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$1,500 Foodini 3D prints food with normal kitchen ingredients

Over the past several months, we’ve seen machines that 3D print food go from silly to intriguingly promising. One of the best we’ve seen so far is Foodini, a kitchen appliance...
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Rant: Spray and gascan nozzles equally idiotic

Last weekend, in a bizarre burst of energy that had me motivated me enough to spraypaint a rusty old Charmglow grill that had become a certifiable eyesore, I dug up an old can...
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3D printing's fate according to a Technology Futurist

I recently had an exchange with Jordan Brandt, a Technology Futurist at Autodesk, about 3D printing. "3D printing is for the last mile of factory automation — so in the next couple...
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Bosch Rexroth: New manufacturing in the Rustbelt

Last week, I got the chance to tour the expanded facilities of Bosch Rexroth in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The new hydraulics manufacturing and distribution center houses the company...
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No brats here: FIRST students smart and earnest

A couple weeks ago at Cleveland's FIRST Robotics event, I got to meet about 250 high-school kids from about 30 out of the 57 school teams competing. They had great attitudes.
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How I 3D printed my face onto a sphinx, and how you can too

Our office just got our grubby little collective hands on an Afinia H-Series 3D printer. Naturally, the only choice I had was to immediately stop editing articles and monkey around...
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Rockwell rewards mishmosh of FIRST student designs

Rockwell Automation is passing out $10,000 to reward students who won the company's Engineering Our Future video contest. Winners were selected by popular vote.
Scan yourself and your friends! Then upload the scan to Shapify. Some days later, you’ll get your miniature figurines —1/20th physical representations of you and your compadres. Each figurine is $59 (with free delivery in the U.S. and all of Europe. Elsewhere? No worries: Artec says delivery services to other countries is coming soon.

Does this $59 3D-printed figurine make me look fat?

Artec Group now offers an online service at the website that lets you make accurate figurines of yourself and others. It uses a commercial 3D body sensor sold for use with the...
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Telepresence robot gives me wicked case of the giggles

Yesterday I took a test drive of a remote-presence device made by Suitable Technologies, and met my esteemed colleague and fellow editor, Bill Wong, of Electronic Design. Here...