The first Urbee rolled off the printing press a few days ago. Fast Company has an exclusive look at the sexy 200 mpg super-light hybrid. The prototype, unveiled a few days ago at the TEDx Winnipeg ...

Collin Kobayashi plans to make a paddleboard with his 3D printer. Some people, including his wife, may chuckle at the idea, but the president and chief 3D officer of 3D Innovations LLC has the ...

Absolute Design and Print of Fletcher is now offering 3D prototype printing for designers. This “additive manufacturing” thermoplastic printing process can produce products up to eight inches by eight ...

High-end Italian eMTB maker Thok is currently working on a new carbon-framed model, and has tapped the additive-manufacturing expertise of Belgian industry veteran Materialise to prototype the frame ...

There’s a common phrase, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” But when it comes to understanding a medical device concept, a prototype is worth a million—at least according to customers and end ...

While it’s the ideal choice for mass production, injection molding is simply no good for prototyping. The molds are expensive and time-consuming make, so unless you’ve got the funding to burn tens of ...

It was assumed that 3D printing would forever be pinned to pumping out product prototypes. But that limiting idea is getting squashed by real world examples of the technology being used to produce ...

3D printing can be an effective, low-cost way to build prototypes, especially when you consider all the competitive advantages companies can get from it—assuming they know what they’re doing. Here are ...

The day is coming when we can dream something up and have a machine carve an image of it. In fact, that’s possible for industrial designers now, but at a fairly high cost. Producing prototypes was ...