UK-based brothers Simon and Chris Parke surely have an appetite for underwater exploration adventure. Their S.C.P. Marine Innovation Limited is a Portsmouth based start-up dedicated to the powered marine action sports category and the two have just launched a ShareIn campaign for a wearable propulsion system that utilizes high-performance marine thrusters mounted on the user’s forearms…effectively allowing a user to ‘fly’ underwater to save that damsel pool toy in distress.
One of the biggest hurdles in moving 3D printing forward has been the material constraints for creating ‘all-in-one’ products. Sure you can take apart that old computer mouse, hack together a new form factor in SolidWorks, spit it out of your MakerBot and fasten the still-warm pieces together, but few people would call that ‘revolutionary’ once they got past the 3D printing hype. When asked earlier this year about the threat of in-home manufacturing in the consumer goods sector, Amazon CEO and Founder Jeff Bezos stated that “…It will be an exciting world, when it happens someday.” While we won’t be expecting a functioning 3D printed toaster anytime soon, perhaps that future is coming a lot more quickly than Bezos and others had anticipated—particularly with this all-in-one printed loudspeaker design from Cornell’s School of Mechanical Engineering.
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 off with Toe Cutter-Thumb Buster by Thee Oh Sees and work our way through some Deerhunter, James Blake, Autre Ne Veut, and King Krule before wrapping up with Fancy Restaurant by Gang Colours.
The churning sound withered with the distance. No longer would tiny chocolates and their furry battle lord companions be left from crossing realms. Some were skeptical, some we’re blinded by frost bitten eyes, but others, yes many others, rose up and crossed the divide gaining strength through a moderately paced three-course breakfast and these links.…
We’re always talking about the future of design, the future of technology, the future of MAKING. In a world where we can interact with empty space, a world where we can 3D print our own shower curtain rings and bionic ears, a world where we’ll be sending people to space for vacation, how do we find the next ‘big thing’? Maker Galaxy is a show that explores the crossroads of Design, Technology, and the Future of Making.
In this episode we’ll be talking to TED speaker, author, and Autodesk Fellow Tom Wujec on how he jumped from a scientist role to a creative director, how we can innovate more effectively, how he helped bring the popular Sketchbook Pro digital sketching app to market, as well as gain deeper insight into his popular Marshmallow Challenge TED presentation.