Dreambox is a vending machine with a built-in 3D printer

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Detailed on the official Dreambox site, the first 3D printer installed within a vending machine will roll out on the UC Berkeley campus later this month. Since owning a 3D printer is still extremely cost prohibitive for the majority of Americans, the Dreambox gives anyone access to 3D printing technology. Users can connect to the Dreambox site, upload the design of a 3D model and complete the payment process in order to put their design in the project queue. After the item has been completed by the 3D printer, it’s deposited within a storage unit and a text message is sent to the person that placed the order.

The three creators of the Dreambox, David Pastewka, Ricard Berwick and Will Drevno, came up with the idea after noticing the lack of 3D printers on their campus. The 3D printers that were available to the students also came with wait times that could last up to a month.

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3D Printing Coming to Vending Machine Near You

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If vending machines can dispense beer, pizza and movies, why not 3D-printed objects?

Combining the hyper-local convenience of Redbox with cutting edge technology, Dreambox is a vending machine that aims to fuel the 3D-printing revolution from the bottom up.

Dreambox was created by co-founders David Pastewka, Ricard Berwick and Will Drevno, who all met in a mobile application development class and competition at the University of California, Berkeley. Frustrated by their lack of accessible, on-campus 3D printing options and the two- to four-week lead time for online 3D printing services, the trio came up with the idea for a more ubiquitous option.

“Having an item 3D printed with a Dreambox is as simple as uploading or choosing a design online, clicking the ‘Print’ button and retrieving the item once it’s ready,” the group states in its press kit.

Users can also upload designs via a USB stick at the machine. If they don’t have their own 3D models, customers can select one from a catalog of designs or use one of the many apps that help customize a model. Once an item is selected for printing, it’s sent to the nearest Dreambox and added to the queue.

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25 Awesome Steampunk Artworks

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Basically, steampunk artworks can be described as a fusion of tech and fantasy. Often resembling science fiction models, steampunk art concepts combine scientific and technological advancements with fantasy, most of the time resulting in artwork depicting ultra modern industrial machinery.

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Google 2012: The Machines Are Getting Smarter

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Google was full of surprises in 2012. It outdid Apple easily in mobile OS features. It rolled out a whole line of Nexus Android devices that are undeniably top notch. And it launched the Knowledge Graph, a watershed moment between the keyword-searching past of the Web and a future Web that understands whole concepts.

2012 was also the year that Google unified its offerings under a single privacy policy, a move that freaked out lots of people, but which was totally rational from Google's perspective. If we're going to have a data-driven future offering pervasive, free technologies in exchange for better targeting of advertisements, we'll have to accept that companies like Google have an eerily accurate, real-time profile of us.

As if to hammer that point home, Google hired futurist and Singularitarian Ray Kurzweil right before the Holiday break. Looking back at 2012, it looks like Google's brave new world is almost upon us.

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30+ Epic Engine Design

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Engine Design, we all rely on it, but we don’t always realize it, or see it! Hidden beneath the hood of your car (and many other things like boats, planes, trains, etc.) hides a magnificent engineering marvel known as the engine! We don’t really put much thought into what we rely on to survive but maybe we should! As Designers & Engineers it is important to know how it works if you want to build a better version and make the future better with that product for everyone. It is important to learn the history of such things, and find out how it works because someone else may not have done that and continued with an inferior design and thus held society back.

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The Rube Goldberg Machine That Defies the Laws of Physics

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Taking the Rube Goldberg to a whole new dimension, the wizards (assuming magic plays a big part in this) at 2D House have created this complex chain reaction that seemingly ignores and laughs at the laws of the universe that govern our daily existence.

Balls that roll uphill? Ladder climbing blocks? It boggles the mind, until you get to the end and realize that magnets and optical illusions play a big part in why this Rube Goldberg video is all kinds of awesome.

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The future of the internet is intelligent machines

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Thanks to the internet, almost anything consumers might want is just a click away. But for businesses, the gains have been much less dramatic. That is about to change, with the arrival of the Imdustrial Internet.

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The Most Amazing Rube Goldberg Machine Of All Time

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Does it still count as a “machine” if it contains the bodies of dozens of the world's most famous extreme athletes? Better question: Who cares?

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30 Beautifully Designed Motorcycles

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Motorcycle design is very beautiful and can serve as great inspiration regardless your niche. The amount of shapes and curves this man-made marvel has is absolutely stunning. You think they would run out of ideas by now right? Wrong. Motorcycle and motorbike designers are constantly pushing the limits to create symbolistic designs that speak for themselves.

