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Is 2025 finally the year of non-planar 3D printing? Maybe it won’t have to be if [Ten Tech] gets his way! Ironing is the act of going over the top surface of your print again with the ...

Since e-ink first hit the market a couple decades back, there’s always murmurs of “that’d be great as a second monitor”— but ...

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The rotary evaporator (rotovap) rarely appears outside of well-provisioned chemistry labs. That means that despite being a ...

These days, most of us have a smartphone. They are so commonplace that we rarely stop to consider how amazing they truly are.

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