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An Antitrust case over e-book pricing, Google and Oracle in the “world series” of intellectual-property lawsuits, and a merger between two big 3D-printing companies.
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3D Printing is the Future
If I told you that you could print your own jewelry, would you believe me? Your first instinct would be “Print Jewelry? This sounds ludicrous.” The best ideas have been called crazy initially, but new scientists are turning nay sayers into believers.
Using purely the raw material, design software and printing apparatus, this video shows us that products can be developed in-house.
Other similar videos include a 3D printer churning out customized cookies. Now that’s something else!
Forbes has worked with Bitly and its data on millions of Web clicks to find the most influential media outlets in the US. This map shows which news sources are read and shared at above-average levels by state. Roll over and click on the media outlets below to see where they influence readers and which stories were big hits. Updated monthly to reflect the latest trends.
3-D Printer Makes Customized Cookies
The researchers at Cornell University have been cooking up a new appliance for your home — a 3-D food printer. They’ve been experimenting with all kinds of goo, including cheese, cookie dough and liquid turkey.
Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes has bought a majority stake in one of the country’s most renown publications “The New Republic”. The New Republic has been a leading institution in journalism, providing insight into new events in the field of arts, politics, technology etc.
By liquidating some of his stake in Facebook to acquire the New Republic, one would view this as a bold move, considering the drop in print media viewership recently. However, Chris Hughes is a powerhouse of ideas and is confident that the New Republic will continue to be a leading institution in the journalism arena, having successfully directed Obama’s digital campaign back in 2008. At 27, not a whole lot of people can boast that they are the editors in chief of a leading news publication; Chris Hughes can.
Click on the link to read his letter to his TNR readers.
Robotic dinosaurs to be made with 3D printers.
Palaeontologists at Drexel University are using 3D printers to reconstruct dinosaur skeletons, which will be animated using robotics to see how the dinosaurs might have moved and behaved.
The team is first using a 3D scanner to analyse existing bones, before using a 3D printer to construct an exact replica of the skeleton. A mechanical engineer is working with the team to develop the robotic side of the project, but the 3D printing will also allow them to create small-scale models for educational use, and to create exact-size replicas for museum display, without the limitation on the number of copies made and materials and storage hassles of traditional casting methods.
The first goal is to have a working robotic dinosaur limb constructed by the end of 2012. A complete robotic dinosaur replica will take one to two years to create.
While 3D printers have been available for a few years, they have been slow to catch on with home users, instead finding niche markets like in medicine, where they have been used to print organs and tailored prosthetics for patients. The Pirate Bay launched a new category for 3D designs last month, predicting a world where “you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.”
Who knows, maybe in the zoo of the future we will be wearing downloaded Nike shoes and watching a robotic Tyrannosaurus chase a newly cloned woolly mammoth!
(via 8bitfuture)
Crossfy
Crossfy brings interactive multimedia content from the web to the print, allowing publishers to add complementary information and interactivity to an otherwise statical content.
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The Pirate Bay launches category for 3D printers.
When 3D printers started becoming affordable for home users a few years ago, many saw it as the start of a new revolution where goods would no longer need to be shipped around the world, but where end users would simply download a design and have the object printed on their home printer. Unfortunately it never took off in the mainstream market, although some of the ideas created were pretty cool - the RepRap 3D printer claims to be able to print all it’s own parts, almost making it a self replicating machine.
Now file sharing website The Pirate Bay has launched a new (and more legitimate) category, which it labels ‘Physibles’ - or designs for 3D objects which can be printed on home 3D printers.
From The Pirate Bay blog:
We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.
The benefit to society is huge. No more shipping huge amount of products around the world. No more shipping the broken products back. No more child labour. We’ll be able to print food for hungry people. We’ll be able to share not only a recipe, but the full meal. We’ll be able to actually copy that floppy, if we needed one.
(via 8bitfuture)
Apple didn’t make publishing easier
They made it easier to get your ideas into digital print.
There’s a huge difference between printing and publishing.
Printing is a commodity, a straightforward but important process that takes time and money. Clearly, digital ‘print’ in the form of an ebook is easier and cheaper than paper printing, which involves cutting down trees and paying for trucks and shipping, etc.
But publishing is something else entirely. Publishing is the act of curation, of taking financial risk to do the marketing work of finding people who want to read your book. Publishing is venture capital for ideas. Publishing involves either building direct relationships with readers (like you and I have) or in gaining access to scarce shelf space with retailers who have those relationships. A good publisher, then, gets your book on the shelf at Barnes and Noble, or uses some sort of connection (an electronic one, perhaps, or a trade show) to get the book in front of the reader and to make a sale.
Making it easier to get a book in the iBook store is great, it will enable even more writers to get their books in print. In addition, Apple’s new software will make those books prettier and maybe more fun.
But publishing? Not at all. Doesn’t help one bit.
Source: Seth Godin at The Domino project
The laughing heart. By Charles Bukowski
It’s up to everyone of us to live life to the fullest, to follow our dreams and make the world a better place for us and everyone. What are you working on?
