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IoT is here to stay and expand. Many new utilities with rich functionality can be built that
will revolutionise our lives. Think of driverless cars and an automatically managed traffic
system using IoT sensors, which result in fewer accidents. Truly, in the world of IoT, only
our imagination is our ultimate limit.
3D Printing LATEST TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS
3D Printing or 3-Dimensional Printing is a technology which was
first developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) in the 1980s. It is the process of making a physical
object from a digital design. In this technology, we use the 3D
digital data on the computer to build 3D objects by adding
layers of material which could be polymers, metals, concrete 3D Printing Technology
or even plant and human tissue. 3D Printing helps to bridge the gap between ideas and 11
images on a page or screen and the creation of those ideas/images in the physical
3-Dimensional world.
The major applications of 3D Printing are:
• Education: It is widely used in the education sector. It
prepares the students for their future by allowing them to
create prototypes without tooling and extensive work. It
helps the students to design and produce models they can
hold and feel. 3D Printing in Education
• Rapid Prototyping (RP) Method: It is used to create models to
quickly test a new product before mass production. 3D Printing can
be termed as a RP method.
3D Prototype
• Medicine: In the last several years, 3D Printing applications
have increased manifold in the world of medicine. They range
from bioprinting—where biological materials like cells and growth
factors are fused to create tissue-like structures replicating
their natural equivalents—to medical devices like prosthetics. 3D Printed Equipments
With 3D Printing, prosthetics can be modeled, customised, and
printed at lower cost quickly.

