NEXTENGINE, the leading manufacturer of 3D Scan instruments, announced today that its Desktop 3D Scanner won a coveted NASA Tech Briefs “Product of the Year” award at a special industry dinner ...

This is awesome. A Lego and 3D fanatic took a small Mario figurine, scanned it into a computer using the NextEngine 3D Scanner and used the data to create a near-perfect replica in Lego bricks, just ...

With the highly anticipated release of the 3-D motion picture “Avatar” now almost a year behind us, it’s clear from the film’s phenomenal success (over $2.7 billion in gross receipts) that the demand ...

Imagine the power to clone your favorite LEGO piece—not just any piece, but let’s say, one that costs €50 second-hand. [Balazs] from RacingBrick posed this exact question: can a 3D scanner recreate ...

3D scanners are non-contact devices that digitally capture the shapes of objects and use that data to render a 3D model, which can then be used for any number of applications: construction, reverse ...