You may like to argue about whether or not 3D Printers will go mainstream, but one thing is for sure, you can get started pretty easy, pretty soon and do it on the cheap.

Prepare your fingers for nicks, scraps and beautiful droplets of layered ABS plastic. Next week, Makerbot will start shipping their Cupcake 3D printer. Right now, you can buy it before it starts shipping for $750.00 or you can purchase 250 of these bad boys for $525.00 each.

Here’s the details and the video. Are you getting one?

What could be more exciting than a thermos filled with your favorite soup flying across the room and hitting you in the neck? A heated, self-illuminating thermos filled with your favorite soup, that’s what.

Nicolas Bernal, from Montreal, Quebec, has been busy finding ways to keep his mama’s best recipes warm on a long hike and sending SolidSmack some juicy insight to the design. What I’m wondering from you is, do you think this is a feasible concept?

Could it help developing countries? Take a look and join the discussion!

Look out unemployed and soon-to-be-unemployed engineers and designers… SolidWorks has gone and done the nearly unimaginable… free software.

For a limited time, they are offering a free trial download of SolidWorks 2009 to stimulate the corpuscles out of your ever-loving, unemployeed facial pores. And although your excitement may instantly look like a bad case of rosacea, the visible joy could very well turn into SolidWorks skills you’ve never known. Check it out.

That’s gotta feel like being attached by wild raccoons with stale pizza crusts. Retreat! Retreat!! take shelter beneath these links fair maiden. Sibocks 3D Abstract Gallery – Inspiring and also representing the way I fee about right now. Hold the noise down. 50 Free lessons in Graphic Design Theory – ah, you can never have…


Grab the nearest cardboard box and have a seat, we’re gonna take a look at a chair aimed at making you 17.8% more productive and your dwindling butt muscles more comfortable through those long hours of your busy computer-busting life.

Designing and Engineering, browsing and writing tend to take toll on our bipedal bodies. You’ve seen the guy hunched over the desk or leaning deformed against the armrest. Painful looking and not a good mood enhancer. There’s a reason all those people are smiling in the ergonomic chair marketing material… they’re forced beyond their will by comfort… and probably a guy off to the side slapping a mallet against his hand.