Well, this is just fantastic. We're all for the advancement of robot technology so that one day they can cater to our every beck and call. But researchers at ETH Zurich have foolishly designed a robot that can create its own custom tools to complete tasks. Read More >

You no longer have to be a smuggler who drops his shipments at the first sign of an Imperial cruiser to be frozen in carbonite. As part of its Star Wars-themed weekends, Disney World is now offering that service to all of its guests. Read More >

Imagine a future where you can just download a drug off the internet and print it out when you need a quick pick-me-up – it’s just become a reality thanks to the marvels of 3D printers. Researchers from Scotland have made their own DIY 3D-printing drugstore and they reckon you’ll be able to use them to print your own drugs right from the comfort of your own home. Read More >

The creators of what will be one of the first commercially available 3D chocolate printers had hoped their device would hit the market well before Easter, letting consumers print their own cheap bunnies and eggs at home. Read More >

The game of chess has long been viewed as a pursuit for nerds. But that's totally going to change with Joseph Larson's Thingiverse creation—a custom chess set where all the pieces come together to form a super robot ala Voltron. Read More >

I’ve seen some seriously useless or just plain fugly iPhone cases in my time, but none of them have been as nuts as this tidy little collection from the readers of Engineer vs Design. It held a 3D printer competition for the most absured case concepts people could come up with. There are 180 in all to browse; some awesome, some pretty dumb, but here are five of my favourites. Read More >

If you've ever wished your building sets like Lego, K'Nex, and maybe even Mechano could all fit in with each other, this universal construction kit will make your dreams come true. That is, uh, if you've got a 3D printer handy. Read More >

This is London Tower Bridge, St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, and the tiniest F1 formula car you can imagine, all printed by the fastest 3D printer in the world. Watch it in action in this video. Read More >

iPhone cases tend to be pretty generic, but if you can make a sound, you can have your own completely unique case. That's because Shapeways will turns sounds—any sound—into an iPhone case. Read More >

You’ve got, or at least have on order, your slice of Raspberry Pi and although it’s beautiful it its simplicity, it’s a tad vulnerable in its naked circuit board-form. Thankfully, someone’s thought ahead and is working on a 3D-printable case to protect your Pi. Read More >

Siri is a lot of things to a lot of people—unmotivational fitness coach, mildly-incompetent navigator, and tin-eared first runner-up in a two-AI contest to name just a few. But now a group of artists have given Siri a human touch by supposing what the automated assistant would look like in the flesh. Read More >

According to The Creators Project, the Smithsonian has over 137 million pieces in its collection, but only enough room to display about 2 percent of them. So it's turning to 3D printing to share as much as it can. Read More >

Paleontologists are working on building building giant robot dinosaurs out of 3-D printed bones. For science. Short of finding a mosquito trapped in amber and opening an ill-fated velociraptor-laden theme park, that's the coolest possible way to study dinosaurs. Read More >

The Pirate Bay’s not content with just digital piracy anymore; it’s moving towards physical piracy with the help of 3D printers. It wants you to be able to literally download and print out a car, but for starters you can grab a model of the infamous site’s ship-based logo and print it out yourself. Read More >

If dental hygiene isn't high on your priorities, don't worry: now you can just print a new set of teeth. Last year, an 83-year-old woman had her entire lower jaw replaced with a 3D printed replica. Read More >