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South by Southwest Interactive is the technology-driven part of the annual Austin-based festival for digital, film and music and it starts on Friday. An expected 30,000 people will take part in the interactive and film week that precedes music, and they love it for the spontaneity and the chaos. They also hate it because of the chaos — parties on every corner, marketing handouts at every turn and a sprawling program of panels, screenings and speakers that span at least a dozen city blocks in the heart of Texas. Even Hugh Forrest, the director of the interactive portion of the fest, says he wishes he had some sort of predictive computing personal assistant to help him make sense of the startup-saturated ideas festival where the lineup includes Edward Snowden, Neil deGrasse Tyson and a repeat appearance by Internet-famous Grumpy Cat. Before I and my tech reporting counterpart, Laura Sydell, head down to Austin again, I spoke with Forrest for a preview of the sprawling festival ...

Some people like to bet on horses. Others wager on football games. And while there may not be any money in picking the next Nobel Prize winner, that's no reason not to have a little fun trying. On Monday Oct. 6, a scientist or two, or maybe even three, will get called from Sweden with good news about the  Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine . Who will it be? Some folks at Thomson Reuters  have some ideas . They've essentially pored over the footnotes in scientific papers to figure out whose work has been referenced the most often in influential journals. The analysis was a little bit more complicated than that. They crunched the numbers in databases of citations to figure out how many times possible winners got their papers cited. They also compared that number with how many times average scientists in the field got their papers cited. The analysts, working in Thomson Reuters' intellectual property and science unit, went beyond these numbers: They handicapped ...

The Pez dispenser is a cultural icon that has withstood the test of time, with Mickey Mouse, Yoda, even George Washington doling out little candy bricks through their plastic necks. So applying the hot new technology of 3-D printing to make personalized Pez dispensers makes sense, in a weird way. It's just one of a growing number of efforts under way to print customized food products. When Matt Compeau and Bi-Ying Mao founded the small Toronto jewelry company Hot Pop Factory last year, they were already familiar with 3-D printing, thanks to their backgrounds in architecture — a field where the technology is frequently used to build prototypes. Compeau says that when they bought their own printer as a creative outlet, they realized "that the technology didn't really need to be relegated to making prototypes, but that you could actually make products with it." So when an architecture firm was looking for a novel holiday gift to give to all of its employees, ...

If you haven't caught up, Flipboard is a new iPad app that has the geek crowd raving. Michele Norris spoke to Flipboard CEO Mike McCue. The app brings the beauty of print, as McCue puts it, to the social content of the Web. McCue, a Silicon Valley veteran, was one of the founders of Tellme, a company that specializes in voice-based programs like the ones used for directory assistance services. The company was sold to Microsoft for $800 million. Now, he has great expectations for his "social magazine." And he talks a little a bit about the business model for Flipboard, which, he says, will likely look a lot like that of an old school business — the publishing world. Listen to the whole interview above. This, by the way, is the first in a series of conversations with tech CEOs. Who would you like to hear from next?

A surgical team at Swansea's Morriston Hospital has created a technique to reconstruct jaws affected by cancer using 3D printing, said to be one of the first of its kind in the world. The method uses 3D printed titanium implants that are anatomically specific to the patient. Store worker Debbie Hawkins from Swansea was the first patient to have the "amazing" procedure. Surgeons rebuilt a section of her jawbone after she developed a tumour. The technique combines traditional bone grafts with 3D printed titanium implants that can be created to fit an individual patient's anatomy. Ms Hawkins said: "When they told me what the procedure involved I was scared at first. I really didn't know what to expect. But what they have done, and the aftercare I have received, has been absolutely amazing". She was in hospital for just two weeks after her operation in August last year, which also used 3D technology to plan the operation in advance. She was able to ...

Scientists in Germany have successfully 3D-printed transparent glass. Dr Bastian Rapp and his team from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology spent two and half years developing the method. They hope to print anything from photographic lenses and fibre optics to glass structures for buildings and rooftops for cars.

A surgical team at Swansea's Morriston Hospital has created a technique to reconstruct jaws affected by cancer using 3D printing, said to be one of the first of its kind in the world. The method uses 3D printed titanium implants that are anatomically specific to the patient. Store worker Debbie Hawkins from Swansea was the first patient to have the "amazing" procedure. Surgeons rebuilt a section of her jawbone after she developed a tumour. The technique combines traditional bone grafts with 3D printed titanium implants that can be created to fit an individual patient's anatomy. Ms Hawkins said: "When they told me what the procedure involved I was scared at first. I really didn't know what to expect. But what they have done, and the aftercare I have received, has been absolutely amazing". She was in hospital for just two weeks after her operation in August last year, which also used 3D technology to plan the operation in advance. She was able to...

