If you’re anything like me you have a blast furnace on standby, ready to toss a shoddy product design into the very instant it frustrates you.

Fortunately, you have great skills… great Kung-fu CAD skills that, harnessed under the proper kind of energy-efficient lighting with sufficient doses of caffeine, would rival the power of a million suns… or a design intern with bad head cold. There are a LOT of things that could use a good redesign, but what would you choose out of this list? or… What would you add?

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Before you pour milk into you bowl of oats and OS upgrades, take a whiff of this. Let’s say you’re rockin’ SolidWorks 2009 and want to get into Windows 7 stat because Vista is making you a bitter old curmudgeon with long fingernails. What are your options?

Well, if you depend on the guidance of SolidWorks Video and Graphics Card Testing, you’ll want to know that there are not too many GPU’s certified for SolidWorks 2009 on Windows 7. In fact, there are zero.

What if you could stick suction cups on your oculars and move models around on the screen with your eyeballs? Yeah, and, what if you could stick suction cups on your chest, hands, neck and elbows to do the same thing? Oh yeah. Well, what if… you didn’t need suction cups… BOO.YAH.

We’ve talked about Microsoft’s Project Natal making your 3D CAD hands dance, but what about Apple? Houston Neal from Manufacturing Software Advice has some ideas and shows one way your massive brain cage could harness 3D.

CES 2010 just blew the doors off sales tax revenue out in Las Vegas this past week and at the same time blew our minds with some juicy new tech headed our way. Tech that could very easily find it’s application, or even it’s perfect fit in 3D product design and development.

While there was plenty of talk about the dawning of our next decade being viewed through 3D HDTV’s and upon wee tablet devices, we’ve picked the ones that stand out. Ones that not only make you flare your drool-drenched teeth shanks, but also the ones we’d love to strap to ourselves in our own office. Here are the top 10 we cant wait to get our hands on. Which is your favorite?

Slowly step away from the cheese spread and permanent markers. You no longer need to dowse your sorrows with imitation milk products to add color to your 3D prints.

If you know Shapeways, you know they keep excreting multiple ways to create 3D printed products. Now they’re adding a new machine to the mix that throw in cart sweet starchy color for your 3-dimensional design. Thing is, it’ll run you $1.65 per cubic inch. So, while I scale all my designs to be smaller than tiny, check out the details.