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Photo 1 of 15 <strong>15. Playsurface - touch computing table</strong> <br>• Templeman Automation of Somerville <br>• An inexpensive touch table that allows multiple users to...
View ArticleFormlabs updates its desktop 3D printer with debut of Form 1+
Somerville’s FormLabs has updated its 3D printer with a more powerful laser, more precise control, and faster performance, all at the current model’s price. The Form 1+’s debut video also features at...
View ArticleVC bubble or not, sea of funding options is boon for entrepreneurs
Are we in a venture capital bubble? No one quite agrees as to whether we are or not, and venture capitalists and industry analysts have staked out on both sides of the debate over the course of 2014....
View ArticleBoston startups show off the future of 3-D printing at CES
The floor space dedicated to 3-D printers at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is growing faster than waistlines at the nearby casino buffets. Just a year or two ago, a handful of...
View ArticleFantastic things I cannot afford: A best of CES
Photo 1 of 9 Lenovo LaVie HZ550 is the world's lightest 13-inch laptop, weighing in at just 1.72 pounds. Samsung SE790C was among the many curved TVs and monitors on display at CES this year. Dell...
View ArticleAn animated short film, one 3-D piece at a time
Photo 1 of 7 "Chase Me" is a two-minute stop-action film that was created entirely by using a Formlabs printer. Filmmaker Gilles-Alexandre Deschaud sketched out the storyboard for the film by hand. He...
View ArticleBoston MakerBot store shuttered in parent company’s cost-cutting
Industrial designers and manufacturers have been using 3-D printers for years to make mockups, models, and prototypes. In the past few years, a gang of startups have tried to cash in on the idea that...
View ArticleWith consumer demand soft, 3-D printing goes back to school
A few years ago, 3-D printers were touted as the hottest new gadget by the technology world’s early adopters. Regular people, it turns out, were less excited by the idea of a device that could turn...
View ArticleShaky start, but 3-D printing revolution underway
Michael Perrone was standing at a workbench next to one of the world’s most advanced 3-D printers, trying to figure out what was going wrong. The printer, not yet on the market, can produce small...
View ArticleSomerville’s Formlabs rolls out retooled 3-D printer
Formlabs chief executive Max Lobovsky says that his Somerville startup is working hard to make 3-D printing objects more like printing out a two-dimensional document. The company’s new Form 2 printer,...
View ArticleCan Massachusetts grow the next EMC?
Massachusetts has birthed three global giants that helped pioneer the technology landscape of the last half-century: Digital Equipment, Lotus Development, and EMC. And as of October, all three have now...
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