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Keigo Fukumoto, representing Fukui Byora Co., Ltd, Fukui, Japan, during the recent ICOMM 2012 gathering at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., offered a brief backround about the company and its Cold Heading Technology.

Stratasys, Eden Prairie, Minn., and Optomec Inc., Albuquerque, N.M., have partnered in a joint development project to merge 3-D printing and printed electronics to create what Stratasys is calling the first fully printed hybrid structure, according to a release by Stratasys.

Stanford University researchers appear to have their sights set on a "Fantastic Voyage." Remember the science-fiction novel that shrunk a handful of scientists and medical personnel and injected them into a person to perform a surgical procedure? If not, don't bother reading the book now because reality is going to be whole lot more interesting.

Brian Kyte, Alicona's director of Optical 3-D Measurement & Inspection division, recently sat down with MICROmanufacturing Electronic Media Editor Dennis Spaeth for a video interview during The 5th International Conference on MicroManufacturing (ICOMM/4M 2010).

MICROmanufacturing Senior Editor Alan Richter recently met with representatives from Dynomax Inc., Wheeling, Ill., to discuss the company's recent expansion. Dynomax, which is targeting the medical device market for growth, has added two new facilities in the past 2 years. The company's headquarters in Wheeling, Ill., and the new Lincolnshire, Ill., facility gives Dynomax four locations throughout the Northwest suburbs of Chicago.

Second Sight Medical Products Inc., Sylmar, Calif., which developed a retinal prosthesis for the blind that is said to enable patients to see light patterns, recently announced the first such device was successfully implanted in a patient this fall, according to the company's Web site.

Bent Weber, a doctoral student in the ARC Center of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, has developed a conductive silicon wire that is one atom tall and just four atoms wide—yes, the smallest such wire ever made, according to a university news release issued Jan. 6.

At Microfabrica Inc., Van Nuys, Calif., engineers have taken a cue from the semiconductor and additive-manufacturing industries to create what they call MICA Freeform, which the company describes as an ultra-high-precision process that brings together aspects of stereolithography and electrochemical deposition. The process is said to have application in the medical, semiconductor and aerospace markets.

Check out this cool video of thermal laser forming performed at the Penn State University’s Applied Research Laboratory.