The latest runway fashions aren't made with a sewing machine, but with a printer. 3D printing has been around for decades, but it has just started to weave its way into the world of fashion. A ...

A University of Rhode Island textiles professor is working with 3D printing technology to create symbols on clothing to help visually impaired and neurodivergent shoppers When University of Rhode ...

Forget costly prototypes, traditional textile manufacturing, product recalls, and the like. 3D printing is about to turn the entire retail industry on its head. A precise form of additive ...

Some projects to get inspired by from the fair at the New York Hall of Science. First off the supposed Osborne effect was that soon after the Osborne 1 was unveiled, the CEO started talking about a ...

Though additive manufacturing wouldn’t exist for another 40 years, the prolific American sci-fi author Murray Leinster penned a 1945 short story featuring a spookily prescient description of what we ...

Conventional textiles made of woven threads are highly useful materials. [Sara Alvarez] has had some success creating fabric-like materials through 3D printing, and though they’re not identical, they ...

Though 3D printers are still too expensive to make their way across the globe into our homes next to our tablets and flat-screen TVs, the few lucky early adopters who got their hands on them have ...