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‘Game changer’ partnership with Seattle Center could help struggling Pacific Science Center thrive

GeekWire

GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) The city-owned Seattle Center and the Pacific Science Center have formed a first-of-its-kind partnership that will help support the nonprofit while creating a more vibrant connection between the venues. The exhibit would dramatically expand the current makerspace, growing it into a 14,000-square-foot feature.

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Can we 3D print a better face mask?

Vox

How 3D printing can help mitigate PPE supply shortages in future pandemics. As the country waited for US manufacturers to scale up PPE production and for supply chains to stabilize, a fascinating stopgap solution emerged: 3D printing. That’s where 3D printing came in. Christina Animashaun/Vox. The Wild West of PPE”.

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Parkinson’s meds are hard to grab, so TikTok users crowdsourced a solution

The Verge

He started sketching designs for a 3D-printable bottle that would remove the need to dig for an individual pill. Alldridge has graphic design experience, but he had never tried making a 3D-printable object before. But the 3D printmakers of TikTok had already latched on to the idea. Illustration by Brian Alldridge. And it didn’t.

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X-ray vision in the warehouse: ThruWave raises $6.4M to help online retailers see through packages

GeekWire

ThruWave’s sensors mount alongside conveyor belts and make 3D images of the items inside via antennas and what the company calls “compressive sensing.” ThruWave is also working with In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit investor for U.S. government agencies, to use its packing screening technology for national security applications.

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Paul Allen estate sells remaining Living Computers artifacts and systems to museum near Atlanta

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The nonprofit closed in 2020 just before the pandemic and never reopened. The nonprofit institution was started by Lonnie Mimms , a commercial real estate developer and longtime collector of computing artifacts. “We Living Computers: Museum + Labs on First Avenue South in Seattle opened in 2012. CMoA is located in Roswell, Ga.,

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Microsoft unveils Mesh, betting on mixed reality for gatherings and collaboration across platforms

GeekWire

Announced at Microsoft’s virtual Ignite conference, Mesh promises to let people use headsets, computers and handheld devices to connect in virtual, 3D spaces, represented by both animated and photorealistic avatars. Telemedicine in Microsoft Mesh. Microsoft Photo).

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Virginia Announces Research Commercialization Awards

CTOvision

SoundPipe LLC (Charlottesville), Patient Tailored 3D Drug Delivery with Intravascular Ultrasound , Dr. Joseph Kilroy, $50,000, Life Sciences. Since 1985, CIT, a nonprofit corporation, has been a driver of innovation and entrepreneurship. About the Center for Innovative Technology, www.cit.org.

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