James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s. While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser ...

Murray Leinster’s short story Things Pass By, published in 1945, includes what may be the first description of 3D printers: But this constructor is both efficient and flexible. I feed magnetronic ...

A few hours at a tech launch can change how you look at the future. I realized that recently, standing amid rows of humming ...

Now we know a lot more, as they are about to launch a Kickstarter campaign for their first machine, the FibreSeeker 3 on ...

It’s hard to overstate the impact desktop 3D printing has had on the making and hacking scene. It drastically lowered the barrier for many to create their own projects, and much of the prototyping and ...

Instead of starting with metal-containing resins, the EPFL team first creates a 3D scaffold using a simple water-based gel, ...

University of Queensland researchers have developed an affordable, open-source DNA measurement tool that can be built using a home 3D printer. The Do-It-Yourself Nucleic Acid Fluorometer—DIYNAFLUOR—is ...