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Behind the New Frames in the 3D-Printed Cabrio Collection: A Chat with Eyewear Designer Bieke Hoet!

Radhika Dhuru
November 05, 2015
Behind the New Frames in the 3D-Printed Cabrio Collection: A Chat with Eyewear Designer Bieke Hoet!

Earlier this year, Materialise and eyewear specialist Hoet Design Studio launched the 3D-printed Cabrio collection. Since then, Materialise and Hoet joined hands again for a collaboration with SEIKO for the SEIKO Xchanger collection of sports eyewear – which won the Silmo d’Or award last month. Having set the bar up high, Materialise and Hoet are back with all-new frames, featuring all-new innovations including the world’s first 3D-printed adjustable temple system, to expand the 3D-printed Cabrio collection. Bieke Hoet, owner of the Hoet Design Studio, had a chat with us about where all this is heading for the eyewear world. (To learn more about how this collection is 3D-printed in Materialise’s certified manufacturing services, check out our case study here.)

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Eyes on the Prize! Materialise and SEIKO’s Xchanger Collection Wins Silmo d’Or Award for Sports Eyewear

Radhika Dhuru
October 05, 2015
Eyes on the Prize! Materialise and SEIKO’s Xchanger Collection Wins Silmo d’Or Award for Sports Eyewear

When the SEIKO Xchanger collection of 3D-printed sports eyewear was introduced at the Silmo optical fair in Paris this month, it won the prestigious Silmo d’Or Award for sports equipment. With this collaboration between SEIKO Optical Europe, Materialise, and Hoet Design Studio, 3D Printing is making its presence known in the eyewear industry. Here’s what this award-winning collection offers the sportively-inclined amongst us. Combining performance, comfort and personalization, so you never have to exchange these elements for each other: instead, the Xchanger lets you keep all these and exchange frame components instead to best fit your style and sport.

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3D Printing Helps High School Students Shoot for the Stars

Elizabeth Boorman
December 09, 2014
3D Printing Helps High School Students Shoot for the Stars

People’s fascination with outer space is one that goes back to the beginning of time. It brings out a sense of wonder in people because of its vastness and beauty. Last summer, four German high school students with the same wonder wanted to know more about our atmosphere. They created a group called Cantucky and built a satellite as part of the “CanSat” competition. The name of the competition says it all: its goal is for high school students to build a satellite the size of a standard beverage can.

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The Launch of a 3D-Printed Rocket

Sarah Verhaeghe
October 21, 2014
The Launch of a 3D-Printed Rocket

BOLDROCKET has an ambitious plan: to deliver aspiring business and technology solutions to the finance services industry that changes the traditional way that people think. Set out with a mission to foster a creative environment in the office, D+DS architecture designed the office and approached Materialise to print a 3.7-meter-long orange 3D Printed rocket for BOLDROCKET’s new office in London.

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Change the Focus with Panasonic

Pieter Vos
October 02, 2014
Change the Focus with Panasonic

Like any other art form, photography is a way to express yourself. Imagine not only doing so through the pictures you take, but also through the device you take them with. This idea triggered Panasonic to explore 3D printing as a way to personalize its products.

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Wearable Tech Just Got Smarter: Anouk Wipprecht's Intel-Edison-powered, 3D-printed “Synapse Dress” Logs Your Mood

Elizabeth Boorman
September 16, 2014
Wearable Tech Just Got Smarter: Anouk Wipprecht's Intel-Edison-powered, 3D-printed “Synapse Dress” Logs Your Mood

Changing your appearance with your mood is a topic that's no longer reserved for New Age followers or sci-fi fans. By embedding Intel’s super versatile, small-in-size-but-large-in-processing-capacity microcontroller called “Intel Edison”, Anouk Wipprecht created "Synapse", a smart dress based on biosensors that takes user experience to the next level, as it acts on the wearer’s behalf!

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3D Print Start-Up Toyze Secures a Major Backer and Explains Its Ambitious Growth Plan

Elizabeth Boorman
August 01, 2014
3D Print Start-Up Toyze Secures a Major Backer and Explains Its Ambitious Growth Plan

Om Nom, Toss, Roto, Boo, Blue and Lick are mobile game characters with millions of fans around the world — and the start of an adventure for one 3D print business. Toyze is an app where users can create, customize, and order 3D printed figurines of popular mobile game characters (including the cast of Zeptolab's beloved Cut the Rope series.) The app has already garnered praise by major publications such as VentureBeat, 3Dprint.com, and Yahoo Finance. How'd they do all that in under a year?

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5 Parameters That Decide the Success of Your 3D Printing Project

Pieter Vos
July 11, 2014
5 Parameters That Decide the Success of Your 3D Printing Project

Up to how many parts is 3D Printing the most cost-efficient manufacturing technique? It’s one of the most frequently asked questions in the 3D Printing business and at the same time the most difficult one to answer. After all, series size is far from the only parameter that decides the success of your Additive Manufacturing project. With the 3D Print Barometer, Materialise developed a free tool that goes beyond replying, “It depends,” and provides tangible insights in the feasibility of 3D Printing your product.

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Book by 3D Print Sculpture Artist Nick Ervinck Hits the Shelves

Pieter Vos
June 19, 2014
Book by 3D Print Sculpture Artist Nick Ervinck Hits the Shelves

Nick Ervinck’s art can be seen all around Belgium. If you’ve passed through Roeselare, you might have seen his artwork on the side of the Maselis grain factory. If you live in Leuven, you may have seen his exhibition at the M Museum. While walking on the beach, you might have passed by some of his sculptures in Bredene.

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3D Printing and Iris van Herpen for the Biopiracy Fashion Show in Paris

Vanessa Palsenbarg
March 07, 2014
3D Printing and Iris van Herpen for the Biopiracy Fashion Show in Paris

Everything about it was impressive, the setting, the music, the shrink-wrapped models, and of course, the 3D-printed, flexible dress!

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