A German magazine has made international headlines by saying it printed an issue with the blood of HIV-positive people. The lifestyle German magazine Vangardist printed the issue to coincide with the famous Life Ball in Vienna that raises money for HIV/AIDS issues, according to Jason Romeyko, creative director of Saatchi and Saatchi, who worked with the team at Vangardist to develop the idea. Romeyko said the goal was to confront the readers' stigma about the disease and to get people to talk about it again, adding that people rarely seem to talk about it anymore -- except perhaps on World AIDS Day. "People feel that the problem is solved and feel nothing is happening," Romeyko told ABC News. To create the "HIV+" issue, the editorial team used the blood of three HIV-positive volunteers, Romeyko said, adding that the goal was to find people who represented a range of HIV-positive people. The donors included a single mother who contracted the disease f...

Earlier this year, 18-year-old Makalaya Zanders said someone she knew commented that an African print dress, "wasn't really something you wear to prom." Afterwards, Zanders became determined to disprove the idea and show off her style. The Ohio teen went to her high school's prom on May 13 in a royal blue, fishtail gown made from Ankara fabric featuring colorful African tribal patterns. "My dress was to make a point," Zanders wrote on Instagram. "That African style is beautiful. That I am comfortable with my Melanin and roots. And finally, that there's nothing like Black girl Magic." Photos of the dress posted to Zanders' Instagram have since gone viral on social media, garnering thousands of likes, shares and positive comments. Meet the Nigerian Artist Behind the Yoruba Body Art in Beyonce's 'Lemonade' 5 Empowering Quotes From BET's 'Black Girls Rock' Honorees Twitter Hastag #BlackOutDay Celebrates Bla...

A Florida woman who purchased a $43.50 lithograph print of a dog at a Goodwill store is now auctioning off the painting for charity after learning it could be worth thousands of dollars. Maureen Flaherty, of Summerfield, Florida, was paying for items she purchased at the grand opening of a local Goodwill store on March 19 when a lithograph print of a dog caught her eye. "I looked over my shoulder and saw it up on the wall and asked the cashier if I could get still get that,” Flaherty, 49, told ABC News. "She and another cashier went and got it down from the wall for me.” The artwork was priced at $43.50 and Flaherty says she rounded up the total to $44 as a donation to Goodwill. When Flaherty walked out of the store carrying the 39 1/2 by 29 1/2 inch print, she says she was stopped by a local antiques dealer who told her, “You just walked out with the most valuable thing in there." The dealer, identified by Flaherty as Jess Sturtevant of Braden River Antique...

MICHIGAN CENTER, Mich. -- A 19-year-old Michigan man who was previously in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s tallest teenager has finally found an affordable pair of shoes to fit his size-28 feet, thanks to a 3-D printer. Broc Brown, who is 7 feet 8 inches tall, has Sotos Syndrome, also known as cerebral gigantism, which affects about one in every 15,000 people, the Jackson Citizen Patriot reported. Brown’s aunt, Stacy Snyder, said that along with abnormal size, Sotos causes Brown to have chronic back and knee pain, along with other ailments. Snyder said no one is sure when he will stop growing. “I can walk in a store and walk out with five pairs of shoes if I want to,” she said. “He can’t.” California-based Feetz stepped in to help. The shoe company uses an app to convert photos of someone’s feet into a 3-D model, which can be measured to create custom-fit shoes manufactured by a 3-D printer. Feetz CEO Lucy Beard delivered a pair of black and red shoes to...

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If you haven't caught up, Flipboard is a new iPad app that has the geek crowd raving. Michele Norris spoke to Flipboard CEO Mike McCue. The app brings the beauty of print, as McCue puts it, to the social content of the Web. McCue, a Silicon Valley veteran, was one of the founders of Tellme, a company that specializes in voice-based programs like the ones used for directory assistance services. The company was sold to Microsoft for $800 million. Now, he has great expectations for his "social magazine." And he talks a little a bit about the business model for Flipboard, which, he says, will likely look a lot like that of an old school business — the publishing world. Listen to the whole interview above. This, by the way, is the first in a series of conversations with tech CEOs. Who would you like to hear from next?

This week, a 3-D printer fabricated a part for itself. Normally, that wouldn't make headlines — except that it happened in space. "It's a history-making moment for us because it's the first time ever that we're talking about transitioning from launching every part we might need in space from Earth, to actually being able to email a file, a design to space and make that part on demand," says Niki Werkheiser, the project manager for the International Space Station 3-D Printer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. NASA astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore, Expedition 42 commander aboard the International Space Station, installed the printer and conducted calibration tests on Nov. 17. The first object, which is actually a side casing for part of the printer, was produced on Nov. 25. Werkheiser says they chose that to print part of the printer itself "to show that if we need replacement parts, or maybe one day in the futur...

