In 2013, Togolese inventor Afate Gnikou built a 3D printer entirely out of recycled electronic waste. The 34-year-old had become consumed by the idea of creating his own version after seeing a 3D ...

Call him Charlie, Charles, Chuck – whatever you want. It’s all okay with him. Beaming a warm smile from beneath his push-broom mustache, the softly spoken 74-year-old doesn’t strike you as a ...

Around the world, thousands of people who are missing limbs are wearing custom-fitted replacements. In operating theatres, surgeons are using 3D replicas of their patients’ bodies to guide operations.

Hugh Lyman, an 83-year-old retiree from Enumclaw, Washington, won The Desktop Factory Competition with his design for a low-cost, open-source machine capable of turning resin pellets into inexpensive ...