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Will 3D printing be a new Olympic Sport in the 21st Century? In the spirit of the Olympic Games, one industrious and energetic designer developed a 3D model of the Olympic Stadium in London. Not only did he develop this model in 6 hours, he recorded his progress in an elegant time-lapse video, sprin

One of the specialty businesses in Rockford is Worland Guitars. I learned of Worland guitars from Kathryn Gustafson‘s blogtalkradio channel. You could pick up her radio interview podcast or visit Worland Guitars by clicking on the guitar picture. Besides getting the history of this unique 20 string,

Regenerative Medicine is bound to make strides in 2012. Dr. Atala, Regenerative Medicine guru, made a presentation in 2007 about the advances in technology predicting what the state of medicine would be in 2012. You can watch it by clicking here. Conferences are already scheduled for March in North

Tissue Engineering or Regenerative Medicine as a career appears to be the hot job choice for the 1st quarter of the 21st century. Time magazine in a cover story reported that researchers are predicting that they will make a pancreas in a petri dish by the year 2015. In 2001 there were 3,000 people w

Although not strictly related to the Shark Tank show, I found this new technology fascinating. Maybe in a future post there may be a corollary analogy but for now this is just a neat story. A materials science specialist was working on a research team to investigate anti-fouling techniques for Navy

We always used to quiz over which came first, the chicken or the egg? Paleontologist Jack Horner has a vision to live his dream and have his own dinosaur. He gives a captivating TED talk about how he plans to reach his life long dream and amuse sixth graders everywhere! Give it a watch by [...]

In my personal experience with 3-D printing at the EIGERlab it wasn’t too hard to let your imagination run wild and think about the possibilities of 3-D objects on demand. In that world we dealt with powders and liquids that would harden under computer control to make physical inanimate objects. Wha

I  always enjoyed watching Siskel and Ebert debate about the hot picks in movies. I sort of miss them. I was intrigued when I saw one of them reappear in the blogosphere.  Pulitzer prize winner Roger Ebert had an interesting speaking engagement at TED in March, 2011. Click here to see what he and [.