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	3D Painting Repairs Metal Components [VIDEO]
	3D printing is making headlines again, but not for making things. This time it is for repairing stuff instead. 3D painting. GE's new machine could be used to fix up anything that's made of metal. The technique is formally known as 'cold spray', and...
	This Company is The First To Produce a 3D-Printed Steel 1911 .45 Caliber Handgun [VIDEO]
	The folks at Solid Concepts have successfully produced a 1911 .45 caliber handgun in all steel and all 3D printed. It was only a year ago that Texas based company Defense Distributed made headlines about 3D printed weapons parts. They encountered a...
	3-D Printed Liver Slices Can Function for 40 Days
	By now we're all aware of 3D printing's prowess. It can create almost anything, and its potential is tremendous. One San Diego based startup recently discovered it can even generate a slice of a functioning, long lasting liver by printing layers of ...
	Awesome Father 3D Prints a Prosthetic Hand for His Son [VIDEO]
	Leon was borin without fingers on one of his hands. Awesome father Paul McCarthy didn't want him to feel different, so he made a prosthetic hand with a 3D printer so his son could be excited about becoming a cyborg. The segment below is from CBS Ev...
	You'll Be Able to 3D Print Your Own Humanoid Robot Pal [VIDEO]
	Project Poppy's goal is to allow you to 3D print and assemble your own humanoid robot to play around with. The design team behind the project imagines a world where bipedal robots can be printed and assembled and programmed by their owners. Every p...
	Seene Lets You Take and Share 3D Pictures Just Like That [VIDEO]
	A lot of developers have been trying to make 3D photography easy. But Seene for iOS seems like they've nailed it. The app works by breaking the object you're shooting into points and then calculating depth based on how those points move and distort...
	New Type of 3D Printer Can Produce Hard and Soft Parts Simultaneously
	This industrial printer is made by Arburg, and it can create products containing both hard and soft parts at the same time. Dubbed Freeformer, it uses a technique called Plastic Freeforming to take 3D CAD data and make parts out of liquid plastic. I...
	A New Kind of 3D Printer Will Work on Curved Surfaces [VIDEO]
	A 3D printer can now make the process of printing out curved surfaces. The researchers at the University of Southern California developed one with six axes of movement. Common and typical 3D printers have just three axes of movement. With six axes,...
	These 3D Chimpanzee Skulls Are Actually Microscopic Bacteria Traps
	That's one spooky looking skull. Created by a research team at the University of Texas, these "microscopic houses" are designed for trapping nasty bacteria that makes you sick. The researchers describe them as more like "tiny zoos for the study of i...
	Amazon's 3D Phone Might Use Four Cameras To Track Your Face
	Is Amazon working on a 3D phone or not? Earlier, the WSJ reported that they were. TechCrunch now reveals what's behind the 3D tech. In fact, it's not actual 3D but four front-facing cameras at each corner of the device. It will be able to track eye ...