Tag: Advanced Manufacturing

How a Cheap Plastic Film Can Give Your Smartphone a 3-D Screen

  • By Mike Orcutt
  • 04/30/2013

A plastic smartphone screen cover patterned with tiny lenses could help mobile 3-D take off.

Don’t Divorce Design from Manufacturing

  • By Jessica Leber
  • 01/25/2013

The CEO of design software giant Autodesk says advances in computing are lowering manufacturing costs while making products better.

What Yoda Taught Me About 3-D Printing

  • By Jessica Leber
  • 01/07/2013

Inexpensive 3-D printers aimed at consumers are toys, not the factories of the future.

Ghosts in the Machines

Bethlehem Steel, once a symbol of American industry, went bankrupt in 2001. These photos help us imagine its glory days.
Photographs by Jeremy Blakeslee

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Innovators Under 35: India

2012 India TR35

The INDIA TR35 list recognizes outstanding innovators under the age of 35 for their continuing work in India that has the highest impact locally and globally. We highlight innovators in India whose work--spanning medicine, computing, communications, electronics, nanotechnology, and more--is changing our world. See this year's list of winners.

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