It’s not quite Halloween yet, but if you’re the type that likes to plan ahead, then you should consider this for that masquerade ball seven months from now. COLLAGENE is a Kinect software application designed to create adaptive and customizable masks based off of a quick scan from an XBox Kinect. Developed by DO THE MUTATION, the project “explores the border between physical and virtual, connecting computer code’s abstractions with the intimate, visceral dimension of body alteration.”
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 features a reverb-heavy, Shoegaze-inspired playlist including My Bloody Valentine, Blonde Redhead, Dinosaur Jr., and Spacemen 3. Get ready to Rock the rest of the work week with a capital R.
Are you tired of waiting more than two episodes of Breaking Bad for your high-resolution part to 3D print? Two Masters of Engineering students at UC Berkeley are too, and with their ingenius new 3D Refiner Kickstarter project (already funded with 29 days to go), you can 3D print at a fast low resolution, and then transfer your print to the 3D Refiner for a pressurized smooth-blasting solvent that gives you high-quality results…in less than half the time of a high-quality print.
When you run around the office projecting your arm flabs in a wave-like motion toward people’s computers, you may believe you are bestowing unknown performance gains upon the PC’s of your coworkers. You are in fact, simply burning calories and injecting a small amount of fear into their workday. When you do return to your desk, you’ll see that Dell has just announced a free software to help optimize Precision workstations specifically for CAD apps, be it mobile or desktop. Perfect timing, as now, you can email the Dell Precision Performance Optimizer (DPPO) to your office mates and put their fears at rest.
It use to be that when you leave kids to their own volition, you would get various reenactments of Lord of the Flies or, at the very least, flour and eggs sprayed across the kitchen floor. Nowadays… well, you still get that, but with all the activities, online communities and things to make, there’s a lot less time for the mischievous impaling of boar heads on sticks and more time for the making. DIY.org is focusing the potential of children with skill badges that can be achieved through the online community. They also have a handy set of guides for parents and educators and now, they have a special guide to help kids start their own DIY Club.