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by Bruce Brown | June 7, 2021 | Health
Advances in 3D printing continue to astound as the technology leaps forward. A recent FDA decision moves the puck way down the ice in its clearance of Desktop Health’s 3D printed dental prosthetics. We’ve written about Virginia Tech’s work with...
by Bruce Brown | April 19, 2019 | Enabling Tech
Consumer 3D printing began to be a thing in 2009 when the Stratasys patent for Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) expired and entered the public domain. Since the early days of 3D printing tiny dinosaurs and toys, consumer 3D printing developed rapidly. Commercially 3D...
by Kimberly Houston | February 8, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
There are an estimated 5 million upper limb amputees worldwide, many of them children. Prosthetic limbs can cost upwards of $40,000 or more, and children rapidly outgrow them. Because the cost of prosthetics is prohibitive, many children simply go without them. Now a...
