With 125 years of innovation, Philips is now marking another exciting journey with personalized 3D printed shaver. They are piloting a limited-edition personalized 3D printed shaver which enables you to design your own shaver – its shape, dimensions, accessories and colors. You can even have a personal message printed on it.

This exclusive pilot is limited to only 125 units – all of which will be individually personalized by people like you, using the latest 3D printing technology.

Skin tones change with the seasons, with ladies going from deep sun kissed summer glows to lightly tanned beige in a matter of months. This means that finding the right foundation shade is a dynamic and frustrating task. Adorn is putting an end to foundation frustrations, with its next generation 3D printing technology that pinpoints the perfect shade, guaranteed.

Achieve a flawless face in few simple steps: scan, print and apply.

Using advanced scanning, blending and printing technology, Adorn creates bespoke foundation shades at the touch of a button. In just seconds, an intelligent in-built skin tone sensor scans complexion characteristics with incredible accuracy. Using this data, the internal mixing mechanism blends a unique shade. The blend is then printed straight onto the fingertips for easy application. With millions of color combinations, finding a superlative shade has never been easier.

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We’ve heard a lot about the ISS’s new 3D printer, which was built and delivered by a California company called Made In Space. Though the printer spit out the first of many test objects back in November, those files were delivered to the ISS on board a cargo supply—not through wireless communication with Earth, as it eventually the goal with the printer.

But that changed this week, when the founder of Made In Space, Mike Chen, was listening to ISS radio communication and heard ISS Commander Barry Wilmore talking about how he needed a wrench. As Chen explains on Backchannel:

We had overheard ISS Commander Barry Wilmore (who goes by "Butch") mention over the radio that he needed one, so we designed one in CAD and sent it up to him faster than a rocket ever could have. This is the first time we’ve ever "emailed" hardware to space.

Because it’s a lot faster to send digital data (which can travel at the speed of light) to space than it is to send physical objects (which involves waiting months to years for a rocket), it makes more sense to 3D-print things in space, when we can, instead of launching them.

So the Made In Space team jumped into Autodesk Inventor, mocked up the wrench, and sent it along to NASA—which transmitted it to the ISS, where Wilmore was able to print the tool out on the 3D printer. It’s pretty incredible to see a technology like this actually making good on some of the most well-worn claims of rapid prototyping—but also pretty cool that an astronaut got a Christmas present. Aww. [Backchannel]

Source: Gizmodo.com

It’s a backup faceplate for the 3D printer’s print head — in other words, it attaches to the box that shoots the plastic filament out onto the print surface, keeping all of the various wires and sensitive bits in place.

So, no, it’s perhaps not the most exciting thing they could have printed — but holy crap, guys, we’re making things in space now.

Alas, this particular print probably won’t be sticking around the ISS for very long. It’s being sent back down to Earth in a few weeks, where it’ll be compared to an identical component printed down here so differences between the two can be gauged.

For the curious: the 3D printer being used for this isn’t your run-of-the-mill piece of kit — they didn’t just stick a Makerbot on a rocket and send it on up. The printer in use here is called the Zero-G, and was built specifically for zero gravity operation by NASA and a company that (aptly) calls themselves MadeInSpace. The printer hitched a ride up to the International Space Station on a SpaceX resupply mission back at the end of September.

Here’s what the printer itself looks like:

Source: Techcrunch.com

This is Jay Rogers’ vision. Rogers is the CEO of Local Motors, the company that just built the world’s first 3D printed car known as the Strati. The electric, pint-sized two-seater was officially unveiled last week at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) in Chicago, Illinois.

“Telsa made the electric drive train famous, we’re changing the whole car,” Rogers toldMashable, clearly still relishing his community-based design and his company’s moment in the 3D manufacturing sun.

According to Ford Motors, most cars have somewhere between 5,000 and 6,000 parts. The Strati has just 49, including its 3D printed body (the largest part), plus more traditional components like the motor, wheels, seats and windshield. While many 3D printed car models exist, there haven’t been any other drivable ones that we could find.

The original design for Strati, which means “layers” in Italian, did not bubble up directly from Local Motors. Rather, the company — similar to the inventions company Quirky — encourages members to share vehicle design ideas, which the community then works to perfect and productize. The finished products are then sold online and in retail stores by Local Motors.

Local Motors launched a project 18 months ago that sought to simplify the car design and manufacturing process through Direct Digital Manufacturing. When it put out the call for workable 3D printed car designs, it received more than 200 submissions, ultimately choosing a design by Michele Anoe, who is based in Italy.

Rogers said Anoe’s design stood out because it fit perfectly with Local Motors’ desired production technique, combining 3D printing and a subtractive machining.

Yet even with the design in hand, Local Motors spent the better part of a year finding a company that could print the first car. The eventual production partner, Oak Ridge Labs, found a company with the base of a large laser printer, which they retrofitted with a 3D extruder. The second half of the 3D production process took place in a separate Thermwood Corp. manufacturing routing machine, which refined the overall look of the car.

Printing the car took roughly 44 hours, and milling it to perfection took another full day. Local Motors then built the Strati over the course of four days at the IMTS.

“We probably could have done it in two days or less,” Rogers said — but they stretched it out for the show.

Printed in carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic or ABS, the finished Strati can drive at speeds up to 40 mph and can travel 120 miles on a single charge. It’s fine for a neighborhood jaunt, but is not yet allowed on highways. Rogers said there are plans to test the car extensively before selling it to customers or putting it on the freeway.

Auto manufacturers like Ford have been using 3D printing techniques for decades, but according to a company spokesperson, currently only uses the process for prototyping. (So far, there haven’t been any 3D printed parts in Ford vehicles.) Thus, the concept of building a vehicle almost entirely through the 3D printing process is likely intriguing to traditional car makers like Ford.

Although the Strati is just as expensive as a full-sized sedan, Rogers does not envision it as a luxury item. Instead, he believes it will be an affordable and highly customizable option that could be widely available by 2016 for between $18,000 and $34,000.

"It will be positioned like a car for the masses, or many different cars for the masses,” Rogers said.

Source: Mashable.com

Enter 3D printers.

There are several 3D files available for free download from Makerbot’s Thingiverse that should help alleviate the anxiety of the larger iPhones. Simply print the files and then live with the scale models over the coming days. You might find that the larger iPhone 6 isn’t the burden it appears. Remember, select Staples stores and local print shops have been slowly adding 3D printing to their available services.

There are also non-working, scale dummy phones available for purchase from Amazon and elsewhere. For around $10, buyers can acquire fake iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus models that look and feel nearly like the real thing.

Or, of course, you could ask any buyer of a late-model Android phone if their phone feels large, and they’ll likely smirk, quipping back that they like their super-size phone just fine.

Source: Techcrunch.com