Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, by WIRED magazine editor Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers […]
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VentrureBeat reports that Shapeways allows users to design and print objects using a 3D printer. The company just added silver to its range of materials. Objects could previously be printed in glass, steel, plastic and a high-performance composite that hardens like a cement to produce full-color objects. To print an object, users either use 3D
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The Spokesman-Review: Small businesses that make machines and components for other manufacturers are experiencing an upswing that could be a sign of things to come for the broader economy. The industries fueling the demand vary. In some cases, business is coming from medical device makers, which are expected to see increasing growth as baby boomers
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Forbes: Now the economics of large-scale production runs carried out overseas are being disrupted by the possibility of making, selling and delivering millions of manufactured items one unit at a time, right next to the customer. The question most people ask when thinking about the possibilities of 3D printing is: which of our existing products
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Marketplace Shanghai Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz is only the second reporter ever to gain access to visit the factory floor at Apple’s Chinese producer Foxconn. See highlights from his tour of the assembly line and the Foxconn facilities.
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Whether you’re looking for a place to build your invention or have it manufactured, it is a long process that can intimidate the toughest inventor. However, one company is helping local inventors find the manufactures they need, but they’re also renting out space for inventions that just need a little more refining and bigger tools,
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According to the the father and son team behind Sleek Audio, it’s all because of the quality. CNN: When Mark Krywko and his son, Jason, launched Sleek Audio, a small business making in-ear headphones for iPods and other audio devices from a Florida town near St. Petersburg, they asked several U.S. manufacturers for quotes on
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RedFerret has a story about Maker Factory, a new free online service which connects factories with people who need stuff made. The seekers post their needs (e.g. a waterproof pedometer) and the quantities wanted, and companies can respond to the request. The whole service is very sparsely populated at the moment, but this could be
In the early 20th century, people across the world cut their own bread, one slice at a time. But in 1902, a Missouri inventor named Otto Frederick Rohwedder couldn’t get his bread slices to fit inside the slots of his toaster. Thus began his 26-year quest to invent a bread-slicing machine. Although Rohwedder had a
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According to Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine’s editor-in-chief, atoms are the new bits – and because of this we are on the brink of the next industrial revolution. It’s happening in hackerspaces across the country where inventors aren’t just building prototypes, but taking their inventions directly to market, foregoing the traditional factory. The open-source movement is
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