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  Tinkering Makes Comeback Amid Crisis - WSJ.com

  The American tradition of tinkering -- the spark for inventions from the telephone to the Apple computer -- is making a comeback, boosted by renewed interest in hands-on work amid the economic crisis and falling prices of high-tech tools and materials. The modern milling machine, able to ...

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  Thom Yorke 3D print on Vimeo

  Original point cloud data from Aaron Koblin's House of Cards (GeoVideo's 3D scanning system) http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/ Meshed with Point ...

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  3-D Printing on Demand

  Shapeways.com is beta testing a new service allowing people to print three dimensional models. Customers can upload designs or use a creation tool hosted at the Shapeways website then order a printed model of their designs for less than $3 per square centimeter. The printed items are shipped to ...

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  Markerbot 3D Printing

  3-D Printers Make Manufacturing Accessible Inexpensive prototyping device fro creating plastic parts

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  Glass casting meets the digital age: 3-D glass printing method developed

  Glass casting meets the digital age: 3-D glass printing method developed Vitraglyphic allows for much faster and cheaper manufacturing of high-precision glass prototypes. A team of engineers and artists at the University of Washington 's Solheim Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory has revived ...

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