ASME Technology Awards

2018 Emerging Technology Awards

Quenching an Enormous Thirst

Largest Wind Turbine Ever

Printed Parts for a Lighter Flight

Teacher for Children with Autism

Wearable Holographic Computer

https://www.asme.org/about-asme/mechanical-engineering-magazine/2018-emerging-technology-awards

2017 Awards

https://www.asme.org/about-asme/mechanical-engineering-magazine/me-magazine-awards


2016
Top 6 Innovations
in 3D Printing


1) The Printing Welder





2) Speed Printing
. Carbon3D’s “Continuous Liquid Interface Production” approach creates monolithic forms out a pool of polymer. And it happens to be 25 to 100 times faster than other printers on the market, with the potential, to be 1000 times faster.



3) Powerful Personal Applications
The world of biomedicine is where 3D printing technology has the greatest potential to significantly alter people’s lives for the better.

4) Prints in Space
The innovation of a new, primarily 3D printed, reusable rocket is exponentially delivering new opportunities in space travel, mining, and colonization.

5) On the Cheap
 XYZ  CEO, Simon Shen has  plans to deliver 3D printers to every school in China.

6) Phone Printer
Jeng-Ywan Jeng, a professor of mechanical engineering and the dean of the engineering department at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, has invented a printer that uses light from a cell phone to polymerize liquid resin.  Jeng’s dream is to have the phone make the scan and then use its light in the tiny printer to print the end product.
https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/manufacturing-design/top-6-innovations-3d-printing

Adidas - 3D Printing of Shoes & Shoe Parts

2018

Adidas introducing shoes with midsoles made by 3D printing.

Adidas makes 400 million pairs.
Adidas's popular Boost cushioning shoe franchise was introduced in 2013 with 100,000 pairs made in the first year. The Boost shoe line has expanded to over 50 million pairs a year.

Adidas is planning to produce and sell by the end of 2018, 100,000 pairs of shoes with plastic midsoles made via a new 3D technology created by Silicon Valley startup Carbon. It is foressing potential to increase production to millions in the coming years.

It introduced, Futurecraft 4D — the first commercial release of new 3D shoes, at $300 a in select stores in New York and they were sold out in January. Potential demand were these shows can be cofirmed by the healthy premium at which they have  been resold at sneaker auction site StockX.

How Adidas Plans To Bring 3D Printing To The Masses
May 22, 2018
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andriacheng/2018/05/22/with-adidas-3d-printing-may-finally-see-its-mass-retail-potential/

Midsoles of Shoes - Adidas - Carbon 3D collaboration

To 3D print innovative lattice structures, adidas partnered with Carbon to develop a midsole that met the performance and comfort required by serious runners.

https://www.carbon3d.com/white-papers/carbon-lattice-innovation-the-adidas-story/