Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a first for medicine, a surgeon has successfully implanted an outer ear developed and 3D-printed in a laboratory. A 20-year-old ...

LAS VEGAS —U.S. Navy Seals, hearing aid users and audiophiles all need custom-fit earpieces to get the best sound and perhaps shield their ears from outside noise. New 3D ear scanning technology aims ...

THIS is not just any ear. It is the official standard for the human pinna, or outer ear. Called IEC TR 60959, its shape was defined in 1990 by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) to ...

I remember the days when "cyborg" was a science fiction term and was unlikely to turn up in a serious science paper. Happily, the old folk who attempt to stand between the seas of scientific and ...

A Scottish hospital is using 3D scanning technology to create new ears for children. The Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh is using a scanner and printer in a process which creates a ...

A California 6-year-old born with an ear that never developed has received a 3D-printed ear and hearing aid implant. Mattie Cliburn was teased by other children about her ear, and her hearing was ...

With 3D printing, it seems the things you can make are limited only by your imagination. The latest innovation: a 3D-printed artificial ear. The ear, which looks and functions like a normal human ear, ...

Researchers at the National Physics Laboratory in the U.K. have modeled what they believe to be the perfect human ear. It will replace the “flawed” one created by the International Electrotechnical ...

An artificial - and very lifelike - ear has been built by scientists using a 3D printer and cartilage from sheep. The organ was designed by plastic surgeons to make it look as likelike as possible.