Objet to showcase 3D printing

Objet Geometries will showcase its latest advances of 3D printing offering during EuroMold 2010, including its desktop, professional and high-end 3D printing systems, states CAD CAM News.

Furthermore, Objet will hold technology demonstrations for its new materials that feature new mechanical and thermal properties that open the way to advanced applications for a wide array of industries.

Attendees will also be able to watch a live printing process by the award-winning Objet Connex - the only 3D printing solution that prints in a single build process parts and assemblies made of multiple materials with different mechanical and physical properties.

Cinemagoers may one day be recorded for market research using 2D and 3D imaging technology, reveals the Engineer.

Aralia Systems, a specialist security company, is working with machine vision experts from the University of the West of England (UWE) to redevelop imaging technology currently used for detecting criminals making pirate copies of films with video cameras.

Aralia Systems has been awarded a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with UWE's Machine Vision Lab worth in excess of £215 000 to target the technology for market research data collection techniques.

Up to 25% of all digital cameras sold in Australia are believed to be grey imported with online Web sites and unauthorised distributors now selling same brand camera for up to 30% less than what an Australian retailer can sell them for, says ChannelNews.

According to several digital vendors and the CEO of Camera House, Paul Shearer, the situation is set to get worse, due to the parity of the Australian dollar with the US dollar and the refusal by several big brand camera manufacturers, including Nikon, Canon, Panasonic, JVC and Samsung to stop their overseas operations supplying distributors and retailers who are on selling intro the Australian market.

According to Paul Read the director responsible for Panasonic's Consumer Electronics Division the situation is serious.