Get practical ideas for printing everyday tools and home upgrades that'll actually make your 3D printer worth the space it ...

Origami has become known as a miracle technique for designers. Elegant compliant mechanisms can leverage the material properties of a single geometry in ways that are sometimes stronger than those ...

The consumer printer industry isn’t in great shape, and paper seems to be getting eliminated every which way you look. Yet, BERG design consultancy principal Matt Webb spent the last year building ...

3D printer company MakerBot has revealed a tie-up with crowdsourced printing network 3D Hubs that aims to bring 3D printing to designers without their own dedicated machine — which basically means ...

No one wants to design consumer electronics that last longer than a few years. This trend is an ecological disaster, with millions of tons of computers, printers, fax machines and cell phones ending ...

Solid-ink technology may make color output as common as laser prints. Highly magnified views of color laser (top) and solid ink (bottom). Note the greater consistency and the dense, crisp appearance ...

Joe Hebenstreit is Frog Design's principal engineer and an amateur wedding ring designer. When it came time for Joe Hebenstreit to buy a wedding ring for his wife-to-be, he stuck with what he knew.

Printers are one of those “classic” technologies that have had minimal innovation – just more touchscreen interfaces, slots for various memory cards, and better Wi-Fi connection. The only things that ...

A look back at the most impressive 3D printing videos of 2025, showcasing innovation across medicine, construction, mobility, ...