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December 31

 
 

Happy New Year!
Let's see what 2013 holds for 3D printing!

Love and rainbow filament, 
3D Print Weekly <3

 

The Future

 

20 Tech Trends That Will Define 2013, Selected By Frog

"Think of this as analogous to the hosting of virtual servers in a distributed data center, except in this case, the virtual servers are CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) manufacturing equipment and the distributed data centers are virtual factories, spread around the world."

Read more on Fast Co.design

 

ZDNet's tech predictions for 2013

"Should 3D printers be used with stem cells to build body parts? And should the schematics or blueprints be offered through 'pirate' sites? Where there will be 3D printing, there will likely be strict regulation."

Read more on ZDNet

 

Stories

 

The Value of a Custom Made Gift is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts

Shapeways Gift

"Oh well, right now it's being transported... so I don't know yet whether she likes it. But honestly, when I send it off... it felt like I was sending a piece of myself... the amount of work and dedication that goes into making this... really made it the most special gift I have ever given somebody."

Read more on the Shapeways blog

 

Innovation

 

Ford to put MakerBot Replicators on their engineers’ desks

"Ford intends to equip many of their engineers with new Replicator 3D printers from MakerBot, according to GigaOM. The video shows one of Ford’s engineers explaining how he uses an older MakerBot in his work, so Ford has apparently been using these printers for awhile now."

Read more on the Ponoko blog

 

See you next week!

 

In This Issue

  1. The Future
  2. Stories
  3. Innovation

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