Whether you’re into sports, cars, electronics or the simple sanctuary of your own space, the 3D printed items of Cubify’s Mancave are here to provide the perfect final touches to whatever media room or garage serves as your Spot. With electric guitars, personalized NBA figurines and more, Cubify is here to take your order and deliver the goods just the way you want them.
The tools necessary to create 3D printed fashion are now accessible to the public, allowing you to become your very own fashion designer. Now you can turn your wildest designs into physical, wearable art with the click of a button. Intricate, sculptural pieces that would otherwise require months of manual labor are now possible through a streamlined and self-directed process. Forward-thinking fashion designers like NOOKA (link to NOOKA page) have already integrated 3D printed pieces into their collections, and more are lining up to do so.
Because we see the incredible possibilities 3D printing has in fashion and wearable technology, we are working with some of the most creative and talented designers (link to FreshFiber) to make 3D printed technology available to the average consumer. Ultimately, we want to empower you to put expression into your fashion infuse your fashion by giving you the tools and access you need to take advantage of the capabilities of 3D printing.
They say home is where the heart is, and for anyone that relates with the notion of nesting, it’s important for personal space to reflect personal style and tastes. Personality transforms a room into a retreat.
From the lighting that bathes your walls to the wares that adorn your table, filling your home with charming expressions of you sticks in your heart and your friends’ memories. Whether you need a serene bench for your garden or a frame to surround your life’s fondest moments and adventures, Cubify Decor is designed with you in mind.
Introducing the CubePro 3D printer from 3D Systems, the sleek and powerful new consumer system for fashionistas and engineers alike. The CubePro produces effortless, professional-quality prints every time, with simultaneous printing capabilities in up to three colors, across a full spectrum of color.
With a multitude of colors in easy feed cartridges that help you get the most out of your material, the CubePro brings new expression and exploration to the home, office, or workbench with unprecedented ease. Automated settings guarantee safe and reliable printing, with fast and accurate results. The attractive and intuitive full-color touchscreen display delivers easy operability, and WiFi capability makes setting up prints a cinch.
More info on the CubePro:
Technology: Plastic Jet Printing (PJP)
Print jets: Single, Dual or Triple Jets
Maximum creation size: 10.8” x 10.45” x 9.5” / 275mm x 265mm x 240mm
Material: PLA plastic and ABS plastic
Layer thickness: 75 microns, 200 microns, and 350 microns
Guest Post by Matthew Straub, Communications Director of City X Project.
Leaders in various fields of exponential technology and executives from over 30 countries came together recently in Budapest, Hungary for the Singularity University Summit Europe, a weekend-long conference focused on innovation and exponential technologies.
The City X Project, sponsored by 3D Systems, was proud to participate in the Summit. Not only were we active in the conference itself, we also took 3D printers, 3D modeling software, and design thinking workshops into a local school in Budapest to run two consecutive, three-day workshops with nearly 50 kids attending the conference.
Budapest became the fifth city in the world to participate in our City X Project, which is a hands-on educational initiative that empowers kids to be change makers by using the design process and exciting 3D modeling and printing technology. We use the powerful possibilities of 3D printing both today and in shaping the future of humanity as a tool to encourage kids to create. In the workshop, every student is paired with a citizen from “City X,” the first human settlement on a new planet. Each citizen has a problem related to large, real-world issue we face today; it’s up to the student to get creative and invent (and eventually prototype on a computer and a 3D printer) an invention that solves that citizen’s problem! With the creative genius of kids, we get inventions like the garbage-eating robo-cat. We put a few of our favorite inventions from Budapest up on our blog.
We also had the opportunity to exhibit 3D prints of inventions made by kids in our workshops around the world during a gallery night hosted in partnership with the Summit. This event allowed adults and kids alike to hold actual models made by our young inventors thousands of miles away, which really speaks to the power of 3D printing as an accessible tool for sharing ideas and connecting people; a point we try to drive home everywhere we travel.
If you’d like to learn more about our time in Budapest, you can read more about our experience on the City X Project blog.
When our day-to-days are spent fixating on what we need and what’s next, how cool is it to designate a day exclusively to being grateful for what we have?
Rhetorical question: It’s really cool.
Here are just a few reasons 3D printing gives us something to be grateful for:
We’re in the future.
We’ve gotten used to having the Internet in our pockets over the last few years, and now we’re at a point where we can weightlessly and instantly send coffee mugs, pairs of shoes, watches, belts, and even car parts across geographies and time zones, all with digital data. Now. Today. We have this technology because our peers and colleagues dreamed it up and made it real. With access to a 3D printer, we can push a button tonight and wake up to our imagination in 3D. Experts and novices, young and old: 3D printing is here and happening.
Unique problems get unique solutions
3D printing is powering some much-talked-about breakthroughs in engineering, as well as some incredible innovations in medicine. Personalized surgical kits and patient-specific devices are a file and a click away from reality. Thousands upon thousands of medical and dental solutions are already being printed, and this is distinct from the current explorations of bio-printing with human tissues. Prosthetics and braces can be custom fit to the patient and 3D printed to match existing or pre-existing anatomies. Not only did a man 3D print a prosthetic hand for his son, but an animal enthusiast used 3D printing to create a prosthetic for a duck with a malformed foot. The possibilities are endless, with impacts both great and small, and everything is scalable to what matters to you.
Complexity is free
Striped shirts cost more than solids. You want your latte with soy? That’s an extra 50 cents. We have options all around us that better suit our style or flavor, but even the smallest personalization tends to come at a cost. Not so with 3D printing! A 3D printer relies on your file to create your design, and it follows that design layer by layer. A 3D printer can make sugar sculptures just as easily as sugar cubes. If it’s free, why not have fun with it? It’s that kind of choice that makes this technology so sweet.
It’s nice to our planet
3D printing creates by building up one layer at a time, attaching materials only where they are needed. This means that by its very nature, 3D printing is a waste-free technology. What’s more, many of the materials used can be recycled or composted. And because 3D printing relies on weightless, shapeless, instantaneously shareable 3D printing files, tremendous amounts of inventory and cross-continental, cross-oceanic transport can be cut down, making a big dent in the carbon footprint of making and manufacturing. About time, too!
It gives us something to look forward to
Wrapping one’s head around 3D printing can be more or less difficult, depending on how new it is to you. For those dwindling beings that have yet to come around to email (if such beings still exist), 3D printing is nothing short of voodoo. For those that grow up with it, though? Designing for 3D and thinking in 3D terms is set to evolve into a new literacy the world over, and kids are the ultimate boundary pushers. As “Why not?” replaces “Why?”, we are sure to be awed and delighted with what the future holds.
Being an agent of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division (S.H.I.E.L.D.) isn’t all cutting edge science, high tech labs, solving riddles and having great hair. Come to think of it though, that’s a pretty central part of the gig, and ABC’s new Marvel series, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., has hit the ground running with an impressive arsenal of powerful gadgets to aid the agents’ investigations (and of course, that hair).
In the latest episode, “The Well”, premiering on November 19, 2013, the agents call on 3DS’ Sense 3D scanner to set them on the trail of the latest ne’er-do- wells. With access to the tree that once encased the mysterious artifact in question, the S.H.I.E.L.D. team scans and digitally transmits 3D data to their lab, which is rightfully outfitted with a Cube 3D printer. Using the 3D print as a clue, they are able to consult with an expert in the field who recognizes it as the fabled… Well, you’ll just have to watch to find out.
Nothing like a little 3D restoration project to return peace and order to the civilized world!
