Great dreams aren’t just visions, they are visions coupled to strategies for making them real. We will take you though the dynamic wonders of 3D printers as you enjoy reading this copy of our edited report: The “moonshot factory,” as it’s called, where some weird team seeks to solve the world’s biggest problems through experimental projects like balloon-powered Internet and wind turbines that sail through the air. Find out the secret to creating an organization where people feel comfortable working on big, risky projects and exploring audacious ideas.
PRINTING A HUMAN KIDNEY
Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala’s young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago.
Anthony Atala asks, “Can we grow organs instead of transplanting them?” His lab at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is doing just that, engineering over 30 tissues and whole organs.
Anthony Atala is the director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, where his work focuses on growing and regenerating tissues and organs. His team engineered the first lab-grown organ to be implanted into a human — a bladder — and is developing experimental fabrication technology that can “print” human tissue on demand.
In 2007, Atala and a team of Harvard University researchers showed that stem cells can be harvested from the amniotic fluid of pregnant women. This and other breakthroughs in the development of smart bio-materials and tissue fabrication technology promises to revolutionize the practice of medicine.
What others say: “Anthony Atala bakes things that will make you feel good inside, but we’re not talking cakes and muffins.”
THE SMALLEST 3D PRINTER IN THE WORLD
What could you do with the world’s smallest 3D printer? Klaus Stadlmann demos his tiny, affordable printer that could someday make customized hearing aids or sculptures smaller than a human hair.
Klaus Stadlmann was pursuing his PhD at Vienna’s Technical University when a broken laser system gave him some unexpected free time to think. Instead of working on his thesis, he decided to build the world’s smallest 3D printer.
Klaus demonstration is quite interesting. I am sure we all have the misconception that 3D printers ought to be very big, big enough to fill one squared ft. room, and what a stunning size this printer is. According to Klaus stadlmann, if this device gets distributed across the globe, those in need can get their necessary items without having to wait for a long time.
Klaus Stadlmann graduated from the Technical University of Vienna with a degree in Industrial Engineering. While pursuing his PhD at the Institute of Material Sciences and Technologies at Vienna’s Technical University, Klaus led the project to develop the world’s smallest 3D printer.
A PRIMER ON 3D PRINTING
We are in the years of 3D/DI printing, when this three-decade-old technology finally becomes accessible and even commonplace. Lisa Harouni gives a useful introduction to the fascinating way of making things, including intricate objects once impossible to create.
Lisa Harouni is the co-founder and CEO of Digital Forming, working in “additive manufacturing” a company that works on the software side of 3D printing, the design tools needed to run the new generation of 3D printing processes. She has a background in economics, and worked in the G7 Economics team at Deutsche Bank AG before moving over to the consumer products business.
What others say: “Lisa Harouni is in the vanguard of a wave of entrepreneurs who want to make it easy for anyone to design and create bespoke products at the click of a button.” — Wired UK
I am really surprise about this technology, I believed that it’s only seen in movies and now I know it exist. This technology could help people in different ways, as Lisa explains; people could create their own things by this 3D printer. It’s an awesome innovation for the future of human in the next decade with this product. The Business of transport products from different and distant places will decrease and people just have to send product designs by internet and use the 3D printer. I agree that the future of this technology will change the world.
Yes i agree it is amazing, but Lisa’s comment got my concern when she mentioned something along the lines of “we can abolish the need for manual labour …”. My question is what we are going to do when everything is being done for us by machines. Do we really need all this stuff?
I find that 3D/DI printers are the future of manufacturing. This is a great product for everyone because its use is wide in range and can produce anything that it’s programed to do, like what Lisa said during Ted Talk. I agree that it will revolutionize the manufacturing industry but cause many problems during its growth. It will probably endanger many companies that produce things that the 3D printers could also produce. On the other side this could create different businesses for 3D printers. Some jobs might be for people to code things for the product, design the product, or even supply the material used to make the product. This is a great product that I one day wish to have.
The 3D printer’s untold success or failure, but it is the future trend of development, and have great potential for improvement. Making something new is far better than the traditional manufacturing process. But there are needs for further development of new features; the type that makes things more diversify with reasonable pricing.
The future of printing, unimaginable innovations…..
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