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Behold The High-Tech Future Of Vending Machines

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Vending machine revenue plunged to a 10-year low coming out of the recession, but don't worry, they've got a plan.

The industry is investing in high-tech, millenial-friendly machines to win new customers according to Automatic Mercandiser.

Here's what a futuristic vending machines looks like (from a press release):

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10 Robots with Very Specific Tasks

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What do we want robots to do for us? The field of robotics is making great leaps in robot abilities, but these abilities come one at a time. We won’t have Rosie from The Jetsons until the various specific tasks are combined into one machine. When that happens, they will take over. But until then, you’ll have to choose the purpose of your robot, and hope it can do that specific task well. Here are some of the most recently-unveiled robots and what they can do.

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10 incredible LEGO machines that really work

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In our opinion, LEGO is the greatest toy ever made. If you have the skills, you can turn simple LEGO bricks into just about anything you can imagine. As a kid, I used LEGO pieces to make other toys. As an adult, all I want LEGO to do is open beers for me and file my taxes. I've got the first part nailed down, but I'm still working on second.

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How to Turn Your RSS Reader Into a Topic Generation Machine

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Whenever people ask me how to generate topic ideas for a blog, I always suggest a few different resources. These resources generally include question and answer sites like Quora, top blogs in your niche or industry, forums, and so forth. Having that many topic sources can be a great thing, until you have to actively visit each of them to see what is new. In this post, we’re going to look at how you can combine them all in your RSS reader and turn it into a topic generating machine.

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Pictures: A Rare Look Inside China's Energy Machine

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China's energy use, production, and ambitions are best captured by superlatives: The country is the world's largest energy consumer, and leading source of greenhouse gas emissions.

To power its tremendous economic growth, China has called on every fuel, every technology. It is the largest producer of coal and its greatest consumer, and yet China has more nuclear reactors under construction than any other nation. Its growing appetite for oil has kept gasoline prices high around the globe. And yet China's commitment to wind and solar power is so outsized that its young industries are now among the largest in the world.

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Bizarre Things You Can Buy From Vending Machines Around The Globe

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There are some strange (and questionable) things being offered up in vending machines to willing costumers. How many of these things would you try, and also will you document it when you do?

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The 10 Coolest Real-Life Robots

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We all dream of (and fear) a future ran by machines that can manage our dirty chores, construct buildings, and fight our wars. Truth is we're probably a few centuries away from living the futuristic realm of Deep Space Nine, or better yet, the Jetsons. But recent breakthroughs in the robotics field over the past couple decades have shown us that we're not that far off from sparing with lifelike Rock'em Sock'em robots like Hugh Jackman in his new film: Real Steel...

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Researchers hack e-voting machine, similar to 2012 Election Day machines

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A group of American computer science and security experts have performed a hack on an e-voting machine similar to ones which will be used on Election Day in 2012.

Voting machines that could be used by up to a quarter of the US electorate on Election Day next year can be hacked, says a group of computer science and security experts at the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. In fact, they’re not only saying it. They’ve done it.

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Top 10 Machines in the Outer Space

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If it wasn’t for the billions of dollars we spend on machines, man would never be able to reach the moon and would never even have the right to dream about Mars.

As a standard procedure, we always send machines first to bring back data to earth about whatever strange land we want to study. Through the years, some of these machines have become as popular as the people who rode them.

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Creativity? Train Your Brain to be an Idea-Generating machine

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It seemed so easy at first, didn’t it?
Your blog posts came fast and furious. You were excited and inspired. The words came easily.
Then one day you went to your creative well and it was dry—not damp, mind you, but Sahara Desert dry.
As a survivor of the “dry well syndrome,” I can tell you that that this happens to all of us at some point. But it’s not you, it’s your brain.

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Apple Files A Patent To Turn The iPhone Into A Karaoke Machine That Helps You Find Perfect Pitch

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Working on your perfect pitch? You may not have to look further than your iPhone or iPad.
Apple filed a patent that will turn its mobile devices into karaoke machines, the Telegraph reports.
It can also be used to help singers train their voices.
The iPod will evaluate a person's singing, amplifying their efforts with "a concert hall effect" when they are on hitting the right notes, while exaggerating off-pitch notes.

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