M.C. Escher, one of the great rappers of art and mathematics, whose work has been plastered across college dorm rooms and famous galleries alike for decades. His work has been given a new twist – literally. All those impossible shapes you saw on the cover of your grade 11 algebra textbook (just to give you an indication that everything inside was seemingly impossible) have been rendered possible by Professor Gershon Elber of the Israeli Institute of Technology.
The stale air closed around. What else had they to do? Stretching out their arms, they open the door. Hundreds of blank, hungry, glazed-eyed faces staring back at them – some half-charred, others half-eaten – all, preparing to breath their last, undead breath, from the tidal blast force of these links. Simon Weaner – Oh,…
And while Australia is going big with 3D Printing, Austria is going the opposite direction. The Vienna University of Technology has developed a method for 3D Printing on a microscopic scale using lasers. If you recall they printed a tiny F1 car, complete with details right down to the steering wheels and hubs. Now they’re working with biological materials, developing scaffolding for cells or particular molecules to colonize. Next step is making a tiny little Michael Schumacher to drive his tiny little F1 yet still win World Championships on regular-sized racetracks.
You know when you show up to the coffee shop (or office) and pull a small bamboo case from the inside pocket of your tweed jacket, people are gonna drop jaws, followed by their fraps and microwaved scones. The PHX-1 from Big I Design is a creation of the big idea duo Chadwick Parker and Joe Huang. This is one of their first products to successfully cross into the land of funded projects of Kickstarter and is now available on their new website.
As the bottom end of 3D Printing is being filled with hundreds of different companies competing for market share, new machines are appearing. Only a month after Airbus announced its intentions of developing massive 3D Printers that can manufacture whole wings and fuselages, researchers at Swinburne University in Melbourne Australia managed to develop one of the biggest metal 3D Printer. Contained within a sleek room with wall to floor windows, lasers go about fusing metal powders together.