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South by Southwest Interactive is the technology-driven part of the annual Austin-based festival for digital, film and music and it starts on Friday. An expected 30,000 people will take part in the interactive and film week that precedes music, and they love it for the spontaneity and the chaos. They also hate it because of the chaos — parties on every corner, marketing handouts at every turn and a sprawling program of panels, screenings and speakers that span at least a dozen city blocks in the heart of Texas. Even Hugh Forrest, the director of the interactive portion of the fest, says he wishes he had some sort of predictive computing personal assistant to help him make sense of the startup-saturated ideas festival where the lineup includes Edward Snowden, Neil deGrasse Tyson and a repeat appearance by Internet-famous Grumpy Cat. Before I and my tech reporting counterpart, Laura Sydell, head down to Austin again, I spoke with Forrest for a preview of the sprawling festival th...

Have you ever wanted to see a woolly mammoth skeleton? How about Amelia Earhart's flight suit (one worn before her fateful last flight, mind you)? To see them in person, you can visit the Smithsonian's Natural History and Postal museums, respectively, in Washington, D.C. But now you can take a closer look — in 3-D — on the Smithsonian website, too. The institution has made 20 digitized objects from among its vast holdings available online to the public for viewing from every possible angle. The Smithsonian gets more than 30 million visitors each year to its 19 museums, Gunter Waibel, the Smithsonian's digitization director who is heading up the X 3D project, tells All Things Considered's Robert Siegel. "That sounds like a really big number, but that also leaves out a lot of people." And with only 1 percent of the institution's 137 million objects actually on display to the public at any given time, even museum visitors barely scratch the surface ...

In a first, the Food and Drug Administration has given approval to a drug that is produced on a 3-D printer. The pill, produced by Aprecia Pharmaceuticals, treats seizures. It's expected to hit the market in the first quarter of 2016. NPR's Rob Stein reports for our Newscast unit: "The drug is called Spritam and is designed to treat seizures in people suffering from epilepsy. It's a new version of a seizure medication that's been on the market for years. "The new tablets are manufactured using 3-D printing, which creates objects by very precisely spewing out one layer of a substance on top of another. 3-D printing is being used to make all sorts of things these days. "The FDA had previously approved medical devices made with 3-D printing. The company that makes Spritam says the 3-D-printed version of the drug allows it to dissolve more quickly, which makes it easier to swallow." Another benefit of the process, says Aprecia, the drug's ...

Ever since the day Garrett Peterson was born, his parents have had to watch him suddenly just stop breathing. "He could go from being totally fine to turning blue sometimes — not even kidding — in 30 seconds," says Garrett's mother, Natalie Peterson, 25, of Layton, Utah. "It was so fast. It was really scary." Garrett was born with a defective windpipe. His condition, known as tracheomalacia, left his trachea so weak the littlest thing makes it collapse, cutting off his ability to breathe. "When he got upset, or even sometimes just with a diaper change, he would turn completely blue," his mother says, "and that was terrifying." So the Petersons contacted Dr. Glenn Green at the University of Michigan, who specializes in conditions like Garrett's. He teamed up with Scott Hollister, a biomedical engineer who runs the university's 3-D Printing Lab, to create a remarkable solution to Garrett's problem — a device that will hol...

This post is part of our Weekly Innovation series, in which we explore an interesting idea, design or product that you may not have heard of yet. Do you have an innovation to share? Use this quick form. It's possible to print an ear, a trachea, or even a cast for your broken arm: Why not a shoe? Or two? If Mary Huang could have it her way, she would digitize her world and make everything around her using a 3-D printer. But for right now, she's sticking to shoes. And she's doing it with a Brooklyn-based "part design label, part lab" company called Continuum that says: "fashion should express how we live our digital lives." Huang designs the look of the shoe and the software that creates it to make it all possible. She says a pair of shoes takes anywhere from 16 to 20 hours to print — that's eight to 10 hours per shoe. The shoes are made mostly from plastic and thermoplastic polyurethane, a rubberlike material. They cost anywhere from $250 ...

Here's something that might sound strange: There are companies now that print and sell DNA. This trend — which uses the term "print" in the sense of making a bunch of copies speedily — is making particular stretches of DNA much cheaper and easier to obtain than ever before. That excites many scientists who are keen to use these tailored strings of genetic instructions to do all sorts of things, ranging from finding new medical treatments to genetically engineering better crops. "So much good can be done," says Austen Heinz, CEO of Cambrian Genomics in San Francisco, one of the companies selling these stretches of DNA. But some of the ways Heinz and others talk about the possible uses of the technology also worries some people who are keeping tabs on the trend. "I have significant concerns," says Marcy Darnovsky, who directs the Center for Genetics and Society, a genetics watchdog group. A number of companies have been taking advantage of ...

