A 3-D printer in a UC Irvine research lab creates an object shaped like a key. With the machine’s every precise movement, a sound is made. UCI researchers decided to record those sounds and found that ...

You may not realize it until you've listened to one for 19 hours straight, but a 3D printer can be noisy. Much like the dot matrix printers of old, 3D printers have mechanisms that move, squeak, ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. To the average visitor to the RapidTech prototyping center at University of California, Irvine, the methodical buzz of ...

Kodak announced its new product at this years CES conference, a new printer in the Spring that will allow people to print their own 3D images and photos, bringing your otherwise boring family snaps to ...

3D-printing useful widgets and dohickeys is great and all, but sometimes you just want to mess around. And what could be better for that than good, old-fashioned Play-Doh? What was once a ThinkGeek ...

Printers that use sound waves could one day let you build structures made out of honey droplets, or even print human tissue without damaging the cells. Regular inkjet printers are great at controlling ...