Above: 3D printed chocolate head, anyone? Right now there is a Valentines Day special happening on FabCafe! Personally I think it's a little weird...
Enjoy this edition of 3D Print Weekly!
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Futuristic
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'"Right now, astronauts on the space station are eating the same seven days of food on rotations of two or three weeks," said astronautical engineer Michelle Terfansky, who studied the potential and challenges of making 3-D printed food in space for a master’s thesis at the University of Southern California. "It gets the job done, but it’s not exactly home cooking."'
Read more on Wired
Submitted by @praxxis
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"Using stem cells as the 'ink' in a 3-D printer, researchers in Scotland hope to eventually build 3-D printed organs and tissues. A team at Heriot-Watt University used a specially designed valve-based technique to deposit whole, live cells onto a surface in a specific pattern."
Read more on PopSci
Submitted by @BillTomiyasu
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Creative
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"Animation fans, using Sandboxr’s web-based software via laptop or tablet, can digitally pose character models, change their scale, give them accessories, create scenes, and then 3-D print their custom-built result for less than the cost of a movie ticket."
Read more on Wired
Submitted by @coliwilso
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Culture
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"Here’s the rub: 3D Systems spent just $14.3 million on research and development in 2011. That’s a paltry 6 percent of revenue. Its main rival Stratasys (SSYS) posted 2011 revenue of $155.9 million and spent $14.4 million on R&D."
Read more on Bloomberg Business Week
Submitted by @BillTomiyasu
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