A North Carolina-based plastics recycler is teaming up with a plastic film supplier and printer to make business cards from recycled plastic. Envision Plastics, headquartered in Reidsville, North ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If you want to 3D-print all of your ideas, you’ll need to start ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Alert Transportation Security Administration employees made a startling discovery at a Nevada airport early Monday morning. It looked like a real gun, but turned out to be replica that ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Firing an all-plastic gun is a dubious affair. The weapons can ...

Gun control is back in the spotlight – this time with a high-tech twist. A federal judge's temporary restraining order aims at blocking plans to upload blueprints necessary for a person to build a ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- 3-D printing is not just being used for making souvenirs, car parts and smartphones. It's being used more and more in hospitals and medical schools. "It's extraordinary. It truly ...

Perhaps one of the oldest dreams of a science-fiction future is the ability to create something where once there was nothing. If we could create solid, stable objects out of thin air, the idea of ...

3-D printing technology is being harnessed to take pesky plastic waste to make human waste disappear via composting toilets. "You can use the soil that comes out of that for gardening - not crops that ...

When you think about 3-D printing, chances are you think of little plastic doodads created by desktop devices like those made by MakerBot. Computing and printer giant HP wants you to think about metal ...

Discover the creative journey of transforming a plastic soda bottle into high-quality 3D printer filament. Watch as we prepare, cut, and feed the plastic into a homemade extruder, achieving a ...

Luke Heemsbergen is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He was a 2014 intern at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. August 11, 2014 Utopian visions of new ...