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The Hibbot: Teaching Children with Cerebral Palsy to Walk, One Step at a Time

Stephanie Benoit
June 28, 2016
The Hibbot: Teaching Children with Cerebral Palsy to Walk, One Step at a Time

Meet Yano De Laet, a young boy who suffers from Cerebral Palsy. Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a permanent movement disorder caused by a lesion in the developmental brain which causes muscle weakness, abnormal tone, movement disorders and balance problems. The brain damage often occurs before or during the birth of the child, and there is no cure for the condition. Yano regularly undergoes consultations at the Cerebral Palsy Reference Center at Pellenberg, UZ Leuven in Belgium, and after hearing about the Hibbot, his doctor thought he would be an ideal candidate for the project.

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New 3D-Printed Eyewear Collection Hits Stores!

Radhika Dhuru
June 20, 2016
New 3D-Printed Eyewear Collection Hits Stores!

Hoet Design Studio’s Cabrio G, a collection of sunglasses for design lovers, comes from a unique inspiration: luxury cars. The prototype of Cabrio G was unveiled at the Brussels Expo 2016, in the company of the Rolls-Royce and McLaren cars that had inspired it. Now that the newest Cabrio collection has just hit stores, take a look at what happens when inspired design meets innovative manufacturing.

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Saving Time in Your Medical Image Segmentation Process with Mimics 19

Sjoerd Kolk
June 15, 2016
Saving Time in Your Medical Image Segmentation Process with Mimics 19

When segmenting medical image data, have you ever struggled with separating two bones from each other? Well, you’re not the only one.

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First Fully 3D-Printed Luxury Glasses: Our Co-Creation with Antwerp Fashion Academy Student Dávid Ring

Stephanie Benoit
June 15, 2016
First Fully 3D-Printed Luxury Glasses: Our Co-Creation with Antwerp Fashion Academy Student Dávid Ring

Fashion can be provocative, inspiring, political and revolutionary – but it is never boring. We experienced this first-hand when we attended the fashion show of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp last week. Antwerp has long been the fashion capital of Belgium, and young designers from all over the world study at the renowned Fashion Department of the university; at the end of the year they get to present everything they’ve learnt on a real catwalk, with the Master’s students presenting an entire collection.

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The GO Wheelchair: A Bespoke Solution for Wheelchair Users

Stephanie Benoit
May 26, 2016
The GO Wheelchair: A Bespoke Solution for Wheelchair Users

Benjamin Hubert of design agency Layer is the creative force behind the GO Wheelchair, the world’s first 3D printed consumer wheelchair. It’s being launched this week at Clerkenwell Design Week in London as part of an exhibition of Layer’s most recent work. Whilst the project is still at the concept stage right now, it has the potential to drastically alter the daily life of wheelchair users. We talked to Benjamin to find out what drove him to create this project, and why he turned to 3D Printing for the job!

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Setting Sail for the Seven Provinces: Materialise 3D Prints a Ship Replica

Stephanie Benoit
May 25, 2016
Setting Sail for the Seven Provinces: Materialise 3D-Prints a Ship Replica

Rotterdam-based design studio, & designshop, received a unique request. Founded by Elwin and Nynke van der Hoek, the design studio and shop was tasked with recreating the magnificent Seven Provinces galleon, a 17th century warship anchored in the Rotterdam harbor, on a scale that would just about fit in an office lobby. But building scale replicas of ships is a long, labor-intensive project, and doing so by hand can take up to a year and a half — whereas they had only seven months. The answer? 3D Printing! The result is this magnificent 1.5-meter-long model, designed by & designshop and printed at Materialise. Meet the Seven Provinces, and its 3D-printed scale replica.

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Cubetto Playset gets the Materialise Design & Engineering Treatment

Natalie Simpson
May 17, 2016
Cubetto Playset gets the Materialise Design & Engineering Treatment

When Primo came to Materialise they had already identified 3D Printing as the ideal manufacturing method for the first 650 runs of the Cubetto Playset. What they went on to discover was the value you can realise when a product is designed specifically for 3D Printing. A tangible programming interface that teaches children programming logic without the need for literacy, the Cubetto Playset consists of a programming interface, a set of instruction blocks and board, and the star of the show, a robot called ‘Cubetto’. Comprised of natural materials and electronics, Primo had selected Additive Manufacturing to produce eleven parts including the programming blocks and components that would be used to construct the Cubetto robot.

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5 Things You Need to Consider when 3D Printing Wearables

Radhika Dhuru
April 28, 2016
5 Things You Need to Consider when 3D Printing Wearables

Far from its days as a niche technology, 3D Printing now accounts for more than 90% of the world’s in-ear hearing aids: and that’s just one example of how 3D Printing is making waves in the manufacturing sector across diverse industries. At Materialise, we’ve announced five major eyewear manufacturing projects in the past year alone, in addition to several 3D-printed fashion collaborations and other consumer products.

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Getting Under the Skin: Analyzing Thumb Movement in 3D

Alex M
April 27, 2016
Getting Under the Skin: Analyzing Thumb Movement in 3D

The study of thumb movement has long been hampered by the limitations of conventional motion-capture techniques. To really get underneath the skin of the test subjects, researchers at KU Leuven Kulak turned to medical 3D imaging to view the full range of the hand’s kinematic chain, including the trapeziometacarpal, scaphotrapezial and radioscaphoid joints.

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A New Method to Evaluate Hip Prostheses: Simulating Gait Cycles

Sandrine Debecker
April 25, 2016
A New Method to Evaluate Hip Prostheses: Simulating Gait Cycles

Hip disorders such as cartilage degeneration or bone fractures are common pathologies which are often treated with prosthetic surgery. Andrea Calvo-Echenique from the University of Zaragoza, Spain investigated how to prolong the lifespan of hip prostheses, and assessed the best options by comparing different stems and bearing materials. Her goals were to reduce the wear in bearing surfaces, as well as reducing the loosening of the stem, which tends to be caused by a lack of mechanical load in the bone. She received a Mimics innovation Award for the best poster submission in 2015.

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