Interesting Engineering

New knitting machine weaves solid 3D forms, adding stitches in any direction

A team from Cornell and Carnegie Mellon has created a knitting machine that constructs solid 3D shapes by adding stitches in ...

A new kid-friendly 3D printer is making play educational

TL;DR: The Toybox Alpha Three 3D Printer Bundle is a kid-friendly 3D printer plus filament and more, and it's only $359 right ...

This founder went from designing Happy Meal toys to making prosthetic skulls for a living—and her company now rakes in $20 million a year

Entrepreneur Nancy Hairston founded 3D medical-design company MedCAD after designing McDonald’s Happy Meal toys and Bratz ...
Interesting Engineering

World’s smallest 3D bioprinting robot delivers healing gels to damaged vocal cords

Scientists unveil a flexible 2.7 mm bioprinter that lets surgeons reconstruct vocal folds and prevent scarring after throat ...