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3D Printer Stocks and Investing
We've written a general overview to 3D printer stocks in 2013, which a good place to begin: Click here
Several companies which make 3D printers and 3D modeling software are publicly traded companies. The beauty of investing in 3D printer stocks now is that most of the world has yet to know what 3D printing is, let alone understand the future of this world-changing technology.
3D printer leaders like 3D Systems Technology (DDD) and Stratasys. Inc. (SSYS) are trade on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq, respectively. Two new smaller companies just recently went public: Arcam AB (AMAVF) and ExOne (XONE). Organovo (ONVO) is a pioneer in the 3D bioprinter area.
Some 3D modeling software (CAD) companies that allows the creation of the digital files that serve as input for the 3D printers, are also public. For example, the biggest player is AutoDesk (ADSK); another player, the creator of the massively popular Solidworks software, is a product of a public company in France named Dassault Systèmes, that you can buy on the Nasdaq (DASTY).
This 3D printer stocks archive page will keep you abreast of the latest happenings in 3D printing investment opportunities.
Mataerial: the anti-gravity 3D printer
Trust me when I say you have to click through and see this incredible new concept of a 3D printer. The robotic arm literally draws out a 3D object in thin air.
White House launches $200 million competition for three new Manufacturing Innovation Institutes
3D printing is on fire, and doesn’t need any help from the government. But it’s getting it anyway, in a big way.
New research into 3D printing with the magnificent material graphene
An American company has partnered with Ukrainian researchers to develop a 3D printer that uses graphene as a build material.
NASA emulates the Maker community with SpaceShop
NASA has been paying attention to the Maker community -- so much so that they want to emulate it.
3D printer builds liquid structures from microscopic water droplets
You're going to have to watch the video to believe this one. Researchers are 3D printing liquid structures that could hold cells and drugs, with water droplets.
Skylar Tibbits’ TED Talk on 4D printing
Skylar Tibbits gives a TED Talk on his research with 4D printing, where 3D printed parts can transform from one shape to another shape directly on their own
NAMII announces project funding winners
If you were wondering what exactly the Additive Manufacturing Institute mentioned by President Obama does, they’ve just funded new R&D projects.
In-depth tour of TechShop, “the most important startup to the United States’ manufacturing industry.”
Mark Scoble interviews Techshop CEO Mark Hatch, in an 66-minute tour of TechShop S.F., where he learns about the facility and meets some TechShop entrepreneurs along the way.
Testing the “evolutionary optimization” of jamming with 3D printing
Researchers at the University of Chicago use 3D printing to test a software’s predictions as to what shapes display useful jamming characteristics.
National Fab Lab Network Act of 2013 bill introduced
U.S. Rep. Foster (IL-11) has just announced that the National Fab Lab Network of 2013 bill is now introduced. It would help set up hundreds of Fab Labs across the country.
University of Iowa researchers: 3D printed human organs in 5-10 years
Bioprinting is popping up everywhere, but the University of Iowa has a special weapon: a custom built two-arm 3D printer.
The future of digital fabrication blows 3D printing out of the water
Just when I thought I’d heard it all in the latest 3D Printing news, I went to a meeting last week at MIT on Digital Fabrication that just blew 3D Printing out of the water.
U.S. Rep. Bill Foster to introduce the National Fab Lab Network Act of 2013
U.S. Rep. Bill Foster will introduce the National Fab Lab Network Act of 2013, to enable a federally-chartered non-profit organization, known as the National Fab Lab Network.
3D printer creates keyboard with functional keys — no assembly required
A Stratasys Objet Connex Multi-Material 3D printer has just printed these functional keyboards in one run, no assembly was required.