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When you look into the future, what do you see? Super smart technologies, robotics, smart living and most certainly – 3D printing. Our kids will live in a completely new world, so our job is to make their transition as smooth as possible. We have talked extensively about the ways that 3D printing is changing the world, leaving no spheres of life untouched – education and children’s market being no exception. What potential does 3D...

Don’t we all love a good look? Adding a classy touch to your personality with custom made pieces of jewellery or translating your own ideas into fabulous jewellery designs is no longer the case of being extra rich. Extra rich in creativity is all you need to be – 3D printing will do the rest. Haven’t got a single clue what we’re on about? Here are some of the earth-shattering, inspirational ideas we collected. [We...

Someone recently said that we live in a world of smart phones and dumb people. Pessimistic, isn’t it? But let’s take a step back and rephrase the statement - we live in a world of smart technologies and even smarter people who are brave and creative to use the new technologies in a proper way! To show you that there’s no magic between technology and idea, CGTrader teamed up with Shapeways to materialise some of...

Look, it's a Superman! No, it's a bird! No, it's a plane! Planes are something that always attracts people attention, as it is always fascinating to see a huge steel machine flying. Since the period of Renaissance and incredible inventions of Leonardo da Vinci, people tried to find out how they could fly. You know the rest - The Wright Brothers, their experiments, the beginning of the aviation and it went just in a snap....

CGTrader designers are so talented, that buyers sometimes think their models are real. A car for 119 USD? A pair of shoes for 30 USD? No wonder the customers sometimes get confused with these amazing, photorealistic 3D models available for sale. And yet, 3D models are actually becoming real. 3D printing can turn many digital 3D models to real, physical products. This technology is becoming a viable alternative to factories and production lines, changing the...

After freezing cold winter finally came long waited spring. Just several steps separate us from the summertime all of us are dreaming about. Summer season for some of us means laying at the beach on the seaside, for others – riding a bike to work, going to the village for a rest, gathering berries in the forest, travelling abroad: climbing the mountains or maybe visiting exotic places. Unfortunately, those several steps are still separating us...

It is expected that 3D printing will explode in 2014. A few key patents are going to expire this year. It will provide ability to use the materials which had not been available for use freely for 3D printing. That will create broader possibilities to use 3D printing to manufacture parts for final products introduced to the market. In other words, new 3D printing opportunities will provide a possibility to use more materials for production....

There is Meme 3D Printing Challenge going on CGTrader right now. That is right, we invited 3D designers to turn memes into 3D printable items. While a challenge is taking place, we surfed the net to collect some of the best examples of 3D printable memes. As there are more than 2 weeks left till the end of the challenge, we have selected 10 3D printable models which are good examples of internet memes turned...

„We may never look at socks the same way again“ – this sentence was written in one of the websites and it is not hard to guess what it was about. This week was a start of social media campaign „Cock in the sock“, which was intended to raise awareness for testicular cancer. There are about 25 000 posts with #cockinthesock hashtag on Instagram, thousands of Facebook posts and tweets with photos of men supporting...

CGTrader is back with a new feature, once again. Bitcoin payments are here! Have you heard about this digital currency which is a part of payment revolution happening online? It is taking part on CGTrader as well. So, the members of our community can take advantage and use this immediate way to pay for their purchases or to get payments for their 3D models. We encourage buyers to try this payment possibility and pay lower...