Cute Robots. Perhaps two words not heard together often. Cool Robots, yes. Fleash-eating robots, sure. But cute? In this case, yes! The Pingbot is a testament to what Instructable user Tomdf can do with a piezo buzzer, IR control, some electronics skill and a sense of humour. Oh and of course, a 3D printer. Tell me if you didn’t laugh after watching this. Come on, don’t lie! That is a CUTE ROBOT!
CAD… on a tablet. I’m sitting behind a 30″ display (with another 27″ display to the side) and dreaming about using 3D software on touch-screen tablet. What is wrong with me? Could it be possible? Could it be usable? The iPad had been all the rage, but other tablets like the Samsung Slate, Acer Iconia, Fujitsu Stylistic and others with their native ability to run a full operating system and professional software are making the iOS app device look like a fancy ebook reader. This week Microsoft has unveiled their own tablet, the ‘Surface’ Windows 8 tablet, striking small amounts of fear/hope in other tablet makers and bringing new options to professional CAD slappers on the go. Is the age of CAD on the tablet upon us?
The challenge of staving off sickness from sleep deprivation suddenly has a direct correlation with chair design. A class of fourth-year Architecture students at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts may be use to sleepless nights by now and even more ready to prove they have the chops to join the design elite. Each student was put to the task of making one chair per week over a 5-week course – not just designing a chair – making five chairs. As Professor and Head-of-Studies Anders Brix stated, “There is no way to understand making, other than going through the process of making”.
Put your thinking caps on. If you could, what would you instantly scan and slice into perfectly sized portions using a laser-scanner machine with a blade? Clay? Steel? Cheese? MEAT? Yes, MEAT. Long, irregular masses of tender, juicy meat that go partially undigested in our intestines for quarter of century. Nantsune, manufacturers of massive food machinery has made the meat-slicing process more efficient than ever with the new Libra 165C high speed slicer. How fast can it scan and cut? Have a look.
Telecommunications! It’s the oldest/newest thing – all the cool kids are doing it – tapping via telegraph, talking via the telephone, even video chatting via Skype – FUN TIMES. But, what about carrying on a conversation with a 3D representation of your pal? Holograms… whatever, it has all been done – we’ve all seen Snoop Dogg sharing the stage with a holographic Tupac. *yawn* But when a cheap, 3D beaming alternative comes about, look out, you may be the holograph.