That fine young lad you see in the image is giddy with touch-sensitive joy this morning. Soon, he will be able to dish out nearly $4k for the massive Wacom table-top, touch-enabled tablet. After seeing the first iteration of the a Wacom Cintiq multi-touch tablet over two years ago, Wacom has announced that the all-new Cintiq 24HD Touch will be available early August. Ready to get your pixel-pushing touch on?
RepRap, is there anything you can’t do? The University of Pennsylvania announced they have managed to fabricate living tissue using a modified RepRap. (When is a RepRap never modified?) As if self-replicating machines aren’t scary enough, let’s have them making organic matter too. But this is great news for those in dire need of an organ, blood, or a slab of skin. And does these foretell ‘Bio-CAD’ software coming to your desktop. Suddenly, Tin Man and Straw Man don’t have much worry about.
The shards of glass have been tossed in the air. You have but 5 seconds to roll across the floor to the protection of your desk, escaping the falling glass and weeks of applying bandages to the small, uncomfortable gashes. The SolidSmack Cool Tools of Doom n’ Stuff is here to help. Have something cool you’ve come across? Don’t hide it in your neck skin! Send it on in to smoth@www.solidsmack.com. Kick it!
I’m sure you remember the days of storing large prints in flat-files or the binders full of B-size sheets gaurded ever so preciously by the office admistrator’s glaring eye. Those days are (almost?) gone, but now we’re left to stacks of file folders on a network drive, available to be accessed only when we’re in the office and only when we’re logged into the data management system. FlatterFiles.com is changing that, turning the physical flat-file digital and making access to your documents just as easy as it should be.
Innovation like this makes me excited! Solidsmack reported recently on how Optomec was experimenting with depositing metal on plastic and how damn cool (err, hot!) that was. Well, out in the land of RepRaps where printers of different breeds roam and their 3D Printistas tinker, manufacture and share ideas and objects, 3D printing metal on plastic is becoming a reality and Reprapper Rhys Jones is getting very close.