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Brandtoys.com offers a cool way to visualize the personality and online buzz of brands. With this partnership, Sculpteo allows Brand Toys users to give life to these nice characters with the 3D Printing Technology. Brand Toys are created from the data from Millward Brown’s famous BrandZ study, and realtime, online buzz data is provided by Social Mention. These characters have different body shape depending upon their score for...

GE Global Research is developing additive manufacturing processes for ultrasound transducers. What you see here is the process that will reduce hours from the transducer manufacturing process. Scott Smith explain : “We [Scott Smith and Prabhjot Singh] realized that additive manufacturing using digital micro-printing offered a single platform to perform almost all of the manufacturing steps needed to build transducers:...

Digital Object On Demand has uploaded beautiful customizable animal themed Napkin Ring. You have a lot of choices : Bull, monkey, rhino, pig, big cat, etc Choose your favorite Napkin Ring animal Click on the customization icon (orange paint pallet) Enter your name You can now see your name on the side Click on “Add to Cart” You’ll be ask to choose the printing material. We recommand you to choose between White and...

Ok, that’s not really gold but that’s still nice. With these simple tips for painting printed parts and give them a metallic look, you can make a beautiful 3D Printed Gold bullion – Lightly sand your part using 220 grit sandpaper – Use nylon brush for hard to reach areas – Air-clean your part – Shake primer can – Apply one or more thin coats as needed – Lightly sand primed part using 220...

In this Kinect Experiment, people are posing like Han Solo in front of the Kinect. As a result they don’t get trapped in carbonite like Han Solo but get a beautiful 3D model that can be exported for 3D Printing. “This is an experiment with Kinect and Processing. People in front of it are posing like Han Solo and get frozen in 3D. We are already exporting the 3D models for 3D printing. So stay tuned. The software will be...

In the “Officer Blue” episode aired on 12 November 2005, you can see how a 3D printer is used to solve a crime. “A police officer is shot in the middle of Central Park from a building way outside the park. He dies right away. Sadly, the bullet, an important piece of evidence, is buried into the officer’s horse, Blue. Removing might end Blue’s life” The solution ? Make a CT scan and use it to create...

Sculpteo allow you to embed 3D models. It’s a great way for designers to showcase their work and for users to share 3D models they love. It’s easy to do : Select a model on our gallery, click on “embed”, and Copy and paste the code on your Blog/Website. You can select the size of the embedded viewer and choose between three 3D technologies : Java or WebGL (depends on your browser), Flash and JavaScript Only...

Christophe Michot and Bertrand Lévy are the founders of Potati.com. Potati is a secured environment for children : it’s a browser, a Web portal and a parental control software. “Potanimals”, as we can call them I suppose, are Potati’s mascots. Christophe Michot used Sculpteo online 3D printing service to give them life. I’m pleased to introduce you Potadog, Potacat, Potachon, Potadrago, Potanours,...

3DTubeMe is an interesting service using your photos to create a 3D model. Add a whole different dimension to your photographs. Just take several pictures of your favorite objects, people or places from different points of view from your digital camera and upload them to 3dtubeme.com. We will turn them into amazing digital 3D models that you can share with your family and friends. Use Google Chrome for a faster result (seriously)...

In this video of DARPA DMACE Challenge Sphere crushing event (December 8, 2010) you can see an animation of the machine used to digitally manufacture the titanium spheres. The Arcam A2 use an electron beam melting process and Ti6Al4V titanium alloy powder. “The Arcam A2 is designed for production of any functional part within Aerospace and General Industry. The parts are built up layer-by-layer of metal powder melted by a...