Back in August we featured the eora 3D smartphone 3D scanner that was preparing to launch its crowdfunding campaign via Kickstarter. This week the campaign has launched and already blasted past ...

Fingerprint scanners have made life a little bit easier for smartphone users. Premium smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung use them to cut down the time of having to enter your pin every time ...

Just how smart is your smartphone? Smart enough to power a 3D scanner. So goes the thinking behind Eora 3D, a laser scanner that uses your phone as the brains.

Following on from its unveiling back in September of this year, Smart3D has now launched their Pixelio smartphone 3D scanner on the Kickstarter crowdfunding website with the aim of raising £ ...

The smartphone powers the scanner and allows it to capture physical objects and surfaces, turning them into high-quality 3D models.

It seems like just a year or two ago that 3D printing was a brand new idea known only to those keeping a watchful eye on innovative tech for the future. Nonetheless, that technology has quickly ...

Imagine one day being able to scan an object with your smartphone and then sending that scan to a 3D printer where it could be printed out. Researchers at Caltech are working on this today.

Researchers at ETH Zurich have created an app that allows an ordinary smartphone to capture and display three-dimensional models of real-world objects, for subsequent finessing or even 3D printing.

Virtual facebow records created with a smartphone 3D scanner may serve as a reliable alternative to conventional facebows, according to a clinical study published in the Journal of Prosthetic ...

Apps News: Scientists have developed an app that allows an ordinary smartphone to capture and display 3D models of real-world objects.

Scientists from the Computer Vision and Geometry Lab of ETH Zurich developed an app that turns an ordinary smartphone into a mobile 3D scanner. Instead of taking a normal photograph, a user simply ...