Florida-based medical seating company Kalogon has launched Verro, a Medicare-coded custom wheelchair cushion line for people with significant postural support needs, including windswept posture, pelvic obliquity, or asymmetry. The line addresses a gap seating specialists have identified: while multi-density and contoured cushions exist, they lack the precise, body-conforming fit needed by wheelchair users with the…
If you’ve ever tried to produce a full-color figurine or a one-off branded product on a desktop 3D printer, you already know the routine. You print in a single color, then spend hours hand-painting, curing, sealing, and hoping the finish doesn’t look like a craft project. Most desktop 3D printers produce stunning geometry, but color…
Sinterit, a Polish manufacturer of selective laser sintering systems, has partnered with polymer post-processing specialist DyeMansion to offer an integrated printing, vapor smoothing and coloring workflow for compact industrial SLS users. Under the agreement, Sinterit will sell DyeMansion’s VX1 vapor smoothing system directly to its customers. It can also supply the DM60 coloring system and…
Lithoz, an Austrian ceramic 3D printing company, has reported a 40% year-over-year increase in ceramic material revenue at the end of the second quarter of 2026. The company attributed the growth to rising production volumes among Lithography-based Ceramic Manufacturing (LCM) contract manufacturers and increased adoption in medical technology applications. Consequently, Lithoz has revised its revenue…
A few degrees at the nozzle can decide whether a 3D printed aluminum part comes out sound or riddled with pores. That is the central finding of a new study from The University of Manchester, published in Materials & Design, which pins down how the thermal conditions of molten metal deposition (MMD) govern defects and…
Researchers from four Italian universities have developed a digital workflow for producing patient-specific upper-limb prosthetic sockets with spatially graded lattice structures. Combining 3D scanning, finite element analysis, elastic-plastic homogenization and Field-Driven Design, the method adjusts lattice strut diameter according to local mechanical loads. The resulting design had a reported weight of 373 g, 25.4% below…
A Weibo post from tipster Fixed Focus Digital claims Apple has not finalized the hinge manufacturing technology for its first foldable iPhone, widely expected to be called the iPhone Ultra. The company is reportedly weighing liquid metal against 3D printing, with a decision expected by the end of July. But the claim sits uncomfortably against…
Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are developing a reference material, a carefully engineered zirconia slurry, to help ceramic 3D printing produce consistent, reliable parts. The problem it targets is deceptively basic: the wet ceramic feedstocks used to print are notoriously hard to measure accurately, and without a trustworthy way…
An EU-funded research team has developed a 3D bioprinting technique that grows living bone, fat and muscle tissue in the lab, with uses stretching from leukaemia research to cultivated meat. The work comes out of PRISM-LT, a five-year project running until 2027 and coordinated scientifically by Massimo Vassalli, professor of bioengineering at the University of…
ugee, the Shenzhen-based digital creativity brand, has globally launched Funbox, its first desktop 3D printer aimed at children and beginners, priced at $269 and positioned as a home-grade, out-of-the-box machine for families. The printer targets the 4-to-12 age group and is built around three claims: enclosed safety, one-tap operation, and AI-assisted design that turns a…
Purdue University researchers have built a 3D printed, open-source alternative to the specialized groundwater-flow sensors that the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) owns in only small numbers, and they can assemble each unit for a few hundred dollars, a fraction of the cost of the commercial hardware it replaces. The patent-pending device is designed to drop…
Market intelligence firm CONTEXT has published its Q1 2026 analysis of global 3D printer shipments, and the numbers point to an industry growing fast but unevenly. Total hardware system revenues rose 32% Y/Y, industrial shipments climbed 18% across all major regions, and the sub-$2,500 desktop category now generates more revenue than every other price class…
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin‘s School of Engineering have 3D printed what they say is Ireland’s first cement-free geopolymer, a red-brown construction material made largely from industrial waste that contains no Portland cement and, by their preliminary estimate, carries around 70% less embodied carbon than conventional concrete. The material was put through a full industrial-scale…
Istanbul-based startup Kare 3D has opened a Kickstarter campaign for the Kare S1, a desktop 3D printer the company says can process both metal and plastic filaments. The campaign is seeking £52,275 and has raised £16,082 from six backers so far, with the funding deadline set for August 27, 2026. The project is structured as…
Additive manufacturing (AM) software provider Gravity Pull Systems has released an updated version of its Personal AM Assistant (PAAM) software, built to automate toolpath optimization for metal laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) systems. According to the company, the tool is intended to help AM users detect, measure, and reduce risks tied to toolpath behavior before…
A team at the University of Brighton is building a new class of inexpensive, environmentally conscious medical sensors that aim to make testing cheaper and more widely available. Over the past three years, researchers under Professor Bhavik Patel have reconsidered the fundamentals of how diagnostic sensors are designed and built. Rather than depending on intricate…
A graduate student at Yale’s School of Engineering & Applied Science has 3D printed a set of six custom hand prosthetics for a woman born with only one hand, at a cost of a few hundred dollars, a fraction of the $70,000 price of the last device she was fitted with. The prosthetics were designed…
The BMW Group is turning additive manufacturing from a prototyping tool into a standing pillar of its industrial production, with the first vehicle components made by Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) scheduled to enter series production in 2027. The push is being run out of the company’s Additive Manufacturing Campus (AMC) in Oberschleissheim, north of…
Precision machining additive manufacturing (AM) Mears Machine Corporation has ordered a fifth Sapphire XC metal 3D printer from metal AM company Velo3D, along with options to purchase two additional units. The Indianapolis-based company said the expanded fleet will support production programs across aviation, defense, energy, and space sectors where it has built a customer base…
A team at the University of Waterloo has built a digital manufacturing system that prints custom contact lenses in roughly 20 minutes, raising the prospect that a patient could be measured, have a lens designed, and walk out wearing it after one clinic visit. The approach pairs a purpose-built silicone material with additive manufacturing, and…
