It seems like just a year or two ago that 3D printing was a brand new idea known only to those keeping a watchful eye on innovative tech for the future. Nonetheless, that technology has quickly become ...

Smartphone-based 3D scanning app Polycam uses the device’s onboard camera to capture scans of objects like sneakers and figurines to full room interiors—complete with details like furniture and ...

This author might be giving away his age a bit, but remember that Aerosmith music video where a teen-aged Jason London creates a VR scenario in which he's riding a motorcycle based on a toy that he ...

3D scanning aims to capture the geometry of the 3D world. However, most existing solutions require a complicated setup, are often hard to use and might not always work outdoors. Marc Pollefeys, ...

Following on from its unveiling back in September of this year, Smart3D has now launched their Pixelio smartphone 3D scanner on the Kickstarter crowdfunding website with the aim of raising £33,000 to ...

Fingerprint scanners have made life a little bit easier for smartphone users. Premium smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung use them to cut down the time of having to enter your pin every time you ...

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

People that are heavily into 3D printing can get new things to print into their computer for the printer to work on using a 3D scanner. A new 3D scanner has debuted called eora 3D and unlike some ...

There are multiple apps that use the iPhone to perform 3D scanning of objects, but most of them require a LiDAR scanner (distance measuring sensor) and cannot be used on models that do not have a ...

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Virtual facebow records created with a smartphone 3D scanner may serve as a reliable alternative to conventional facebows, according to a clinical study recently published in the Journal of Prosthetic ...

Back in August we featured the eora 3D smartphone 3D scanner that was preparing to launch its crowdfunding campaign via Kickstarter. This week the campaign has launched and already blasted past the ...