I'm laughing my butt off. I asked ChatGPT to make me into an action figure so I could ride the wave of the viral AI trend, and wow, did it deliver. It turned me into a rock star figurine in skin-tight ...

To create functional press brake tools, prioritizing wall thickness over infill can be more effective. Thicker walls offer ...

Researchers developed a 3D printer that can automatically determine the printing parameters of an unknown material. This could help engineers use emerging renewable or recycled materials that have ...

Ever wanted to be a superhero? Now you can be…or at least, you can have your own action figure (which is the next best thing, really). It all goes back to a company known as doob. doob allows you to ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Every kid who ever made their G.I. Joes fight their Power Rangers action figures has wanted a figure of themselves in on the battle. Well, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, Hasbro can make ...

CES 2023 is an endless sea of new gadgets, but one of the coolest we’ve seen so far is actually Hasbro and Formlabs’ 3D action figure printing service, where you can 3D scan your face onto a licensed ...

OpenAI has launched "AI Action Portrait images" within ChatGPT, enabling users to transform photos into stylized, superhero-like 3D action figures. Similar to Google's viral Nano Banana, this new ...

A mark of a good 3D print — and a good 3D printer — is interlayer adhesion. If the layers of a 3D print are too far apart, you get a weak print that doesn’t look good. This print has no interlayer ...

A new AI trend called Nano Banana is going viral. It uses Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Image tool. This tool transforms photos into 3D figurines. Users can create miniatures of anything. The tool is free ...

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