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Engineer’s Innovative Device Increases Any 4-Wheeler EV’s Battery Range by up to 20%

This article is part of a deep dive into Electric Vehicles in India. #EVinIndia is the first chapter of ‘Shaping Sustainability’, an exclusive series by The Better India to give our readers an in-dept...

How a Nondescript Box Has Been Saving Lives

How a Nondescript Box Has Been Saving Lives

By artificialintelligence   |   22/02/2023   |  

One afternoon, a dozen Arizona State University students gathered to spend the morning cutting cardboard, taping fans and assembling filters in an effort to build 125 portable air purifiers for local...

Staples’ New Sculpteo-Powered Online 3D Printing Service Launches

Staples’ New Sculpteo-Powered Online 3D Printing Service Launches

By artificialintelligence   |   21/02/2023   |  

As one of the United States largest office supply chain stores Staples has been putting a lot of muscle behind 3D printing in the past year. Just last year Staples started rolling out in-store 3D prin...

Government to pilot 3D-printed houses in South Africa

Government to pilot 3D-printed houses in South Africa

By artificialintelligence   |   20/02/2023   |  

The Department of Science And Innovation (DSI) is piloting the use of 3D-printed homes to help address South Africa’s housing shortfall.In a presentation to parliament this week, the department said 2...

COBOD allows engineers to design their own concrete 3D printer with new configurator application

Construction additive manufacturing specialist COBOD has launched a new application that enables users to configure their own concrete 3D printer.Appropriately named the COBOD Configurator, the firm’s...

Press & Sun-Bulletin Pulls Plug on Saturday Print Edition

Press & Sun-Bulletin Pulls Plug on Saturday Print Edition

By artificialintelligence   |   18/02/2023   |  

For the first time in more than seven decades, Binghamton newspaper fans will no longer receive a print edition seven days a week.The Press & Sun-Bulletin plans to drop its Saturday print edition...

City of Boston Archaeology Program Goes Digital

City of Boston Archaeology Program Goes Digital

By artificialintelligence   |   17/02/2023   |  

Funded by a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Program hired Project Archaeologist Lauryn Sharp and Digital Archaeologist Nadia Kline to complete the project. The goal...

Disruptive Technology Investing Is Rebounding

Disruptive Technology Investing Is Rebounding

By artificialintelligence   |   16/02/2023   |  

Disruptive technology is back in the spotlight, with well-known funds such as theARK Innovation ETF (ARKK)and theGoldman Sachs Innovate Equity ETF (GINN)raking in double digit returns over the past we...

4D Printing Exists, and Objects Can Change Over Time

4D Printing Exists, and Objects Can Change Over Time

By artificialintelligence   |   15/02/2023   |  

Despite the fact that many don’t quite understand how 3D printing works, the process has already evolved into another dimension. 4D printing is a new offshoot that takes 3D printing and adds the eleme...

Nebraska Engineering students craft prosthetic for cat Nebraska Engineering students craft prosthetic for cat

Olive may have nine lives, but she had just three legs.Until the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Abby Smith, Harrison Grasso and three fellow seniors in biological systems engineering put in the legw...

UCL, USC and FabRx develop 3D printed punctal plugs to combat dry eye disorder

UCL, USC and FabRx develop 3D printed punctal plugs to combat dry eye disorder

By artificialintelligence   |   13/02/2023   |  

The 2021 3D Printing Industry Awards shortlists are open for voting, have your say now.Pharmaceutical 3D printing specialist FabRX, alongside researchers from University College London (UCL) and Spain...

Rounding Up: Do Carbon Fiber Wheels Improve EV Efficiency?

Rounding Up: Do Carbon Fiber Wheels Improve EV Efficiency?

By artificialintelligence   |   12/02/2023   |  

After range and charging time, a concerning factor of electric vehicles, like the 2022 BMW iX, is weight. For the same size vehicle, an EV will be heavier than its ICE counterpart due to the weight of...

Search location by ZIP code Iowa State plans 3D-printed houses for rural Iowa

Search location by ZIP code Iowa State plans 3D-printed houses for rural Iowa

By artificialintelligence   |   11/02/2023   |  

Designers at Iowa State University are about to start making houses by printing them with a giant 3-D printing machine.And the new process could help rebuild one flood-damaged Iowa town.“I'd like to t...

Shapeways and Sitara Update Dana-Farber 3D Printed Zebrafish Display, Adding NFC Tags

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shapeways and Sitara Systems recently updated the Zebrafish Display at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. Created nearly a decade ago by Shapeways an...

Flashforge Adventurer 3 Lite 3D Printer Review: More Printing, Less Tinkering

Flashforge Adventurer 3 Lite 3D Printer Review: More Printing, Less Tinkering

By artificialintelligence   |   09/02/2023   |  

The Flashforge Adventurer 3 Lite, contrary to its name, is a feature-packed 3D printer that outperforms many printers in the sub-$300 price range. The less-expensive sibling to the Adventurer 3, the A...