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Submission + - Two South African Cancer Patients Receive 3D Printed Titanium Jaw Implants (3dprint.com)

Submitted by jigmypig on Friday July 25, 2014 @06:56AM

jigmypig writes: Two patients in South Africa that have had their lives and more specifically their jaws severely affected by cancer, have just received 3D printed jaw implants. The jaws were 3D printed using a laser sintering process that melts powdered titanium, one layer at a time. The process saves a ton of money, and unlike traditional manufacturing of titanium jaws, it doesn't waste any materials. Traditional manufacturing wastes up to 80% of the titanium block used in the process, whereas with 3D printing there is little to no waste at all. This new process also allows for a fully customizable solution. The models are drawn up in CAD software, and then printed out to precisely fit the patient to a tee.

Submission + - 15 Year Old Is Developing a 3D Printer 10 Times Faster Than Anything Ever Create (3dprint.com)

Submitted by jigmypig on Sunday July 06, 2014 @09:40AM

jigmypig writes: One of the main issues with 3D printers today is that they lack in one area; speed. A 15 year old boy named Thomas Suarez is developing a 3D printer that he says is the most reliable, most advanced, and faster than any 3D printer on the market today. In fact he claims it is 10 times faster than any 3D printer ever created. His company, CarrotCorp plans to release more details soon.

Submission + - LTE and GSM wireless getting hitched thanks to new technology

Submitted by alphadogg on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @10:31AM

alphadogg writes: In the hunt for more spectrum to speed up mobile networks, Vodafone and Huawei Technologies have successfully tested a technology that lets LTE and GSM share the same frequencies. The speed of future mobile networks will depend on the amount of spectrum mobile operators can get their hands on. The more they get, the wider the roads they can build. One thing they can do to get more space is to reuse frequencies that are currently used for older technologies such as GSM and 3G. But that isn’t as easy as sounds, as operators still have a lot of voice and messaging traffic in those older networks. However, using a technology called GL DSS (GSM-LTE Dynamic Spectrum Sharing) Vodafone and Huawei have shown a way to allow GSM and LTE to coexist.

Submission + - Mesa 10.2 Improves Linux's Open-Source Graphics Drivers (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 07, 2014 @03:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: Mesa 10.2 was introduced this week as the new shining example of what open source graphics (and open source projects in general) are capable of achieving. The latest release of this often underrepresented open source graphics driver project has many new OpenGL and driver features including a number of new OpenGL 4 extensions implemented, the reverse-engineered Freedreno driver now poses serious competition to Qualcomm's Adreno driver, an OpenMAX implementation was added for Radeon video encoding support, Intel Broadwell support now works better, the software rasterizer supports OpenGL 3.3, and many other changes are present.

Comment That's a lot of money to raise. (Score 1) 2

by jigmypig on Monday June 02, 2014 @12:19PM (#47147357) Attached to: Swedish Artist Tries To 3D Print a Red House on the Moon

I doubt he will be able to raise that much money. If he does though, I'd love to watch the progress of this.

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