Ah, the camel. The friendly ungulate that provides transport, milk, meat and possibly the foulest breath you have ever smelt. Saddle their fatty humps with some medical supplies and you’ve got a mobile, milk-producing ambulance brigade that can reach speeds of 40mph, survive days without water and keep you company with its toothy, guttural melody. The Baja concept by designer Frederic Schwab is portraying the possibilities of this and making camels looks 10 times more futuristic in the process.
Leaping past the flowering green, he dove. The mist rose around. Even though the grass was deep, the craft’s anti-shields blew the blades back in an boling wake of steam. Trailing fast the speeders came, and then the chance to jump. The ship would hold the mystery and surely reveal the source of these links.…
Hungry for pounds and pounds of purple filament to feed through your printer? I know the answer to that is a pellet-melting YES. However, the cost of this filament… RIDICULOUS. Sure, 3D printers are awesome – You can make virtually anything – But the filament is expensive and there isn’t an easy way to make it yourself. How do we solve this problem? We have design challenges! An open source 3D printer filament extruder challenge.
If you enjoy the plasticy smell of fresh cut PVC in the morning and iconic chair design, you’ll love the new butt hugging iteration from Kenneth Smythe. You’ve seen the asymmetric permutations of his designs before – open-source designs based on musical variation. But where those use materials that are more difficult to work with, the Retrograde Avant Garde chair uses one of the most common materials available and puts it to beautiful use.
Kickstarter is awash with iPhone, iPad and other Apple paraphernalia – it speaks the website’s yuppie creators and contributors – not that it’s a bad thing (Apple user here). After going through the website to make a long-overdue edition of Solidsmack’s ‘Wisdom of the Crowd’, I discovered that many of the best, most funded projects were Apple-related. What do you do then? YOU GIVE IN.