BalloonVase by OliveBird turns any balloon into a elegant flower vase using an internal frame. Just add balloon and water.

Incredible floral 3D-printed headpieces and jewelry by Collected Edition.

Shapeways Prototype to Product 3D Printing Contest! Chance to win a Formlabs Form 1 3D Printer and Shapeways credit (every entrant gets 10$ credit) and we're one of the Judges!

SOLS! The future of 3D printed insoles... Great interview at CoolHunting with friend of NOTCOT, Kegan Schouwenburg ~ from Design Glut to Shapeways to SOLS!

DYO ~ Customize their selection of jewelry designs which are 3D printed in brass or silver by Shapeways. Above is their Point of Origin Ring by Matter Labs x You.

Pixel Pendant, reminiscent of an Escher creation, little building blocks and intertwining wires work together to complete the symbol of positivity. 3D printed with Shapeways, designed by Lucas Goossens.

The Laser Girls 3D Print Nail Art! And you can even buy your own at Shapeways.

FEATUREDFirst step before ordering 3D prints should be getting Material Sample Kits! Here's a look at the design of the ones from Shapeways. Each kit has a 3D printed safety pin of sorts and samples, with corresponding info cards!

VIDEOWave - A 3D printable toy over at Shapeways that uses principles of physics to transfer liquids allowing for all kinds of fun arrangements.

3D Printed Skull Rings handmade by robots in Brass, Bronze and Stainless Steel by Bits to Atoms

VIDEOInside Shapeways Eindhoven ~ Dezeen takes us on a tour with community manager, Bart Veldhuizen. I love seeing how they compactly pack in as many prints as possible for efficiency...

Shapeways now lets you 3D print in a flexi elasto-plastic!

Design X workshops join ICFF for NY Design Week '13 - with our 3D Printing loving friends from Shapeways and Nervous System, Mode Lab, as well as Skylar Tibbits, and Francis Bitonti... exploring responsive design, physical computing, and more!

Aqueduct - A 3-D printed mini planter system that allows for the creation of unique configurations.

ModiBots! Customizable characters 3D printed over at Shapeways.

VIDEOThe Creators Project visits the 3d-printing service Shapeways in their newest video to talk with CEO Peter Weijmarshausen and various designers about why the concept of 3D printing is revolutionizing the market.

Fantastic cufflinks reminiscent of those famed little animated lamps that Pixar lovers know all too well. Designed by Gabriel Prero.

This 3D printed button not only holds your shirt together, but also holds the cord for your ear buds to keep them in your ears.

Inside Shapeways' Factory of the Future that just opened... see the ribbon cutting with Major Bloomberg, and see 3D prints, machines, and more in the new NY space!

VIDEOShapeways has made a fun video profiling our friends and generative designers, Nervous System - take a peek behind their process, 3D printed jewelry, lighting and more!

Teenage Engineering may be the first company to make CAD files available to 3D print replacement parts.

Level 1 of Super Mario Bros, 3D printed as a mobius strip. Poor Mario, starting and ending at the same place every time.

FEATURED3D Printed Interlocking Cubes ~ one made of cubes and one of dodecahedrons! Mesmerizing desk/fidget toys... see the details and the unboxing of my Shapeways order.

3D printed ceramic rocket espresso cups!

Shapeways Helping Robots Do Graffiti since 2011 with the The International Association for Robots in Architecture

SoundCloud 3-D-Printing prints your favorite
songs into custom iphone cases.

Embrace Stock - Wear stock line chart diagrams on your wrist.

We asked the Shapeways community what they thought Apple's Siri looked like and 3D printed the best design.

VIDEOUpside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film, a beautiful film about a printing workshop in Plymouth by Danny Cooke.

VIDEOBeautiful video of the printing process at work. GFSmith x Strathmore.

VIDEOThis 3D printed record (for Fisher-Price clockwork record player) plays Portal's "Still Alive" ~ made with Processing, printed at Shapeways - video proof it works!

Create your own Minecraft cubic coolness for real with Minetoys and Shapeways bringing your avatars to life.

Try on making your own espresso cup via Shapeways 3D printing ceramic. A project by Aminimal Studio, Mary Huang, and Alan Hudson.

Foul Play Football Trophies : Celebrating Bad Sportsmanship by Wong Wong with the help of Dotsan and Shapeways 3D Printing.

Get some foliage for your Fixie: Colleen Jordan's wearable planters.

DIY Bugaboo stroller repair thanks to 3D printing, a pocket knife and a bottle opener.

Scarab Pendant 3D printed in Sterling Silver for entomological fetishists. Design by Elytra, 3D printing by Shapeways.

Customized Tableware is a click away with Shapeways 3D Printed Glazed Ceramics.

Penrose triangle, optical illusion made real with 3D printing via Shapeways

Over The Top, a 17x17x17 Rubik's Cube by Oskar van Deventer will be unveiled to the world at the New York Puzzle Party Symposium on Saturday Feb. 12th.

Scissor Bird! by chris89 on Shapeways ~ part of his toonbirds collection

Wrap your iPad in 3D printed goodness. A custom pattern applied to the Canvas Wrap from jbare design.

Adorable shark and alligator clips from Noodle-Labs.

Cool little Anchor Guy figure by MoShape - made using Shapeways 3D printing technologies - nice.

A sculptural vase by Nervous System generated by reaction diffusion, a process which simulates how chemicals diffusing across a surface react with one another to produce stable patterns.

Polyoptic Bangle by Euphy is an organic yet spacy piece 3D printed in Alumide (aluminum polymer composite) by Shapeways.

MegaBlinBling Ring by Berlin based Mendel Heit. a masculine ring 3D printed in stainless steel by Shapeways. Heit's works investigate interaction, 3d-Printing, generative shapes, innovative concepts, intelligent & sustainable solutions.

The Structural Skull Ring by Bits to Atoms pushes 3D printing to celebrate the digital aesthetic. The structure is reduced to the minimum connecting lines to describe the form in a triangulated gestalt manner. Available exclusively through Shapeways.

Fun idea ~ those old school geometric polygon building kits as a lampshade... or at least the base structure for one...

Create your own branding iron! It's a new head for your lighter. It will replace the old head with an addition text on it. Heat the lighter and the text will get hot. After a minute, press your text against an object to tag it.