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First Impression: Wacom’s Bamboo Paper for iPad

21 Jun, 2011 by Jeffrey Matthias in NEWS, REVIEWS, TECH
3D Human CAD Models

It came to my attention this morning that Wacom, the purveyor of drawing tablets for your computer, has issued yet another iPad product under their Bamboo brand: Bamboo Paper. It’s pitched as “a natural and realistic writing and sketching application tool” as a “perfect complement to the Bamboo Stylus for iPad.” After playing with it for the day, I agree. It is the perfect compliment for the Bamboo stylus; both leave me wondering why Wacom bothered. What follows is more of a first impression than a full review.
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ShapeDad One-Ups Wacom’s Bamboo stylus: Makes Eco Stylus Out Of Actual Bamboo

31 May, 2011 by Jeffrey Matthias in REVIEWS

After my rant about Wacom’s announcement of their aluminum Bamboo Stylus for iPads—and all other capacitive screens—Shapedad’s Ivo Beckers got ahold of me and asked me to try out his Eco Stylus. Turns out, it is actually made of bamboo. I waited until I had a good bit of experience with the new stylus before writing my thoughts down. Read my full review after the jump.
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Wrap Your Eyes Around the Sweet Thrill of Glasses Free 3D

11 May, 2011 by Josh Mings in TECH

Hear that buzz? It’s the sound of your eyes glazing over in the pasty radiance of light while the capacity of your ocular cavities is subjected to the era of 3-dimensional space upon the screen of a hand-held device. That sentence may have been slightly too long, but when you’re viewing 3D on a 2D screen, that makes it all ok. What else makes it ok? Head tracking. For that is the juice being used in the imminent release of an app developed by Jeremie Francone and Laurence Nigay.

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An iPad Stylus and Case to Put a Smile on Your Face

28 Apr, 2011 by Josh Mings in TECH

You may be familiar with the new crowd-funding product design craze. It’s ridiculous. The number of projects achieving funding is amazing. We’ve featured some on here and know of others who are preparing to launch their ideas into the crowd cashing cosmos.

Recently, two interesting projects popped up which show how a small team is innovating in a very competitive, highly saturated market. Not a large production company, mind you, a small team. My hope is that putting up projects like this will inspire you or pop some ideas into that noggin as you pursue imaginative thoughts of having your own design funded by complete strangers.

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Seriously Wacom? A New Stylus? Seriously?

20 Apr, 2011 by Jeffrey Matthias in NEWS

Last week, while Josh was in a travel-weary coma, I went through his wallet and found his login to SolidSmack. (Your wallet, Josh? That’s pretty lame, man.) I choose to abuse my new found access to the SolidSmack media empire by writing this rant… directed towards Wacom.

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From Engineering to Art. The Amazing Sketchbook of Shaun Mullen

14 Dec, 2010 by Josh Mings in DESIGN

You’re sitting in a design review meeting. In a conference room. The dull buzz of the fluorescent lights match the mono-tone static of some voice in the room, but who cares, you’ve got a pen. Before you know it, you’ve inked an entire mural across the wall, the whiteboard and your boss’ face. He would be upset, but he’s quite amused that you were able to hold him him down long enough to draw a small robot holding a laser gun in the crevice of his cheek. Inspiration can hit us at any time.

It hits all the time for one engineer who turns color into some of the coolest environments you’ll ever see. Introducing Shaun Mullen. He’s an engineer, but he’s also an artist and quite an amazing one at that. From Cumbria UK, Shaun brings forth the beauty in illustrations he creates with finger and stylus using Sketchbook Pro for the iPad. Yes, all of the artwork you’re about to see was done on an iPad. I had the opportunity to talk with Shaun and learned more about his background in engineering and what inspires him.

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The Best BIM Design, Drawing and Reference Apps for the iPhone and iPad

14 Sep, 2010 by Josh Mings in RESOURCES

There are a whopping 500 apps in Apple’s AppStore for architects and contractors. This includes apps categorized as “games,” “lifestyle,” and “entertainment.” While SimCity Deluxe might alleviate stress on the job site, it’s not going to help create layouts or access floorplans.

So, Software Advice has slapped together a list of the best iPhone and iPad apps for the AEC industry. They’ve filtered through ~500 apps and selected 34 of the most useful. They removed irrelevant results, sorted by trade and functionality, and prioritized the list by user ratings and popularity.

The result is their blog post, “The Best Construction Management Apps for the iPhone and iPad.” You can also view a complete list of AEC apps (minus the irrelevant results) in this Google Doc. Here, we highlight six of the apps from their list that are developed for design and architecture.

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Autodesk Fluid FX Makes Your iPhone, iPad Spray Visual Goodness

30 Jul, 2010 by Josh Mings in ROCKIN'

I don’t even use Autodesk Maya, so I have no idea what I’m saying, when I say… This is JUST like Maya. EXACTLY like the morphing effects that make you go to the next Hollywood blockbuster, raise your fist and shout, “The director and visual effects department that made this film are making blood shoot out MY EYES!!!!”

Well, Autodesk has gone and done the unthinkable, nay, the unimaginable, and squeezed that technology into your iPhone and iPad, at least the wee bits that fit. 10 controls plus a heap of presets.

Best part, you can fondle your touch device with all ten fingers warping such things as smoke, fire or the photo of your boss you took when he was climbing out of the freezer. Here’s more, along with a flattering photo of myself.

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JumiMouse. Control SolidWorks (or anything else) from Your iPhone or iPad via WiFi [Givaway]

31 May, 2010 by Josh Mings in TECH

You know that annoying guy who’s blocking the soda machine because he’s looking down at his iPhone? He might not be texting or leveling up on a game, he might just be designing an extremely life-changing product to serve you up a cold beverage without leaving your seat… and he might be using an app called JumiMouse to do it.

Jumitech has created a slew of apps that give you complete control over your computer, the software on it and the device connected to it. The ones you’ll be interested in are the apps allowing you to control programs like SolidWorks via WiFi.

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