Yesterday was the biggest single day for shipping with 594 packages of your 3D printed goodness heading out the door yesterday.  Our friends at UPS had to bring two vans to handle the load and the very last box only just squeezed in.  The record for last year was a peak at 396 packages but this year it is a more constant flow.  If you have missed the chance to get your orders shipped in time for the holidays, you can always give the gift of indecision with a Shapeways Gift Card.  

After all, it's never too late for a last minute gift.....

Growthobjects have shared the unpacking of their africa #ceramic and lillyseed #02 3D prints from Shapeways. Beautiful.

Need to power on for the morning/weekend/work/whatever? The Power Ring by Designerica 3D printed in stainless steel or silver may just be way to get started.

The December shop owner payments are currently being processed so Shapeways shop owners will soon to see a payment into their Paypal accounts (in time for the holidays).  We usually pay shop owners once their accumulated mark-up exceeds $30 but as a gift to all shop owners (and the accounts department) we will be paying out all shop owners, no matter how much they have earned. 

Please note this will be for all completed sales up until November 15th.  For those of you who have not opened a Shapeways shop yet, the holidays is a great time to set yourself up to start making cash from your designs.

A cool Kickstarter project that uses Shapeways 3D printing to extend the usability of the Amazon Kindle

The Kapsule Lightstand by Pieco is everything that you need to make your Kindle complete. It's the highest quality reading light available, and it gets its power straight from the Kindle. It has a slide-out kickstand for hands-free reading, and it provides a comfortable ergo-style grip for long reading sessions.

Thanks to all who came to the Shapeways NYC 3D Printing Meetup, it was inspiring to meet so many new people interested in creating their own products with 3D printing. From jewelers and architects to animators and software designers.  Birch Coffee was a great venue but we may need to find somewhere a little bigger for the next one as it was getting really crowded before last drinks were called and we dispersed into the New York night.

Visit the Shapeways Meetup page to find where and when our next 3D printing Meetup will be to meet people in your area.

Just a quick reminder that Tuesday night, upstairs at Birch Coffee we will be hosting an NYC 3D Printing Meetup.

Come along, bring a friend and your favorite 3D prints and meet more of the NYC 3D print crew.

RSVP via our Meetup page. 

monkey mug / Lis Ferla / http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Shapeways community member and mathematician Henry Segerman was recently interviewed on BBC Radio show Outriders about mathematical shapes and their transference to the physical world as sculpture via 3D printing.  Listen to the interview, check out Henry's site and ponder visualizations of a multi dimension universe. You may remember Henry's Hilbert Curve 3D print (pictured below), and Knotted Kog. Henry is a research fellow at the University of Melbourne doing research in 3-dimensional geometry and topology, particularly involving ideal triangulations.

Our friends at UPS have introduced a new service that will allow you to have a little more control over how and when your Shapeways 3D prints are delivered.

As a UPS My Choice Member you can reschedule, redirect, or give authorization online for UPS to deliver packages without a signature when you won't be home to sign in person = no more missed deliveries. You'll always get the most up-to-date information about UPS deliveries without the need for tracking numbers.  

What better gift for the Minecraft addict than a full color 3D Print of their avatar.

Minetoys is an online service that uses Shapeways 3D printing to create a full color 3D model of a Minecraft avatar.

How does it work?  Your Minecraft skin is rendered in HD file (yeah, HD pixels !) and applied to a 3D model, verified by a human being, and then sent to Shapeways for 3D Printing. You can also choose from over 600 Minecraft avatars from the Minetoys Shapeways Shop including Le Boblennon officiel !, xXNuageZombieXx, Manamaxxx and many, many more.

Want to get together and talk all things 3D printing with other Shapeways users in NYC? Join us on Tuesday December 13 at Birch Coffee for coffee/wine and bring your 3D prints, examples of post production or questions about 3D Printing.  Join us upstairs in the Birch Coffee Library at 7pm and be sure to RSVP via Meetup so that we can reserve enough space. We are looking forward to seeing you there.

Where: Birch Coffee, Upstairs, 5 East 27th Street, Manhattan, NY

When:  Tuesday December 13, 2011, 7pm

As the end of the year fast approaches and time seems to accelerate to some kind of holiday induced singularity the chance to order 3D printed gifts for family and friends is closing fast. Visit the Holiday Planning Page for all details but those in Europe and North America have until December 9th to get orders in the remaining materials while those in the rest of the world have unfortunately now missed the deadline of December 4th.  If you have missed the window of opportunity you can still get a Gift Certificate for the prefect last minute gift.  More on that soon.

Like a 3D Printed Rabbit out of a 3D Printed Hat, Shapeways Brings the 3D Printed Magic to New York Tech Meetup.

On Tuesday 29th of November in front of a capacity crowd of over 800 of New York's tech community at NYU Skirball Center, VP of Engineering and in house magician Josh Levine pulled some 3D magic out of his hat, literally.