When it comes to New Year’s resolutions, there’s one I’ve never had to consider: being organized. By nature, I’ve always been one who believed in “a place for everything and everything in its place.” My wife? Not so much. So our household organization tends to be a bit of a ...

If you’ve been looking for an inexpensive 3D printer, you’ll want to hurry up and take a look over at a Kickstarter project that is wrapping up this week. The printrbot (lowercase spelling is correct) is the creation of Brook Drumm. And while Brook was originally hopeful to get 50 ...

[This post first ran in April, 2007. We re-posted it today just to highlight how far we've come in this short time.] The New York Times has a good article today that does a hands-on test of some 3D scanning and printing technologies. The Lego copies to the right were made ...

Color laser printers have been commonplace in offices for years now. Despite the fact that the price per page cost for laser printers is usually a bargain compared to inkjet printers, a number of factors including initial cost and lower quality photo output has made laser printers in the home ...

I have a bit of a history with personalizing my kids’ rooms, so when Shutterfly offered the chance to try out their new service, which lets you turn one of your family photos into a large, personalized wall decal,  I jumped. The process was simple and took only a couple ...