Between those who may be presenting reasons for a particular color or feature on a logo, or those who consider themselves branding experts, there are quite a few questionable design jargon statements made in the design world. The Design Jargon Bull$#!& Tumblr is your humorous archive of ridiculous design statements that just might make you cringe so hard that a chunk of your right molar breaks off.
When high-school students get bored it can only lead to one thing… The design of a new, fully-articulating prosthetic leg made from bike parts that cost a fraction of a professionally manufactured leg. Parker Owen’s Saturday night boredom turned into looking at picture on the Internet… pictures of bicycle schematics and prosthetic design. Now, he has a provisional patent on the prosthetic leg, plans to make more and the goal to take several with him on a summer mission trip to Honduras where he’ll manufacture 20-30 additional legs over the week-long trip.
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You recall Makerbot’s Shapeshot that grabs shots of your cranial casing and meshes it in mere seconds for you to print? Well, low and behold, Makerbot has now announced their desktop 3D scanner, the Makerbot Digitizer. Bre Pettis announced the news of the prototype on stage at the keynote kicking off this year’s SXSW event, explaining that the machine is capable of scanning objects 8 inches around and 8 inches tall. It will be available this fall with price yet to be announced. You can sign up now to get on the notification list.
Rockets. There just are not enough of them escaping the clutches of our atmosphere. Fortunately, we have people interested in making more rockets happen and open source websites–or rather movements–like DIY Rockets to give rocket development and learning a boost. Now, Sunglass and Shapeways are meeting at the launch pad with DIY Rockets for a competition that increases the collaboration and the 3D printing around rocket science. All sorts of things are being 3D printed of late, so why not rocket engines?