When one considers what to do with $15,000 cash money, purchasing a single skateboard is probably not very high on the list…unless said skateboard is made from gold of course.
NYC artist Matt Willet met up with his father–a professional gold plater—for a father/son bonding session at Brooklyn-based Epner Technology to create what is surely one of the most expensive ways of kick-flipping and pop-shoving it around your local skate park.
This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist brings an entirely new face-smack of great music to help propel you through those laborious, tedious design tasks for the next few days. This week we’re picking up the tempo with some indie electronic music that is among the best available today. We’ll start with Paper Trails from the Nicolas Jaar outfit Darkside and work our way through some Bombay Bicycle Club, Sylvan Esso, Lolawolf, and others before wrapping up with Slip from Elliot Moss.
Funded by the European Commission with whopping grant of €3.5 million ($4.86 million), the MatHero Project takes on the onus of providing us with environmentally friendly, organic photovoltaics that are efficient and cost effective. As a part of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), one of Europe’s leading energy research establishments’ initiative, you can expect some path-breaking innovations from this project.
At the pace this industry is moving, there will come a time when we will have designers dime-a-dozen, churning out half-baked ideas as the next big thing. Feeding fodder to their imagination will be a new generation of 3D Printers that are affordable and easy to experiment with. Leading this new generation is New Matter’s MOD-t 3D Printer that claims to be cheap, with a preorder set at $300 a pop.