Readers who religiously track the origin, blend, and temperature of their professionally-pulled morning espresso shots might want to turn away from this one. This week, the first test-run of a new vending machine service called Briggo Coffee Hauses (designed in conjunction with Yves Behar and his Fuseproject group) launched in Austin, Texas. Would you trust a robot to make your beloved morning Macchiato?
Shower rings? iPhone cases? Banana Hooks? Watering Spouts? Whatever products you might create on your 3D printer as an alternative to purchasing said products, researchers at Michigan Technological University have determined that after a years’ time, you will most likely have paid for the 3D printer in money saved alone. Ultimately, this brings up perhaps a more interesting question: What do you actually use your 3D printer for that you would otherwise purchase?
This week EngineerVsDesigner sat down with one of the guys who is ridding the world of peanut butter knuckles one screw thread at a time…Mr. Spencer Vaughn! Spencer is one of the engineers behind the viral hit ‘Jar with a Twist‘—a new take on packaging design that gives the user a constant ‘full jar effect’. We’ll talk with Spencer about how he and his team came up with the idea, how they developed and prototyped their idea, and would he grow cricket legs if given the opportunity?
Buckle your eyeball harnesses and strap back your jaw, the Gnomon Workshop is coming up this fall and it’s your chance to see 3D artist doing their thing LIVE. There are 10 artists in the mix at the two day event and you’ve likely heard of many of them before. They’re professionals in their field that have worked on some of the biggest movies and games ever made, including Star Trek: Intro Darkness, Pacific Rim, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Diablo III, Prometheus and so much more. It may just be the reason to take that trip to Southern California you always planned.
Before the ever-popular selfie-style photograph…which arguably has a very high compositional failure rate…people did things the old fashioned way: they asked someone to take a photo for them. Japanese company Sunpole saw a glaring opportunity in world where smartphones outnumber people and created the first ‘official’ selfie smartphone stand.