The furniture of the future could be made from nothing more than two long strands of yarn. A prototype manufacturing machine developed at Carnegie Mellon University is transforming traditional textile ...

When I was a baby, my grandma knit me an impressive range of little booties and blankets. I’ve been worried that I will utterly fail at my grandmotherly duties when I eventually have grandchildren ...

We have featured plenty of projects here on Geeky Gadgets that have been created using 3D printing technology and a new project by a team of makers is definitely worth mentioning. Circular Knitic is a ...

Ordinarily, programming an industrial knitting machine to knit a certain type of item is quite a complex process. As a result, they're generally not used to create one-offs. That could change, though, ...

Knitting dates back to the 11th century, but it’s blowing up in a whole new way in the 21st. In short, machines can knit as well as your grandma, and even go one better —now they’re tricked out with ...

At last, a use for that industrial knitting machine you bought at a yard sale! Carnegie Mellon researchers have created a method that generates knitting patterns for arbitrary 3D shapes, opening the ...

3D printing is great if you need to create something made of plastic or even metal or ceramic out of thin air. But what if you want something fuzzier and warmer? Something, like say, a hand-knit scarf ...

The process of making seat covers hasn’t changed significantly for decades, according to Ford. The Blue Oval hopes to pelt its upholstery department into the 21st century thanks to 3D knitting ...

BOSTON — With its tidy racks of dress shirts, trousers and sweaters, the Ministry of Supply shop on Newbury Street looks, in many ways, similar to other clothing stores. That is, except for the ...

Deep in the recesses of a few enterprising hackerspaces, you’ll find old electronic knitting machines modified for use with modern computers. They’re cool, and you can knit colorful designs, but all ...