I know you have dreams. Not the one where you’re falling and wake up floating, then realize you’re just falling the wrong way and then you wake up. Not that one.
The dream I speak of is the one where you go to New York City, set up a giant platform at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and showcase a single furniture piece… rotating… in a spotlight… and free popcorn. Shapeways could make that dream come true. For the first time, they are holding a design contest to get your design in front of the thousands at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). Here’s how to make it happen.
Not all of us are able to build wild contraptions that strap to our backs and allow us to shoot plastic out the tips of our fingers. That’s why there are places like 
You remember, as a child, when you would take your little brother’s head, cover it with mud and hope he would lay still long enough for it to dry so you could crack it open and see if he was an alien? Well, nice try, but your childish antics have got nothin’ on what a certain team of prop building aficionados are capable of.
I’m serious as printed Nutella when I say this. You’re about to get silly thoughts in your head. Silly thoughts about fabbing up this type of trinket or that type of trinket, in a really different way than ever before.
How many times do you see a product design and think, “How could this possibly be manufactured at a reasonable cost?”
On a slow, muggy night I’ll sit back, pop open a can of high density polyethylene and take a look at all the activity happening in the world of 3D fabrication. It’s invigorating. I highly recommend it.
You may like to argue about 
OOOOOhhhhh, it is ON. SolidSmack has been challenged… and when I say challenged, I mean we are pickin’ fights with anything or anyone.
Exactly how rockin’ would you be with your own guitar? Not as rockin’ as you would be with a sweet, custom manufactured axe made to your exact style and specifications.
