In DESIGN

The Grasshopper: It Folds Up, It Recharges, It's Designed in SolidWorks *Update!*

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Ya know the speeder bikes in Stars Wars you always dreamed of riding on? Well, this bike is the next best thing for the moment. Storm Trooper, neat sound effects and wooded terrain sold separately.

The Grasshopper, designed by David Gonçalves, is a collapsible, self-charging, energy-conserving joy-ride that can trasnform into a trolley or stationary bike. It won the Merit prize in the 2008 12th International Bicycle Design Competition and it just so happens that it was designed in SolidWorks.

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In DESIGN

SolidWorks Flickr Find: The Wassily Chair. It's Kinda Comfortable.

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Do you ever look at a chair and say, “that thing looks so uncomfortable.” and then you sit in it and yeah, it’s uncomfortable but then your like, “wellll, it’s kinda comfortable.”

That’s the Wassily Chair. The icon of modern modern furniture from Marcel Breuer. You can actually download a SolidWorks model of this chair here.

The chair. It’s cool, it’s popular, watcha think?

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In SMACKDOWN

Friday Smackdown: Jump Slam

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I don’t know what was so surprising about it. I mean, a jump kick to the face like that is rare but not uncommon. Granted, it was desktop lamp with no legs and spouting nonsense such as these links. Strange Happenings – The crazy animation art of Sheharzad Arshad MultiColr Search Lab – How cool…

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In 3D CAD TECH

Adaptive 3D Sketching System of the Future: AutoDesk Gets it ON… On a Mac

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I’ve just picked my monitor up off the floor and guess what I see underneath? The warm glow of a video showing some extremely cool sketch technology coming out of AutoDesk University this week.

You remember I (Heart) Sketch? The 3D sketch system that brings conceptualization back to a native hand-drawn environment. Amazing isn’t it? Well, AutoDesk has gone one step further. Video after the jump.

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