You hear about 3D printing here and there, but for the most part it’s a bit irrelevant to the average person because fabrication is messy, difficult, and prohibitively expensive. Even dedicated DIYers ...

Copyright holders and 3D printer owners don’t like each other for the most part. Once a protected design makes it onto a 3D model site like Thingiverse, it just ...

Willy Wonka may have been the first inspiration for 3D printers. He invented all kinds of machines and contraptions to power his wonderful chocolate factory. If Wonka had opened up his factory to Etsy ...

Shapeways, a 3-D printing service and online marketplace, has been described as the Amazon of 3-D printing for its on-demand model, if not its outsize volume: The machines spit out about 120,000 ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shapeways, a leading global digital manufacturing platform driven by proprietary software, has entered into an agreement to become the exclusive 3D printing manufacturer for ...

As if 3D printing wasn't cool enough, you can now "print" objects in stainless steel. That's right, dust off your old Transformers designs, make room in the Monopoly box for a new piece, and get ready ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shapeways Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SHPW), a global leader in digital manufacturing, is adopting generative artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to enhance ...

Peter Weijmarshausen runs Shapeways, an innovative manufacturing company that has been around since 2007. Shapeways is unique because it uses 3D printing to allow anyone to create a custom-designed ...

2013 is the year that digital technology got physical. Part of this is the explosion of the application of physics to the internet and part of it is the the application of bits to atoms to make them ...