Lego is finally on its way to making its iconic toy bricks more sustainable. The toymaker unveiled this week a prototype brick made entirely of recycled plastic — but it's not yet available in stores.

Since its founding in 2013, The Ocean Cleanup has carried out extensive research and simulations, embarked on several large-scale plastic-reconnaissance expeditions, and learned from prototype-testing ...

A critical phase during product design and development is verification of your design. Design verification can be attained either by simulation or prototyping. Prototyping is usually the preferred ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Lego has ...

create the object can be costly and time-consuming. So, it wasn’t all that far-fetched for Lantz, president of A. Rifkin Co., such as computer-aided design, or CAD, models. He’s taking it a step ...

The ZBuilder Ultra makes high-end functional plastic prototypes. The unit is said to rival injection molding’s accuracy, material properties, detail, and surface finish. The ZBuilder Ultra makes ...

Melker of Sweden's new Värmdö kayak. Prototypes are how companies measure if a new product will sink or swim. At Melker of Sweden, a sport kayak maker, they take this product development stage quite ...

These prototypes serve as invaluable assets for design verification and testing before full-scale production. Industries like aerospace, automotive, and medical, among others, leverage CNC machining ...

In my previous article, I covered some of the environmental implications of 3D printing. Another challenge is the proliferation of plastic prototypes that can begin to clutter up the office, the ...

ONE plastic model is worth 40 lb of blueprints and 40 hr of the explaining that goes along with the prints, according to engineers who have worked with the new plastic "toys" which can serve as ...

A design aid from Proto Labs called the “Protogami” consists of six tetrahedra, each of which holds four flat black triangles made from a particular resin. Balancing the conflicting demands of design ...

The advent of 3D printing completely revolutionized the prototyping stage of designing a new product. But while turnaround times for revisions or changes are now much faster with a 3D printer, they ...