NEXTENGINE, the leading manufacturer of 3D Scan instruments, announced today that its Desktop 3D Scanner won a coveted NASA Tech Briefs “Product of the Year” award at a special industry dinner ...

With all the attention on 3D printing, I started wondering if anyone had created a 3D scanner. Of course, I knew the answer had to be yes, so I went looking. That’s how I found NextEngine and their 3D ...

This is awesome. A Lego and 3D fanatic took a small Mario figurine, scanned it into a computer using the NextEngine 3D Scanner and used the data to create a near-perfect replica in Lego bricks, just ...

The line between computers and reality has been blurred. We have murders committed because of World of Warcraft, Second Life romances (an activity normally reserved for the three dimensional world), ...

This is a LEGO workflow that truly appeals to the geek in me. Keith Brogan digitized a Mario figure using a NextEngine 3D scanner. Then he imported the resulting mesh into a program called Modo, where ...