The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Tech Focus

By AV Tech Staff On November 05, 2014 The LA Metro is embracing next-gen digital signage.                     The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is the transportation planner, coordinator, designer, builder, and operator for Los Angeles County. More than 9.6 million people—nearly one-third of California’s residents—live, work, and play within...

New 3D Scanner for the iPad

3D Systems Announces New iSense 3D Scanner Transforms your iPad into a mobile physical photography camera Easy and intuitive to use and affordable to own at $499 Captures items as small as a shoe and as large as an SUV to deliver instant 3D printables Powered by popular Sense software with full Cubify platform interoperability Compatible with iPad Air, iPad...

3D Systems and SME Help High Schools Compete in 21st Century

3D Systems and SME Announce M.Lab21 to Transform Career and Technical Education M.Lab21 Initiative seeks to bring shop class into the 21st century with new technologies including 3D equipment and curriculum Pilot intends to reach 200 schools in the SME network Release Date:  Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - 09:05 ROCK HILL, South Carolina – June 11, 2014 –3D Systems  (NYSE:DDD)...

Makerbot Announces Release of MakerBot Mobile

Prepared by: MakerBot Contact: Jenifer Howard  Jenifer.howard@makerbot.com +1-­‐347-­‐676-­‐3932 (o) +1-­‐203-­‐273-­‐4246 (m) MakerBot Launches MakerBot Mobile The First Cloud Computing App for MakerBot Replicator 3D Printers Puts the Power to Monitor and Control 3D Printing in the Palm of Your Hand Brooklyn, N.Y., June 9, 2014 – First came Thingiverse and MakerBot®’s Desktop 3D Printers, then the MakerBot Digitizer™ Desktop 3D Scanner, then...

ViewSonic Shipping New 70-inch Interactive Display

Walnut, CA, April 21, 2014 – ViewSonic.com Corp., a leading global provider of visual solution products, announces the immediate availability of the CDE7051-TL 70-inch, six-point simultaneous touch, interactive smart display. The CDE7051-TL provides a fully integrated, large screen touch solution for use in the smart educational classroom, corporate boardrooms and hospitality way-finding applications.       The CDE7051-TL features full...

  • April 21, 2014
  • Ryan Sharrer

The printed world

Three-dimensional printing from digital designs will transform manufacturing and allow more people to start making things   Article Credit: economist.com FILTON, just outside Bristol, is where Britain's fleet of Concorde supersonic airliners was built. In a building near a wind tunnel on the same sprawling site, something even more remarkable is being created. Little by little a machine is “printing” a...

  • April 21, 2014
  • Ryan Sharrer

Seattle entrepreneur is turning old soda bottles into 3D printer ‘ink’

Above: Multicolored ABS filament rolls are the plastic "ink" used by most consumer 3D printers. Article Credit: VentureBeat Image Credit: Rick Pollack/Flickr April 20, 2014 1:51 PM  Most consumer 3D printers use “ink” made of colored plastic line. But despite the self-reliant and Earth-friendly bent of many 3D printing hobbyists, it’s surprisingly difficult to find 3D printing line, or filament, that’s made of recycled...