World’s Longest Wind Turbine Blade by Siemens
Siemens has produced the first batch of its new 75 meter long B75 rotor blades. They will be installed on the second prototype of Siemens’ 6-MW offshore wind turbine, which will be erected in the…
Design
World’s First 3D Printed Acoustic Guitar Sounds Great!
Manufacturing a musical instrument takes time, effort and skill to get a guitar sounding good, so it seems like a done deal that a plastic guitar would barely work, let alone sound good. The first…
Stunning 3D-Printed Guitars Will Blow You Away
We’ve seen some incredible 3D-printed designs on the market, but these printed Spider and Scarab electric guitars have officially blown us away. Olaf Diegel — a professor of mechatronics at Massey University’s School of Engineering…
Look Inside a Futuristic Nanotech Lab
Physicist Richard Feynman famously said that there’s plenty of room at the bottom. Room to build complex structures, machines, and computing engines at the size of individual molecules and even atoms. Nowhere is this more evident than…
The Largest Ever 3D Printed Wrench!
It’s only natural that following the huge global interest in 3D printed wrenches, that I’d immediately print the largest wrench we’ve ever made using the new Objet1000 wide format 3D printer that we released at last week’s Euromold. As…
Electree+, The Electric Bonsai Tree Charger
Some new product ideas are cool, and some are downright crazy — but it’s the ones that are a little of both that often turn out the best. Take the Electree ($200 and up) for example. This…
R10 Quadroter Affordable Micro Air Vehicles (MAV)
R10 is a quadrotor/micro air vehicle, radically designed from the ground up to be extremely easy to build, modify, and fly. Affordable Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) will revolutionize activities and tasks ranging from sports photography…
Japan building a “mega solar” power and wind energy plant
In the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant in 2011, arguably the worst nuclear power accident in history, the Japanese government has decided to phase out nuclear power…
HotTug: Hot Tub on the Go
The HotTug is a design by Supergoed: as simple as it is ingenious. Supergoed is owned by Frank de Bruijn, who works on a barge in the port of Rotterdam. Frank has a soft spot…
3D-Printed Rockets Help Propel NASA’s Space Launch System
Parts for the rocket engines of NASA’s Space Launch System will be created using a method of 3D-printing known as selective laser melting. The space agency is taking advantage of new technology to help improve…
