sand-fed 3-D printer, he knew the gray skies outside his London apartment wouldn t do.
##The idea for the printer first came to Kayser a few months earlier. He wanted to find a project in which the sun did more than just power a device.
Markus Kayser s homebuilt 3-D printer created this glass bowl out of heated sand from the Sahara For the printer to work efficiently
the printer uses the concentrated beam of sunlight to slowly trace an object into the sandbox layer by layer.
The printer s motors the electronics, cameras and a laptop all run on batteries charged by the solar panels PRINTING Kayser first designs the object he wants to print in a CAD program.
His computer sends instructions to the printer, which works from the bottom up. After a layer has cooled into glass,
he adds more sand to the sandbox in the center of the machine and flattens it out,
and the printer begins heating the next layer. Kayser s first major piece, a bowl, took about four and a half hours to print.
keep the printer powered . since the panels are attached to the same arms as the lens,
a transparent display specialist and military head up screen supplier, is wading into the wearable computing market, revealing a new#developer#kit that, unlike#Google s Glass, offers full augmented reality support.
but where Google s headset has a small display-block suspended in the corner, the entire right lens of the Lumus wearable is in fact a 640 x 480 display.
That means developers building apps for the Android-powered headset can overlay graphics directly on top of the real-world view
but it has some history in#wearable#displays. The company developed a patented##Light-guide Optical Element##(LOE) in effect a tiny projector that projects onto a special lens
including the helmet displays the US Air force has deployed in the F-16 and A-10. The company s consumer plans have been a little later to the game,
Whereas the last Lumus prototype we saw#the OE-31 wearable display back in March 2012#was somewhat geeky in its appearance,
The VGA-resolution display with 25-degree field of view is integrated into the right lens, while the block section on the side accommodates the 5-megapixel camera,#
important when you want to exactly match what s on-screen with what s in front of the wearer.
It s not the first lens-as-display wearable we ve seen in recent months,
that has two transparent screens, one for each eye, unlike the single-display Lumus. Unfortunately, while Lumus intends to start shipping the DK-40 monocular dev kit at the end of Q1 2014,
The end-goal is still to sell the displays to other companies who will put them into their own consumer products,
decorated with Star wars and Pac-Man murals and lines of code running off wall-mounted screens that show the hacking taking place live.
Spiderfab 3-D robotic printer Since the 1970##s, space-based solar power has been a futuristic fantasy
but the advent of 21st#century 3-D printing may bring it a step closer to reality.
Inc. TUI has won two rounds of funding for its Spiderfab 3-D robotic printer from the#NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts#(NIAC) program.
##3-D printing and robotic construction of components on-orbit would allow a smaller, less expensive launch rocket that will##improve performance per cost by orders of magnitude,
Once#in space, TUI s Trusselator, the first step in the Spiderfab architecture, would use 3-D printing techniques
First, the 3-D printer would build a carbon fiber truss structure that would act as a frame for the system.
With the reductions in volume and mass promised by 3-D printing, those launch costs could be reduced significantly,
##and Lobbyists who protect#other energy sources subsidies#who would be##out of their jobs###The term 3-D printing has become a catch-all for a number of purposes
They plan on doing that with 3-D printing.####The company has inked a deal#with 3d Systems, a global 3-D printing manufacturing company,
to help produce parts of the phone. Assuming the projectstill officially in developmenttakes off, 3d Systems would be#a##multi-year###production partner, making smartphone##enclosures and modules##for the Google-owned phone company.
as if it was ink in ordinary, everyday desktop printers, and will adhere to surfaces as diverse and supple as rubber, paper, cotton T-shirts,
or printing detailed jewelry or metal ornaments. The Mini Metal Maker is built around the concept of using the minimum number of parts
so that it can be printed easily on low cost printers such as the Makerbot and Reprap.**Refine custom firmware for the printer to further optimize printing for clay.*
*Create the Mini Metal Forge software environment in order to foster a good user experience, particularly for the nontechnical craftsperson.*
A small display and a fancy magnetic strip let you choose from a range of your cards and memberships before paying.
and the small display shows you what you have selected with a nickname, the last four digits of the card,
Thanks to the power and versatility of 3d textile#printing, the Tamicare company has created a biodegradable
since the folks at Solid Concepts have fired already successfully their handgun 50 times without it failing. 3d printers capable of printing metal are#on the rise,
#Vision-correcting electronic display could free users from eyeglasses The idea is to anticipate how your eyes will naturally distort whatever's on screen.
