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Ryan Orban

Ryan Orban

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3d Printing

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  1. 3D Printer Produces Device to Help Baby Breathe

    University of Michigan doctors saved an infant's life in 2013 by 3D printing a biodegradable splint to hold his collapsing trachea open. One of the first surgical applications of personalized 3D-printed implants, and a milestone in custom medical device fabrication.

  2. It Will Be Awesome if They Don't Screw it Up: 3D Printing and Intellectual Property

    Public Knowledge's 2012 white paper examining how existing copyright, patent, and trademark law applies to 3D printing — and arguing that the right policy response is restraint, not a DMCA-style preemptive clampdown. The title says the technology will be awesome if policymakers don't overreact.

  3. Printing Evolves: An Inkjet for Living Tissue

    WSJ piece on inkjet-style bioprinters capable of depositing living cells layer by layer to build tissue structures — a 2012 snapshot of bioprinting before it hit mainstream awareness. The long road from printed tissue samples to transplantable organs had just begun.

  4. Meshu: Turn Your Places into Beautiful Objects

    Meshu turned personal location data from Foursquare and other sources into 3D-printed jewelry using Delaunay triangulation — an early example of mass-customization through algorithmic design and 3D printing.

  5. 10 Things to Make With Your 3D Printer

    Wired's 2012 roundup of 10 things to make with your 3D printer — dinosaur bones, DNA models, space shuttle parts — captured peak MakerBot era optimism. A snapshot of when consumer 3D printing was still novel enough that 'you can print that' was genuinely exciting.

  6. As 3D Printing Heats Up, Stratasys And Objet Merge

    TechCrunch's coverage of the Stratasys-Objet merger in 2012, consolidating two of the largest professional 3D printing companies. A market-structure moment in the first mainstream wave of 3D printing hype.

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