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At New York’s Toy Fair trade show over the weekend, Mattel unveiled its new, $300 3D Printer, the “ThingMaker,” which will allow children to print their own toys at home. The device works in conjunction with a 3D printing app developed in collaboration with Autodesk that offers a simple interface for designing items that can then come to life via Mattel’s ThingMaker as well as with other standard 3D printers already on the market.

The accompanying app is actually key to making Mattel’s 3D printing experience more accessible to a wider audience.

While there are affordably priced 3D printers available today, the software that works with them can sometimes have a learning curve that can hinder adoption. With the new application, live now on iOS and Android, the goal was to make it easy enough for anyone to design their own toys – even younger children.

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A 3D-printed model of the blood vessels inside a woman's brain has helped surgeons practise life-saving surgery.

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Cette semaine, Poppy l’humanoïde français fabriqué à partir d’éléments imprimés en 3D, a été présenté au Président de la République François Hollande à L’Elysée, dans le cadre d’un évènement FrenchTech pour soutenir le développement de l’économie du numérique. Poppy (présenté ici) est le premier robot humanoïde complet au monde à être la fois open-source et imprimé en 3D. Il est destiné principalement au monde de l’éducation, des FabLabs (associatifs ou dans les entreprises), des geeks et des artistes.

Orange County Choppers (OCC), a company located in Orange County, New York, has built two custom motorcycles (or "choppers" in the motorcycle world) for a Chinese client, using a Stratasys Fortus 400mc large commercial 3D printer. On March 27, these two dragon-themed choppers were on display at a shopping mall in Nanjing, China.

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Computer-generated models are starting to let researchers and students peer into the body without needing a real human stretched out before them. Virtual dissection tables have been built at places like Stanford and the University of Calgary. Now, University of Michigan computer scientists and biologists have taken the technology another step forward, using projectors, joysticks and 3-D equipment to build a floating holographic human that users can dissect, manipulate, and put back together as they wish.

Medical breakthrough at University Medical Center Utrecht as surgeons replace woman's skull with 3D implant

The robotic suit, created by 3D Systems and EksoBionics, allows Amanda Boxtel, who was paralyzed in a skiing accident, to walk for the first time since 1992. Read this article by Daniel Terdiman on CNET News.

A new 3D printing material could be used in bendable electronics.

Those in need of bone grafts must occasionally dream of a magical machine that could make exactly what their bodies needed with the push of a button. That magical machine may soon be in hospitals everywhere.

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3D printing has been providing various forms of prosthetic devices such as fingers, hands, arms and legs  for a short time now, mostly due to the fact that it is affordable, easy to use, faster than traditional manufacturing, and provides for total customization. Companies are also really beginning to see the potential of 3D printing in the rapid prototyping of medical products.

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3D printing has changed the way engineers test products, allowing them to cut down on time and costs. But what about 3D printing the components that go into.

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Last year, Victoria University of Wellington graduate Jake Evill created the Cortex cast, a concept that sought to potentially replace traditional plaster casts while also offering the added benefit of being lightweight and odor-free. Now, the Osteoid cast, a new concept designed by Deniz Karasahin, takes things a step further by adding an ultrasound device meant to speed up the healing process.

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Stanford cardiologist Paul Wang, MD, and colleagues are using a new technique that could soon make those surgeries even more precise, by starting with an 3D printed exact replica of the patient's heart.

Scientists at the University of Lincoln are testing a humanoid robot which has been created using 3D printing technology, hoping the project leads to a new generation of androids that humans feel more comfortable interacting with.

The assembly line isn't going away, but 3-D printing is going to reshape how we make cars. The EDAG Genesis points the way, with an beautifully crafted frame made from a range of materials and inspired by a turtle's skeleton.

Freileitungen auf Fehler zu untersuchen, ist mühsam, langwierig und teuer. Ein US-Wissenschaftler hat Abhilfe geschaffen: Er hat einen einfachen und günstigen Roboter gebaut, der diese Aufgaben