The technology uses algorithms to alter an image based on a person's glasses prescription together with a light filter set in front of the display.
In addition to making it easier for people with simple vision problems to use all kinds of displays without glasses
whose display they had affixed an acrylic slab topped with a plastic screen pierced with thousands of tiny, evenly spaced holes.
Gordon Wetzstein, who coauthored the paper while a research scientist at MIT s Media Lab, says the screen allows a regular two-dimensional display to work as
what's known as alight field display. This means the screen controls the way individual light rays emanate from the display, leading to a sharper image without degrading contrast.
The researchers tested out their device by using a Canon DSLR camera with the focus set to simulate vision problems like farsightedness.
Wetzstein says the next step is to build prototype displays that people can use in the real world something he expects could take a few years.
when we look at a display that doesn t look right, we tend to naturally move around to improve the focus.
says that if researchers used a display with a high enough resolution about double the 326 pixels per inch of the ipod Touch used in the paper the technology could be made to be used by more than one person at once.
Video)# The Makerbot printers, which range from a compact $1, 375 model to a high-end $2,
It s really about bringing about new innovation to customers. 3-D printers can whip up everything from#vagina selfies#to#handguns,
said Pettis of the current fleet of Makerbot printers, You can t use it as a hammer.
Downey said customers typically use the printers for personalization projects, like a Chicago father who Downey said purchased a Makerbot to print custom furniture for his daughter s dollhouse.
The current generation of 3-D printers are still relatively slow#printing an item the size of a Lego brick can take roughly half an hour
Ten years from now, it will be quite common for people to have 3-D printers in their homes
In addition to Home depot, companies like#Amazon, Staples and Dell have joined the ranks of 3-D printer retailers.
but it has been held back by the difficulties in printing materials that are strong, flexible and can encourage the regrowth of healthy bone in the same way as current methods,
Now, researchers in the U s. have developed a new way of printing in calcium phosphate that can be done at relatively low temperatures which results in a scaffold that is mechanically strong
Inkjet printing of collagen solutions with high resolution has not been utilized previously in 3d printing of calcium phosphates
"And we know that the body displays things that sometimes people try to keep contained.
rechargeable batteries that can be printed cheaply on commonly used industrial screen printers. The California startup has been testing its ultrathin zinc-polymer batteries in wrist-worn devices
where she collaborated with a researcher in Japan to produce microscopic zinc batteries using a 3-D printer.
and one is displays, says Steven Holmes, vice president of the New Devices Group and general manager of the Smart Device Innovation team at Intel.
but these printers costs range from $75, 000 up to over $1 million. Most individuals, and even a lot of businesses end up having to sit on the sidelines only dreaming that one day these prices will fall.
I saw some 3d printed objects that were unlike those on display by other companies. When I picked them up,
I found that this 3d printer did not fit into the same category as those other machines on the display floor.
That printer was the#Mcor IRIS, created by a company called Mcor Technologies. Mcor is a relative newcomer on the 3d printing scene.
a water-based adhesive, inkjet printer ink, and your standard A4 business paper. That s right, no expensive polymers, resins,
and the full-color IRIS printer which was released in 2012. Both printers utilize a technology called Selective Deposition Lamination (SDL.
In SDL, standard sheets of paper, like you currently use with your desktop printer, are fed into the machine.
The initial sheet is bonded to the build plate, then the printer deposits an adhesive and follows by stacking another sheet of paper on top.
This occurs until the printer is ready to begin the actual cutting and printing of the object.
