken breasts, please. I'll be back in an hour or so." Which is cool and all, but I think we're pretty much past the point of being shocked by the capabilities…

3D Printing an Exoskeleton for a Three Year Old

Three-year-old Emma has a condition known as arthrogryposis and, as a result, she's left with a super-limited ability to use her arms. Thankfully, we live in the future and doctors at a Delaware hospital were able to 3D print her a suitable exoskelet…

Do We Have the Right to Print Arms?

3D printers are all fun and games until somebody starts using them to make guns. That's exactly what an amateur gunsmith who goes by the handle "HaveBlue" has been working on for the past year, and he's now graduated from building a pistol that succe…