Purell and toilet paper aren't the only items flying off store shelves as coronavirus spreads. Masks have also become a hot commodity, so much so that hospitals across the country have begun sending ...

Purell and toilet paper aren't the only items flying off store shelves as coronavirus spreads. Masks have also become a hot commodity, so much so that hospitals across the country have begun sending ...

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Up to this point in the coronavirus pandemic, public health officials in the United States have advised healthy civilians against wearing face masks, despite a growing grass-roots masks-for-all ...

A local 3-D printing company is doing Its part to help make hospital masks in response to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak. Their 3-D computer creates the masks layer by layer. "We wanted ...

Kamenya Omote, a shop in Tokyo, is selling 3D-printed masks that replicate people's real faces (all images courtesy of Shuhei Okawara/Kamenya Omote) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers ...

Every eight hours, the timer goes off, and Nathan Ortiz and his 7-year-old son head to the garage to check the 3-D printer. "He was asking what I was making, so I explained to him how the masks could ...