It begins to stack the paper using a process that selectively deposits a water-based adhesive to each individual sheet of paper,
there is an additional step involved where each piece of paper is colored using a modified 2-dimensional inkjet printer,
This allows for the printing of objects that can look extremely realistic. As you can imagine,
and then 3d print their faces in full color with the Mcor IRIS. The resulting facial 3d prints were on display in a gallery in Europe.
a price that is pennies in comparison to some of the other industrial level printers on the market today.
due to the fact that many of them are only obtainable through the manufacturer themselves, Mcor printers use simple A4 business paper.
once the printing of an object is complete. If you don t like how an object turns out,
allowing their printers to print objects that look extremely realistic. This means that photographers, engineers and designers can all take photographs
Likewise, a company s logo will be the same colour on the computer screen as on a model 3d printed by the Mcor IRIS because of our ICC profile.
The so-called Fingerreader, a prototype produced by a 3-D printer, fits like a ring on the user s finger, equipped with a small camera that scans text.
The Fingerreader can read papers, books, magazines, newspapers, computer screens and other devices, but it has problems with text on a touch screen,
said Shilkrot. That s because touching the screen with the tip of the finger would move text around,
producing unintended results. Disabling the touch-screen function eliminates the problem, he said. Berrier said affordable pricing could make the Fingerreader a key tool to help people with vision impairment integrate into the modern information economy.
Retail UPS stores carrying pay-peruse printers, Makerbots in every school, a new brick in the Great Wall,
refinement, and much better printers and software. Eventually, printing clothes is going to be as easy as ordering a burger and fries from your smart watch.
Print green t-shirt, wear for a day, throw in the recycler, print blue-t-shirt (with recycled clothes matter) for tomorrow.
The cheap printing of socks and underwear doesn t look that far off, except that, unsurprisingly,
allowing the printer to lay down more material with the same number of movements. But thicker layers means sacrificing the printer s resolution,
because the place where one layer ends and the next begins becomes obvious. So a national lab and a corporation set out in the past year to completely reinvent the concept of the 3d printer.
Oak ridge s monster machine Oak ridge National Laboratory decided to make a faster printer by embracing thicker layers.
which reported that BAAM is capable of printing objects as large as tables and chairs by extruding plastic in layers 0. 3 inches wide.
Chairs recently on display at the RAPID conference each took about 2 hours and 30 minutes to print.
On a normal printer, a chair would take days to print and need to be printed in pieces.
The printers deposit different colors and types of materials on phones whizzing past them on an oval-shaped track.
or a few nozzles to switch back and forth between colors. 3d Systems does make a line of color printers,
which have driven heavy interest in the 25 year old professional printer industry, only appeared 10 years ago.
and displays that information right on the outside of the cup. In a perfect world, you adjust your exercise intake accordingly.
That display is also customizable. In addition to calories, you can track, say, caffeineand make sure you re not ODING in the morning,
Every 5 minutes, a signal is sent wirelessly from a glucose monitor under the user s skin to an iphone app,
and matte paint and developed the augmented reality display system from scratch. The cost of each grid room is relatively low,
when University of Illinois computer scientists showed off an immersive holograph room, CAVE2, that projected images on an array of LED screens.
and a wand allowed them to interact with the objects on the screens. One setting they mocked up?
Like other computerscreens, the room displays inputs processed elsewhere. That means Lowe s has to scan every item before it can appear in the Holoroom.
This information is displayed on a touch screen in the dressing room, and if a customer desires a different size or color,
they can simply click on the changes on the screen. The system has a real time registry of the store s inventory
In addition, the touch screen can suggest complementary or similar items, which can also be requested for retrieval.
where startup Ostendo Technologies Inc. has spent the past nine years quietly working on miniature projectors designed to emit crisp videos and glasses-free 3-D images for smartphones and giant screens.
but what is missing is comparable advancement in display. The race to disrupt the screen is intensifying as both upstarts
and technology giants try to find new ways to bring content to life. Microsoft corp. and Advanced micro devices Inc. are both working on their own virtual reality rooms
According to Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at the Massachusetts institute of technology, who is working on 3-D displays for MIT s Media Lab,
The Retina display on Apple Inc. s#iphone, for example, has about 300 dots per inch,
the larger vision is to have Ostendo s chips everywhere electronic displays are needed, whether it is a glasses-free 3-D television screen, a smartwatch,
or tables that can project hologram-like images. So what happens in a world where 3-D
and check their stats on the screen projected at the front of the room. When the bell rings, its time for a random event,
which together would monitor, predict, cultivate and extract crops from the land with practically no human intervention.
