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 ...

Although the things that can be done with 3D printers are certainly amazing, many 3D-printed plastic items still have a certain "look" to them. This is largely due to the fact that each item is all ...

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 ...

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 ...

The gun control debate may soon involve discussion of plastic printers. On Sunday, a Texas company released a video of its founder firing “the Liberator,” a handgun made entirely from plastic parts ...

The world's first gun assembled completely from plastic components made with a 3-D printer was recently fired successfully at a remote firing range outside Austin, Texas. Made by a company called ...

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 ...

The adoption of direct-to-can digital printing is accelerating across Australia as beverage producers seek quicker routes to ...

A skipper will replace his nylon fishing net every 6 months, says Ian Falconer, and most of the time they're buried in a ...

The design studio Nervous System has created a novel process that allows a 3-D printed dress to move and sway like real fabric. The bespoke software behind it, called Kinematics, combines origami ...

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 ...

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 ...