3D printing piracy: ‘finally you can get exactly what you want’

In the future, any new product designs will be instantly copied, 3D scanned, and re-sold as 3D printing instructions, meaning that anyone will be able to own just about anything, almost for free.

Watch the Disney Infinity figures wiggle in 3D

Disney tends to add 3D to a lot of its films, so showing the recently unveiled Disney Infinity figures in 3D seems only natural, right? Check out this small gallery of wiggle pictures taken with a Nintendo 3DS.

See The Art of Journey with the game’s artwork, score, and augmented reality

The Art of Journey will provide owners with tons of unseen art, the full musical score, and augmented reality from the acclaimed PSN title

Cloud CAD upstart Sunglass announces API integration with CAD tools, cloud storage

Continuing its efforts to bring computer-automated design (CAD) to the cloud, Sunglass is today announcing integration with four popular CAD tools, as well as cloud storage services, using its new API.

The company is integrating with SolidWorks, SketchUp, Processing, and …

Google sends out invites to show off the “next dimension” of Google Maps

While Apple is reportedly planning to unveil gorgeous new 3D maps in iOS 6, Google also has something up its sleeve.

The company sent out invites this morning for a June 6th event where it will show off “the next …

Welcome to Yogurtistan, a 3D shopping universe inside Facebook

The popularity of open-ended 3D worlds peaked with Second Life around 2007. But for e-commerce companies, the dream of virtually replicating the experience of going to a mall lives on.

Yogurtistan is a 3D world aimed at simulating real-world retail …

YouTube starts automatically converting 1080p videos into 3D

It turns out that 3D technology is being used for more than just an excuse to re-release old Star Wars movies on the big screen.

Today, YouTube announced that it’s rolling out a new feature that automatically converts all 1080p-quality …

Myspace reinvents itself as an “entertainment experience,” with help from Panasonic and Justin Timberlake

Panasonic’s big bet in 2012 is a social network that has been steadily losing cachet since 2008: Myspace.

Panasonic trotted out Justin Timberlake at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today to try and bring sexy back to the …

Design and print 3D objects from your iPhone with a new app from Sculpteo

3D printing service Sculpteo today announced a new iPhone app that you can use to design 3D objects, upload your designs to the cloud, and receive a ceramic object in the mail a few days later.

The designs are based …

Demo: Practical augmented reality hits the iPad and smartphones with Aurasma

Most “augmented reality” demonstrations fall somewhere between merely fun and completely useless: Adding 3-D animations to advertisments, playing cards and the like.

Aurasma is an augmented reality application that has much more practical uses, such as adding video to printed …

German electronics titan Bosch invests in new 3D gesture control chip

Robert Bosch Venture Capital, the investment arm of electronics and technology company Bosch, has invested in Ident Technology AG, a small German company in the mobile and gesture-control space.

The investment was made specifically to further Ident’s development and production …

Updated: Amazon flags Nintendo 3DS for inventory issues

[Update: Amazon has responded to VentureBeat.]

Online retailer Amazon.com has flagged the Nintendo 3DS and placed the handheld gaming console under review until further notice, according to the device’s page on the site.

Handheld devices are a huge part of …