despite the excitement that 3-D printing has generated. It can be used to make complex shapes,
But what if 3-D printers could use a wide assortment of different materials, from living cells to semiconductors, mixing
This means 3-D printing technology could make objects that sense and respond to their environment. ntegrating form and function,
s the next big thing that needs to happen in 3-D printing. A group at Princeton university has printed a bionic ear, combining biological tissue and electronics,
But even among these impressive efforts to extend the possibilities of 3-D printing Lewis lab stands out for the range of materials
In a basement lab a few hundred yards from Lewis office, her group has jury-rigged a 3-D printer, equipped with a microscope,
Another, larger 3-D printer, using printing nozzles with multiple outlets to print multiple inks simultaneously,
and easily destroyed as they are forced through the printing nozzle. In all cases, though, the inks must be formulated to flow out of the nozzle under pressure
Before coming to Harvard from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign last year, Lewis had spent more than a decade developing 3-D printing techniques using ceramics, metal nanoparticles, polymers,
Printing blood vessels was an encouraging step toward artificial tissues capable of the complex biological functions found in organs.
Most of us on our small team are musicians who are tired of being stuck behind computer screens, keyboards, faders
-more than most MIDI controllers on the market all without having to even look at a screen during performance.
and use to follow a line of text in a book or on a screen.
The company says its technology places each word at the optimal location on the screen,
A device that allows desktop 3d printers to print in color for less than $100 Full color printing is generally a privilege limited to professional and high-end consumer 3d printers,
so the more casual user is stuck likely printing in one or two colors. But Cédric Kovacs-Johnson and Charles Haider, both chemical engineering undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, say they have come up with a solution:
FDM printers melt string-like plastic bit by bit and lay it down in layers to create an object.
allowing printers to shift between colors. hat we find really innovative in our approach is we went back to the roots of paper printing
a desktop printer maker that has been teasing the community for years with its full-color printing abilities,
Spectrom doesn require a specialized printer to work. The idea is that you install it on your existing printer
and youe ready to go. Your computer outputs code that tells the device when to switch between colors
and your printer operates as if it was printing with a regular filament spool. The duo didn arrive at the method immediately.
and as a result are focused on making sure it is compatible with any printer. e want to get it out to as many people as possible,
#3d printing may finally give artificial organs a blood supply Vascularized tissue constructed by printing cell-laden inks in a layered zigzag pattern.
Using a custom-built four-head 3-D printer and a isappearingink, materials scientist Jennifer Lewisand her team created a patch of tissue containing skin cells and biological structural material interwoven with blood-vessel-like structures.
The tissue is built by the 3-D printer in layers. A gelatin-based ink acts as extracellular matrixhe structural mix of proteins and other biological molecules that surrounds cells in the body.
All these inks are viscous enough to maintain their structure after being laid down by the printer.
and we think it going to be essential toward organ printing or regeneration, says Lewis, who is member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard university.
The hope is that the 3-D printing method will set the overall architecture of blood vessels within artificial tissue
The team plans to create a prototype that entirely self-contained by replacing the external tracking system with tiny integrated displays like O-LED
and E Ink displays that are sensitive to the user movements. They expect to have a working prototype in another 12 to 18 months.
devices that combine the flexibility of touch screens with the physical qualities that real-world controls provide.
Paddle could also provide a welcome relief to those who struggle with touch screens, such as the elderly.
and even data-conditional transactions, in which a script uses a data input such as a regular Google search to monitor real-world events that would automatically trigger disbursements or other actions.
Watching the machine build through thelens of an electron microscope is otherworldlybut the printer s potential runs beyond microscale model making.
The printer s mirror-focused laser shines on and hardens a droplet of liquid plastic on a slide.
