Since the very beginning, the prevailing wisdom regarding consumer desktop 3D printers was that they were excellent tools for producing prototypes or one-off creations, but anything more than that was ...

The bulbs inside scanners (before transitioning to LED, anyway) were cold cathode fluorescent tubes that emit a fairly wide bandwidth of light. They were purpose-built to produce a very specific type ...

Milan-based start-up Krill Design has 3D printed Sicilian orange peels into a tactile lamp that can be composted along with organic household waste. The designers at Krill Design turned to orange peel ...

You can't rhyme anything with orange. And they make terrible baseballs. So the purpose of oranges has always seemed pretty straightforward: You either eat them or squeeze them for juice. Or so we've ...

Wooden lights and guitars have been 3D printed by HagenHinderdael, a London-based company that works at the interface of sustainable design, architecture, and cutting-edge technology. However, it is ...

I really like that you can print anything you can dream up with a 3D printer. If you give a design geek access to a 3D printer, you never know what they will dream up. Designers at the Veneridesign ...

Last year, designer Muhammad Khalid of Khawarizm Studio unveiled ‘The Future Catcher,’ a sculptural, 3D-printed smart lamp that placed third in the 2020 3D Printed Luminaire Design Competition, an ...

For penny pinchers like myself, the best part about tech isn’t quite the tech itself (though that’s important too). It’s that sweet moment when the starting prices for new products drop over time as ...

Orange peels certainly are compostable, but Milan-based startup Krill Design has come up with an interesting alternative use for them. The company is incorporating orange waste into its 3D-printed ...

A plethora of substances can be used for 3D printing these days. Most people go for conventional plastics like ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) or polycarbonate. Krill Design, however, has opted ...