In 3D CAD TECH

Sketchfab Model Rock: HTC One (M8) in 3D

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You’ve been scratching at your computer screen waiting for the news to drop. Low and behold, HTC has now revealed their latest smartphone, the HTC One (M8) with all the juicy updates you’re likely to want: a bigger screen, more power, dual cameras, expandable storage (128GB MicroSD baby!) and motion gestures for your nubbins. It still has the slick unibody aluminium construction of the One, but with more metal all around doing away with the polycarbonate accents top and bottom. You can get the phone in gray, silver or gold. And, wouldn’t you know it, we have the 3D model for you to move, zoom and spin around right here. Hit it!

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In FAB

Squeeze a 3D Printed Klingon Head (and Get 10% Off Inside 3D Printing.)

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Just look at those two. Another deep, emotional conversation about 3D printed Star Trek figurines. “I’m going to squeeze this Klingon’s head,” she says. “The high resolution makes my neck tendons tingle.” he says. “I’m so glad we got 10% off the full conference pass by using the code on SolidSmack,” she reminisces. Yes, it’s true and you can get 10% off too.

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In DESIGN

Gravity 3D Sketching: New Sketchpad Brings 3D to 2D Using Augmented Reality

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Between the new Mod Notebooks that include return postage for digitizing your analog sketches as well as other sketch tools such as the new(ish) Wacom Cintiq Companion, designers and engineers looking to get their ideas on ‘paper’ have never had as many options for getting their ideas out there as they do today. Perhaps one of the bigger jumps out of the traditional analog sketchbook however is the new Gravity 3D Sketching pad that uses augmented reality to bring your ‘napkin sketches’ to life.

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In NEWS

SolidSmack Radio | So Fresh, So Clean

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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’ll start our smooth vibrations with a classic from Glasser and work our way through some Blood Orange, Darkside, Chromatics, Dean & Britta and others before wrapping up with Antibalas.

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In FAB

Master Modder Ben Heck Creates One-Handed PS4 Controller for Disabled Gamers

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We’ve been known to give Ben Heck a shout-out or two around here ranging from our episode of EngineerVsDesigner where Ben discusses how he got his start modifying game consoles to his more recent projects including hacking the Cubify Sense handheld 3D scanner. The latest project to come out of his workshop though is probably one of the more significant in terms of real human-centered design: The Accessibility Controller for disabled Playstation 4 users.

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