For decades, hardware design has been constrained by a simple reality: batteries have been rigid blocks. Whether engineers design drones, smartphones, or wearables, they’ve had to arrange components around cylindrical or prismatic cells, compromising weight distribution, internal volume, and form factor to accommodate the power source. MATERIAL, a startup based in Texas and Florida, aims … Read more

The 2026 Roland-Garros tournament began last week, and Novak Djokovic made a striking entrance in a specially designed jacket that drew attention. The garment features a raised, 3D wolf motif and real clay from the Parisian court. Pelagia Kolotouros, creative director at Lacoste, collaborated with Les Teintures de France, a workshop known for textile dyes … Read more

Today Bambu Lab launches the A2L, a large-format 3D printer the company calls the “Creative Playground.” Built for ambitious creative projects that once required splitting large models into multiple pieces, the A2L brings professional-tier capabilities to a more accessible price while preserving the user-friendly experience of the A-Series. With a 330 × 320 × 325 … Read more

Iris van Herpen’s major retrospective has arrived in New York after stops in Paris, Brisbane, Singapore, and Rotterdam, marking its first North American presentation. From May 16 through December 6, 2026, the Brooklyn Museum houses “Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses.” More than 140 haute couture creations are shown across the museum’s fifth floor, representing … Read more

In the world of technology, 3D printing can sometimes feel like science fiction. While many of us are familiar with printers building objects layer by layer along the traditional X, Y and Z axes, a newer approach is gaining traction: multi-axis 3D printing. By expanding movement beyond the conventional three directions, this technique opens possibilities … Read more

TCT 3Sixty 2026 opened yesterday at the NEC Birmingham, bringing together additive manufacturing professionals from across the UK and beyond. The event continues to present a mix of technology demonstrations, industry case studies, and practical discussions focused on real-world additive manufacturing adoption. With two full days still to run, here is what the conference offers … Read more

Can 3D printing revive extinct birds? Colossal Biosciences is pursuing that possibility. The Dallas-based biotech announced last week that it successfully hatched 26 healthy chickens using a complex artificial egg — an important proof-of-concept for the company’s long-term aim of recreating the Mauritius dodo and New Zealand’s South Island giant moa. Designing a synthetic egg … Read more

Metal additive manufacturing has traditionally been associated with high costs and complex infrastructure, keeping advanced metal 3D printing largely confined to major industrial players. A new wave of manufacturers aims to change that, and Mastrex, a US-based company, is positioning itself as a more accessible option in the laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) market. Drawing … Read more

As major athletic brands expand their use of additive manufacturing, the 3D-printed footwear market is evolving from lifestyle and aesthetic-focused designs toward true high-performance athletic applications. TPM3D today announced a milestone: industrial-scale integration of selective laser sintering (SLS) with high-performance PEBA elastomers for footwear manufacturing. Companies such as Zellerfeld have shown that fully 3D-printed shoes … Read more

Singapore-based startup Castomize has developed a 4D-printed cast designed to solve common problems associated with traditional casts — itching, sweating, skin irritation, and the inability to get wet. Using smart thermoplastic materials, the cast is molded precisely to each patient’s anatomy at the time of application, with no prior scanning required and no saw needed … Read more