Those lines. Those edges. The inescapable patterns of grill and USB ports. The new Dell Precision line is here, and although the marketing images look identical to the previous Precision line, these puppies carry a bit more pop than the predecessors. Surprised? Let’s have a look.
How do you open your first 3D print store? Why you kick off the event by cutting a 3D printed chain with a pair of bolt cutters. That’s exactly what iGo3D did. An established online 3D print source/supplier, they’re bringing on the brick-and-mortor, opening the doors over the weekend to the iGo3D Store, the first 3D print store in Germany. The street level space houses printers, scanners, materials and printed goods within a 1430 sq ft retail space and includes a 400 sq ft workshop. The store will be open to the public starting Tuesday, September 10th (today) from 10 am to 6 pm. Michael Sorkin, founder of CEO iGo3D, fills us in on the event and tells us more about the new shop.
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 celebrating the end of summer and the upcoming best season for getting your annual candy corn fix. We’ll start with some Julien Dyne and move through some Evenings, Mojo Rising, DFRNT, and others before wrapping up with Dirty Art Club. If you need anything, I’ll be in the back stuffing my face with the yellow, orange, and white good stuff.
Perhaps you were enjoying some light budgeting of software expenses over the weekend, following thoughts of monthly pricing with icy swigs of Portland’s best pale ale. Would paying monthly work better? How can we get the software we need for this three month project? Autodesk thinks they have the answer. They’ve been moving toward a ‘pay as you go’ pricing model to address software purchasing woes and provide an option for more business-friendly payment plans. They just announced and published new monthly, quarterly and annual pricing for suites and software that is sure to have you considering the options.
When tall, shank-steamed colanders spilled the oily residue through mossy, tangled sieves, the arms reached from outside as the last vestige of light split the sights of a glow and an eye that twitched to reveal these links. Eric Felten – Ships and spaceports of course, but also corridors, landing pads and desktops that delivers…