US orders removal of controversial online 3D-gun designs Washington: The US has ordered the removal of controversial online files which allowed users to 3D-print their own unregistered plastic handgun at home.

The order from the State Department to Defense Distributed to remove the blueprints for the plastic gun comes after they were downloaded more than 100,000 times.

The department sent a three-page cease and desist letter dated Wednesday to Cody Wilson, Defense Distributed's 25-year-old founder, demanding that the group remove instructions for printing a handgun with a 3-D printer from its website.

Earlier this week Wilson, a self-described "crypto- anarchist" who believes everyone has a right to a gun, posted a video online showing a single shot being fired from "The Liberator," a plastic handgun that was assembled entirely from parts made with a 3-D printer....more    
06:40 PM, May 10, 2013

3D printing has already changed the game for manufacturing specialised products such as medical devices but the real revolution will come when designers start to rethink the shapes of objects. 3D printing removes the limitations of the manufacturing process from the equation, which means whatever can be designed on a computer can be turned into an object, 3D printing specialists say. Here are some images relating to 3D printing technology. A 3D model of a complex anaplastology case, created in collaboration with the anaplastologist Jan De Cubber, is seen at the Belgian company Materialise, the biggest 3D printer in Europe, in Leuven. 3D printing has already changed the game for manufacturing specialized products such as medical devices but the real revolution will come when designers start to rethink the shapes of objects.
01:17 PM, Mar 10, 2013

3Doodler: World's first 3D printing pen that can draw in the air 3Doodler is claimed to be the world's first and only 3D Printing Pen. Using ABS plastic (the material used by many 3D printers), 3Doodler draws in the air or on surfaces. ...  
02:28 PM, Feb 20, 2013

Possible to download, print and then fire a gun San Francisco: Downloading a gun's design plans to your computer, building it on a three-dimensional printer and firing it minutes later. No background checks, no questions asked. Sound far-fetched? It's not. And that is disquieting for gun control advocates. US Representative Steven Israel, said the prospect of such guns becoming reality is reason enough for the renewal of the Undetectable Firearms Act, which makes illegal the building of guns that...  
06:40 PM, Dec 21, 2012