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  • Neil Gershenfeld: The Next Industrial Revolution Is Bigger Than 3D Printing
    Science | January 24, 2013 Neil Gershenfeld: The Next Industrial Revolution Is Bigger Than 3D Printing

    — "Microwave ovens are convenient for some things, but they still haven’t replaced the rest of the kitchen," science speaker Neil Gershenfeld says in a recent interview. While 3D printing is certainly a breakthrough technology—it isn't necessarily the beginning of a...

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  • 3D Couture: Neri Oxman Prints Clothing For Paris Fashion Week [VIDEO]
    Science | January 23, 2013 3D Couture: Neri Oxman Prints Clothing For Paris Fashion Week [VIDEO]

    — Haute couture clothing is designed to conform perfectly to a person's body; it's meant to feel almost like a second skin. Thanks to Neri Oxman's new method of digital fabrication, models at Paris Fashion Week wore couture designs that literally conformed to their bodies. Oxman, an...

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  • CNN's Next Big Thing: Neri Oxman's Machines That Design Nature
    Innovation | December 11, 2012 CNN's Next Big Thing: Neri Oxman's Machines That Design Nature

    — "I don't want to design a building as I have learned," Neri Oxman tells CNN, "I want to question what it means to design a building." By envisioning a future where we can literally print a building, the award-winning designer is doing just that: disrupting traditional models of creation and innovating for the future. Recently featured on CNN's "The...

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  • Neri Oxman Talks to <em>Wired</em> About "The Largest 3D Printer in the World"
    Science | November 19, 2012 Neri Oxman Talks to Wired About "The Largest 3D Printer in the World"

    — "Within ten years, we'll see completely different construction technologies," Neri Oxman tells Wired magazine. Oxman, an award-winning designer and Research Group Director at the MIT Media Lab recently showed some of these breakthrough construction...

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  • Neri Oxman: Using 3D Printing To Breathe New Life Into Design [VIDEO]
    Innovation | October 26, 2012 Neri Oxman: Using 3D Printing To Breathe New Life Into Design [VIDEO]

    — As part of her recent exhibition, "Imaginary Beings: Mythologies of the Not Yet," and in her other work, Neri Oxman has been collaborating with a team of design experts to—quite literally—breathe life into typically static design. Making extensive use of 3D printing technology, Oxman is attempting to bring technology and design together with nature. Rather than creating...

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