I think it’s about time to leave the table-top to coffee spills and action movie fight scenes. Why? Because who needs to interact with a table-top multi-touch surface when you can interact with any surface… anywhere. Pranav Mistry has his own idea on what it means to fully utilize your environment and all the objects…
The process? It is thus. You close all the doors, the small furry ones stay contained. the humpbacked ones scoop up the furry ones and these links take care of the rest. Alex Ries – You deserve to have your imagination attacked by squid EVA and furry beaked bipod illustration. Loma BlackForceOne – 783 ponies…
I don’t know about you, but the Tauntaun scene in Empires Strikes Back was EPIC. In one captivating scene, it taught us the single best way to survive a blizzard is to have the carcass of a very large, very smelly animal with you. Scott Holden was equally inspired and decided to create his own…
Good news for all of you who inadvertently stick your hands in the front fork of bicycles from time to time. You’re gonna have to go back to sticking them in the chain with this new, totally functional bike design from Olli Erkkila. Olli, graduate of Lahti University Institute of Design in Finland, not only…
I know. It’s dinner conversation that goes right along with slamming your hand in the potatoes of the person right next to you. POTATO HAND SLAM… “So, What in the world is Qi Pan up to these days at the ol’ Cambridge University Engineering Department?” One word for ya. Rowdiness. The boy has spun out…
In one week we’ll be smackin’ ourselves (and you) with some Autodesk University coverage. Why would we do that? Well…for good reason party people. 1) product dev tech 2) Las Vegas 3) ponies 4) they invited us. We’re probably excited. In fact, we’ll probably give some awkward high-fives to people we hardly know. What else…
Why I remember clear as cankers. It was an ancient foe, deserving the worst of our back-hands and bayonets, until it bestowed unto us pajamas, warm and cozy and then these links. Yukari Masuike – Haaayt! Mythical skull tigers? Ice dragon. yes and yes. The 10 weirdest Physic Facts – For instance, it’s a fact…
Out of the list of awesome things you’ve accomplished, including bathing a kitty, chopping celery and catching a pineapple in your mouth, there’s some other things as a human being, and even more, as a design engineer, you should be able to do. If not, you’re doomed. In response to a guest post here on…
Of course it’s a valid question! We just can’t ignore that after mankind’s self-imposed moment of singularity, we’ll all basically be fleshy corpuscles in the eyes of of our sentient, mechanized masters. That is until we realize that robots hate anything made of peanut butter. You know it’ll happen. So, ok, most of you may…
Out of the millions of things in the world to get really, really embarrassingly excited about, storage read/write speeds are UP there. Are ya with me? YEEEEEEAH. Start giving your bandwith brothers high-fives, because Fusion-io knows what you want and the latest ioXtreme SSD is setting the standard, at least for the next week, for…
No, you didn’t get snapped in the eye with a hand towel. SolidWorks is pasting the paper to poles with a year-end promo to scream at your boss about. If you’re in the market for a shiny new seat of SolidWorks, you’re getting an upgrade worth two knee surgeries and some morphine, or $4000. The…
I’m so glad you’re sitting down crushing red tomatoes and generally feeling pretty happy about life. You know why? Because you need to prepare yourself for what you’re about to see. It’s THE first episode. The first episode of whaaaaaaat? MechanicalMashup.tv… that’s what. The star of the show is the Ben Eadie of SolidMentor, SolidJott,…
Now that’s the five kinds of awesome a goat can be thrown at. Not that I’m into throwin’ goats you understand, but the more you throw, the more links like this ya get. Pantural Cars Shelby vs Camaro vs Jeep vs Vaz 2107 vs Helicopter… and only 110 days to render. Thanks Mikeo! 13 tools…
The level of my customization for something that needs the standard ‘ugly’ removed is typically slapping stickers all over with a little spray paint. It just doesn’t get any more ‘ROCKIN’ than that… in my opinion. SolidWorks Labs has got the same idea for the Presentation Studio app we reviewed last year, and guess who…
Don’t you just love tops. I’ve always liked them. They just make you feel like stripping out the carpet, painting yourself red and spinning as many as you can right before the in-laws walk into the room. That, however, has nothing to do with the design and inspiration behind the Herman Miller Select series of…
Look out Photoshop aficionados, the dev team over at 3DVia has been drinking their milk, running laps around the Dassault campus and has just launched the mother of all 3D plugins to ease your graphical design pains. It’s 3DVia for Photoshop. The plugin that allows you to bring 3D models from 3DVia directly into Photoshop…
I’m sorry if you bit off two of your fingers with delight while reading that headline, but believe it. PLM and simple in the same sentence, along with a completely obscure red glove metaphor? How can that be? Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is renowned for it’s complex implementation and lengthy training period. So, what if…
She looked, drawn and dazed at the weary traveler. Nothing had been said once, at any point in all of time, that captured this one moment she felt him gazing back. Hey! Hey!!! Noooooo, not that kind of drama people. CAD Drama. As in, our CAD is dang better than your CAD, or as we…
I know the number one thing you are wondering as you tumble down a rocky cliff on your snowboard is, how the heck am I going to get back up there to do this all over again. Problem solved… at least for Ken Block it is. He, along with Rally America and a handful of…
It started with a buzz and a jitter, then five of them flopped like wet onions onto the launch deck. Then it got scary. They started singing and shooting liquid cheese and these links from their eyes. BearFoot – Robots, ships and wicked cool 3D is just a small part of what Neil Maccormack does.…
Once again 3D is hitting the iPhone with a fearsome tenacity that makes you just plain ignore regular phone users. But this time the 3D goodness isn’t in the iPhone, it’s on it… and it’s on it in a not-over-the-top-at-all, ultra-fashionable way. FreshFiber, with the styling skills of Janne Kyttanen, has launched a fresh line…
It’s been a while since your uncle that glues batteries and LED’s to his face has visited, so you may be getting a little anxious to view blinking lights and oddities that boggle the mind. Lucky you. Today we have a light-emitting creation from the mind of Paul Pounds. It stuffs 133 surface-mounted LEDs into…
I’m judging by that look in your eye and the 50 lb sledge hammer in your hand that you’re aimin’ to beat something into shape. But before you pin me down, let me throw something sizzlin’ your way. How does this sound? Two ways to shape the shapes you love to shape using SolidWorks to…
Well, gone are the days where you just go off willy, nilly and make a samurai costume out of hole-ridden, lead containers for nuclear waste. That’s right, the dems in the US Senate and House are busy correcting your mis-use of material for electronic component design by drafting up legislation that will provide grants via…