3d scanner

Back in 2013, Occipital (a company then best known for making the RedLaser barcode scanning app) released the Structure Sensor, a device that turned any iPad you strapped it to into a portable 3D scan

The Transportation Security Agency will expand its 3D carry-on luggage scanning program it originally launched in more than a dozen airports this July. The agency originally estimated the program wou

3D body scanning systems have hit the big time after years of stops and starts. Hot on the heels of Original Stitch’s Bodygram, another 3D scanner, 3DLOOK, has entered into the fray with a $1 mi

Kat Kinkead and Peter Weijmarshausen met at their old company, Shapeways. Weijmarshausen recently stepped down as CEO and was looking for something cool to do when he and Kinkead realized that the mos

Topology Eyewear is an augmented reality app providing custom-fit glasses from a 3D scan of your face. Most glasses are mass manufactured to fit a supposedly symmetric head. The problem is, most of us

MIT's Camera Culture group has been able to successfully capture a high-resolution 3D scan of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull using about $150 worth of equipment and some free software. The skull, which bel

3D body scanning isn’t very exciting right now – you can’t really use your scan anywhere except maybe on Thingiverse where people can print you out and create a shrine to you (hint

Primitive cultures like my family believe that 3D scanning steals the essence of a person which is why we do not allow binocular vision in my home. The Eora 3D scanner, however, is allowed because it

3D printers are at a bit of a crossroads – after a lot of initial promise, they seem to have hit a roadblock between early adopter zeal and general consumer interest. A new entrant called Flux shoul

What's a 3D scanner for? More than just providing source material for 3D printers, reckons Fuel3D, an Oxford University spin-out that last year Kickstarted a consumer-grade, high-resolution handheld 3

The future, as they say, is already here, but it's just not very evenly distributed. To wit: the Zeus, a 3D printer that can scan and copy objects and, using the Internet, "fax" objects to other print

After raising $300,000 on Kickstarter, the Fuel3D high res scanner has further added to that war chest for developing its tech and getting it to market -- snagging $2.6 million in early stage financin

The folks at Boulder/San Francisco-based <a target="_blank" href="http://www.occipital.com">Occipital</a> are very much software people -- the company's RedLaser app was a big hit in the early App Sto

Meet AIO Robotics' Zeus "3D copy device": a 3D printer, 3D scanner and 3D object faxing machine that's blasted past its $100,000 Kickstarter funding goal after about a day on the crowdfunding trail. T

FABtotum is an all-in-one 3D printer, cutting, milling and engraving box of tricks which supports additive and subtractive manufacturing processes so you can both print and cut to create design protot

The Fuel3D is a handheld, high resolution 3D scanner, which captures photos of real-world objects/subjects and turns them into a 3D model with accurate geometry and colour. With 3D printers taking off

The Photon 3D scanner is a self-contained laser scanner that creates point clouds of real objects, allowing you, in turn, to create printable files of things you build or need to copy. It is $399 on <

The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.phonescope3d.com/">PhoneScope 3D</a> offers high-resolution magnified 3D scanning that can have applications for users ranging from forensics specialists to CGI