A German startup has launched a service called MyMelade that manufactures customized marmalade. Food customization services like MyMelade, YouBars, or MixMyGranola are certainly cool, but it seems like it would make more sense to develop retail solutions if they want to go mainstream.
ZCorp has released a new composite material “zp150″ which increases the functional strength of their parts by 40% as well as improving color and removing the need for a chemical curing process. This is a big deal for ZCorp since the only real weakness in their printer line is the strength of materials. I haven’t played with the new part material yet, but this could make ZCorp 3D printers competitive with Stratasys and 3D Systems machines in the durable part market.
Ponoko has opened up a US headquarters in San Francisco making it possible to ship orders faster and less expensively.
Roque is a jewelry company that allows you to preview jewelry using augmented reality technology. It is a cute feature, but is somewhat limited to the “chunky” jewelry style they sell. It would probably be tough to get a Tiffany style setting to look right.
Holition is the company powering Roque and the demo video on their site shows the technology being used to greater effect with wrist watches. The renderings are very nice and move smoothly. This could be huge if Swatch ever wanted to make a comeback. The challenge is to hide the wristband that allows the rendering to be overlaid. Notice the black watch band under the projection of the silver watch in the picture above.
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