Holster your gab canon for a moment and raise your goggles. You’ll want to clear some room off the old battle barge for a custom cohort of the artistic variety. It’s 4 inches of resin robot goodness and the first Rampart rendition from the London-based lab of Cris Rose.

We’ve featured the custom creations of Cris Rose before. He models some of his robots up in SolidWorks first, then applies the bits and pieces and paint to make extraordinary collectibles sooooo hard to pass up. Rampart was part of the Dragatomi “Not Vinyl” show. Check. it. out!

Oh, believe me, it won’t make bones shoot out your eyes… or eyes shoot out your eyes, although that would be downright impressive. What it will do is create a wave of screaming sack monkeys you can use for canning, Frisbee or viewing these links. Daryl Mandryk – Character concept and digital painting masterpieces filled…

One look at this and you’ll want to grab a vat of melted butter. What happens when design goes head on with engineering?

Something beautiful and crustacean-like.

The collaboration between the two disciplines can yield some pretty amazing products and at ICFF, one of the largest contemporary furniture shows in North America. This year, there was a lot of that going around and the Lobster Chair from Lund and Paarmann is a perfect example to get our claws on. Imagine the conversation between the designer and the engineer on this product…

If you could, you know you would turn your car, your cubicle and every room in your house into a discotheque that would make Tony Manero and your friends do a flying disco split simultaneously.

If you need a good example of what it could be like, take a look at the ‘sensory box’ developed by Paris based Superbien for the Mobile World Congress event. You might not feel like dancing after you watched it, but you may very well slip into a trance like coma as the visuals pound your neural net.

You’re a hardcore SolidWorks model whipper, but maybe you haven’t flipped the program over to see what kinds of features lurk on the bristly backside of the history-based beast. What features are these?

Direct Editing features. Do not FEAR! These are some that have been there in one form or another for some time, but with SolidWorks 2010, they get their own toolbar and a wee bit of added functionality… ya know, to make them useful at times. We’ll pick one of the features apart, Move Face, and whip it silly with tips to show you how it works.