A new season is here! The swallows are chirping! The pollen is in the air and the SolidSmack update is GO. In this series of video podcasts we recap the titillating news and stories from this week in Design, Tech, CAD and FAB.
At first you may think these are structures you lay on the ground and hide under. You wait for children (or old people) to walk by, then with one quick motion rise up like a life-size pop-up book bringing delight and enchantment (or horror) to the children. Architect and Designer Robert van Embricqs is bringing such enchantment with his flat-folding design. Among the mix are tables, chairs and building that begin from a perfectly flat surface then extend into the unimaginable.
Releasing the chain’s cusp did no good. It did not move. It would not move. Coated with scales and fur, stretching past the openings at each end of the gorge, it lay there, the last of them. As night fell, there was but one last hope. He wrapped the cord from head to tail and…
Turns out rearranging molecules sounds like the soundtrack to a blood-drenched, space-horror film. As you’ll see (and hear) in the video below, Scientist and Engineers from Stanford University and the US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have found a way to move carbon monoxide molecules one at a time to create ‘designer electrons’ – variants of existing electrons, mind you – that can be tuned, squeezed, rearranged and stretched to make them do our bidding.
I’m not sure if the following is pure genius or if it goes too far. Who am I kidding! 3D printed guitar bodies in the shape of spiderwebs and the brachy environment of butterflies, beetles and bugs. They’ve gone too far and that’s exactly why it’s pure genius.