A 3-D printer is being credited with helping to save an Ohio baby's life, after doctors "printed" a tube to support a weak airway that caused him to stop breathing. The innovative procedure has allowed Kaiba Gionfriddo, of Youngstown, Ohio, to stay off a ventilator for more than a year. The splint that changed Kaiba's life was implanted in February of 2012, when he was 3 months old. Resembling a vacuum cleaner's hose, with ridges to resist collapse, the splint is made out of bioresorbable plastics that will dissolve within three years, according to the University of Michigan doctors who developed the unique treatment. They wrote about the implant in today's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Drs. Glenn Green and Scott Hollister say that they created the splint after taking a detailed CT scan of the boy's bronchus, the airway leading into his lungs. That assured them of a reliable fit for the device, which they sutured onto Kaiba's le...

From cool casts for a broken arm to impressive replicas of Michelangelo's David, 3-D printing has come a long way in the past few years. In fact, the technology is moving so fast that 3-D printers might be coming to your kitchen this year — or at least, to a bakery or bistro down the street. A company from South Carolina unveiled the first restaurant-grade certified 3-D printer at the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas last week. The countertop device, called the ChefJet, is about the size of a microwave and can churn out chocolate and sugar candies in any geometric shape imaginable. Think hollow honeycombs, rainbow dodecahedrons, interlocking Buckyballs and stitched up globes — all made with sugar infused with mint, sour cherry or vanilla.

Some books are capital-I Important — they were, for example, the first to experiment with narrative in such and such a way, or they documented a time of great change, or some aspect of their authors' race, gender, sexuality or class marked them as a particular cultural milestone. Because we tend to read Important books when they are assigned to us (how many Important books now languish in the formless limbo of 11th grade reading lists?) we approach them differently than others. Important books, we tell ourselves as we steel our spines to dive into their first chapters, have Much to Teach Us. We experience them primarily on that intellectual/analytical/vaguely medicinal level. But you're an adult now, and it's important you acknowledge something that old Mrs. Vagnoni, as she stood up there in front of the class droning on about An American Tragedy, never could or would, namely this: There is Important, and there is Good. And they do not tend to hang out at the same...

The 237th anniversary of Paul Revere's famous midnight ride during the Revolutionary War falls on Wednesday. But long before Henry Wadsworth Longfellow made him famous, Revere was known as an engraver and a silversmith in Boston. Brown University announced this week that it had found a rare engraved print by Revere, one of only five in existence. The print was tucked inside an old medical book that had been donated by physician Solomon Drowne, a member of Brown University's class of 1773. "It was an engraving, not a terribly large one," Richard Noble, Brown University's rare books cataloguer tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz, "and I looked down at the corner and there was a signature, "P. Revere Sculp." And I thought, 'You know, it's just crude enough to be his work.'" Noble did some research online, and found a picture and description of the very same print on the American Antiquarian Society website, pr...

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Simon & Schuster will publish Cody Wilson's story of making guns from a 3-D printer, Negative Liberty: A Gun Printer's Guide to the Apocalypse. Wilson's organization Defense Distributed is famous for publishing designs for 3-D printable guns that anyone can download online. Wilson tells Forbes, "The whole point to me is to add to the hacker mythology and to have a very, very accurate and contentious portrayal of what we think about the current political situation, our attitude and political orientation, a lasting remark." He added, "It won't be a manifesto. But culturally, I hope to leave a couple of zingers ... a touchstone for the young, disaffected radical toward his own political and social development, that kind of thing." Slate features a 1665 "bill of mortality," which lists the deaths in London over a particular week during the Great Plague. ...

Newsweek editor Tina Brown announced Thursday she would embrace a fully digital future as she revealed that the magazine's final print edition would be published at the end of the year. Her announcement was a bow to gravity, as her unique blend of buzz and brio proved incapable of counteracting Newsweek's plummeting circulation and advertising amid an accelerating news cycle. Brown said there would be an unspecified number of layoffs as well. Instead, a new digital publication called "Newsweek Global" would emerge that would be "really focused on a highly mobile, opinion leading and worldwide audience," said Baba Shetty, the new CEO of Newsweek and its sister website, the Daily Beast. He said those elite readers in Belfast, Northern Ireland; Mumbai, India; or San Francisco have more in common than a broad subscriber base in the U.S. But the digital-only play will require significant layoffs from the magazine that's already leaner than it once...