Since the very beginning, the prevailing wisdom regarding consumer desktop 3D printers was that they were excellent tools for producing prototypes or one-off creations, but anything more than that … ...

A plethora of substances can be used for 3D printing these days. Most people go for conventional plastics like ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) or polycarbonate. Krill Design, however, has ...

The Milan-based design studio Krill Design has 3D printed Sicilian orange peels into Ohmie, a lamp that can be composted along with other household waste.

The Bulbing 2D/3D lamps from Studio Cheha on Kickstarter are a fun visual mind trick. When you look at the lamps from the front, they appear to have 3D shades, like a regular lamp.

The Bloom Table Lamp opens up right in front of your eyes. Its shade transforms from a closed bud-like position and expands to release more light. Designed by the French designed Patric Jouin for ...

Switching on a lamp is all it takes to turn a table-top into an interactive map with this clever display, on show at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics and animation conference in Los Angeles.. Multi ...

And 3D printing has had a bit of a rocky journey itself. It's an $11 billion industry , but one that has so far been mostly used for niche or specialized purposes, like medical manufacturing.

Any one of these lamps lasts for up to 50,000 hours — meaning it'll light up your space up until the premiere, and all the times you undoubtedly go back to watch it again.