After I wrote about the ThinkPad Tablet last week, I was contacted by Lenovo and offered a unit to review for a month or so. Of course I took them up on the offer. This is a quick post which will be followed up in a few weeks with an in-depth review.
Yes! The time has come to announce the winners if the very first SolidSmack Design Contest. This… was absolutely incredible. We had over 130 entries across a range of categories spanning architecture, automotive, consumer products and more. You can just see all the entries at GrabCAD. With the amount of entries and the thought that was put into many of the designs, choosing the winners was more challenging than putting this contest together. Nevertheless, we have 7 winners and a big dish of honorable mentions to take home over $15,000 in prizes! Here they are.
That where the waves began rolling in, we floated, silent and still. Brought long after the footfalls of the beast metal shovel lords frozen in half battle gazes. Each held its stance as foam of rust danced and chiseled off these links. Gypsy – Sherry puts a 3D spin on fractal art, that absorbs you…
The office of tomorrow! Is fabulous. It has everything you need. It’s clean, tidy, looks like a basement and best of all, it’s run by machines. That’s just what the vision of the future automated office was way back in ’69. The BBC show Tomorrow’s World takes you there through they observant eyes of James Burke. Watch and feel the comfort as the warm buzz of the BJ-39 tends to your every beckon call.
Autodesk has it out for you. Your software too. And probably your choice of breakfast cereals. Evil. This week they dropped their plans for the future of CAD computing revealing very clearly what software will be delivered over the web and what software service will be accessed through a browser. They’ve slated it as ‘Access to Design Capability from Anywhere, at Anytime’. You, Your design capability. Anywhere. While I think that’s the wrong focus, there’s actually another aspect to the future of CAD that’s being completely overshadowed by all the movin’ and groovin’ into the Cloud, but first let’s look at what the next Cloud poundin’ development phase for Autodesk could be.