The technology involve a head-mounted display, custom video technology, and a targeted molecular agent that makes cancer cells glow
and the ability to support up to six high resolution remote displays s
#Mellanox Shows Record Performance with Connectx-4 100gb/s Interconnect Adapters Today Mellanox announced world-record performance on its Connectx-4 EDR 100gb/s Infiniband adapters.
which players are asked to mimic the facial expressions of a cartoonish character on the screen. Using Emotient's software the game assesses the player's success in recreating that expression and returns a score.
and a touch screen monitor to allow miners to interact with the system; according to the company worker simply scans their badge
with flange mounting options and a colour display controller mounted in a stainless steel enclosure. They can measure all types of Flotation Cell,
#'Astroskin'smart shirt monitors astronauts'health in Antarctica Remember that pivotal scene in the movie"Apollo 13"in which crewmembers rip the biomedical sensors off their bodies?
Astroskin, a prototype device to monitor astronaut health, is a garment that fits over a person's upper body
As GPS watches and blood-pressure monitors become the norm, researchers are now aiming for ideas such as headsets that could assist people with vision problems.
10 Scariest Sea Creatures The one-of-a-kind Exosuit on display at the American Museum of Natural history (AMNH) now through March 5 measures 6. 5 feet (2 meters) tall
and insects to monitor wind and navigate around obstacles in tight spaces lead researcher Ali Javey of Berkeley Lab's Materials sciences Division said in a news release.
There really only one that comes to mind printer ink. It never fails that when one of my sons needs to print out something for a big school project the ink runs out.
Just hit'print'From working guns to bionic ears 3-D printers are creating a variety of objects
But 3-D printers aren't just laying down plastics resins and nanoparticles they're also printing with dough vegetables and even meats.
Both engineers and gourmet chefs are experimenting with creating foods from 3-D printing. The technique allows them to produce foods in unique shapes
and textures and to streamline repetitive tasks like filling ravioli. 3-D food printers don't look like traditional printers.
Just like a regular printer the machine takes its instructions from a computer. Using software a 3-D representation of the food is created
Designers of commercial 3-D printers believe that in the near future we'll be able to download such recipes and print them in our home kitchens.
Take a look at the variety of food that can be made with 3-D printers. The Foodini made these chickpea nuggets as a healthier alternative to meat options.
TNO has experimented with printing pureed vegetables back into their original shape. Cornell University's Fab@Home can print ramen noodles in a variety of artistic shapes.
Though perhaps it's simply enough to be dazzled by displays of water bouncing around like balls. he material is so strongly water-repellent the water actually gets bounced offsaid Chunlei Guo a professor of optics
Flat-screen monitors were not available yet (that SGI 17-inch monitor in the photo was the first one sold
including that the big-screen television was going to follow the piano to the dump. I was wrong again.
Flat-screen LED TVS got so cheap and so big that people are now wallpapering their walls with them;
Nature News A transparent, flexible electrode made from graphene could see a one-atom thick honeycomb of carbon first made just five years ago replace other high-tech materials used in displays.
and Hong says that makes the material ideal for use in applications such as portable displays.
reporting results by clicking on relevant numbers in a grid on the screen. Using brain imaging techniques, the scientists measured levels and locations of dopamine receptors in brain areas of interest in each participant before and after training.
A PSA test is currently the most common, noninvasive means to screen for prostate cancer in the U s. PSA testing measures for elevated levels of prostate specific-antigen antigen,
as well as from Kenya, India, Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe, to screen for resistant coffee plants and to analyse varieties of the pathogen."
a satellite that will monitor natural disasters and measure atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. The extra cash will keep it on schedule for launch before April next year.
Massachusetts, would supply Sony Corporation of Tokyo with quantum dots for flat-screen televisions that will transmit more richly coloured images than other TVS on the market.
Demand for quantum dot displays, say industry watchers, could benefit quantum dot companies, bring down the price of these nanomaterials
"Displays are a potential market that could help quantum dot companies find traction, says Jonathan Melnick, an analyst at Lux Research in Boston, Massachusetts.
Near the backlight of a liquid-crystal display (LCD), for example, temperatures can be around 100#C. At this temperature,
The contrast with today s flat screens begins with the light source. Conventional LCDS use a high-intensity blue LED backlight
optoelectronics, including display components, will make up $310#million of a total $666 million in quantum dot revenues.
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