A flood of tumbling cedar berries filled the root burrows of waxwing ravine. Near its end the tendrils wrapped and fell in quiet ease as the rumbling grew louder and the edges of the sky broke open at the rising of these links. Pavel Vophira – The pastely, muted tones our my favorite in the array of surreal scenes of large robots, ships, machines, and floating vehicles. Unreal Engine 5 Demo – There’s a reason it has almost 10 Million views in just a couple of days. Absolute, pure awesome. Jerry Stiller RIP – Jerry Stiller, best known as George Costanza on Seinfeld, passed this week at the age of…

Truth be told, I never quite understood e-bikes. I mean, why have an electric-powered bike when a traditional bike provides exercise and less manufacturing and electronic waste? Then again, used as a daily commuter, any extra power would be welcome. Plus – and this is a big bonus – an e-bike helps you avoid public transportation. However, there are a lot of e-bikes out there less durable than a plastic toy scooter. As soon as they hit a few bumps or an unpaved road, they creak, snap, or pop loose like a pile of pasted popsicle sticks. Copenhagen-based Annobike, is set to change this with the Annobike A1. The A1…

There’s are a couple of reasons why computer keyboards are made from plastic and not wood. 1) Wood doesn’t lend itself to mass manufacturing like plastic does and 2) the amount of abuse and hand oils absorbed by the wooden keys would wear faster than the myth of George Washington’s wooden teeth. But that won’t stop YouTuber The Q, who throws caution to the wind and jumps at the chance to show a step-by-step process on how to create a wooden computer keyboard of your very own: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ3Fv84rHK4 1. Make The Wooden Backboard Using a cheap plastic keyboard as a basis for his design, cut a keyboard outline onto a…

Miele, the high-end German manufacturer of consumer goods, now offers downloadable 3D models for printing. The company produces a wide array of top-notch consumer products, including vacuums, stoves, refrigerators, washers and dryers, wine coolers, dishwashers, coffee makers, and much more. Last year their revenue exceeded €4B, making them one of the largest producers of appliances in the world. Appliance makers are one type of manufacturer I always thought could provide benefit to their customers through 3D printing. Specifically, it’s that moment we all experience: the knob on the dishwasher has broken, and we mentally debate whether to buy a replacement for US$79 or simply use a pair of pliers instead.…

I don’t know what you think when you hear of small prints that can expand to 40x their size, but my first thought is JACKETS. Thousands of little jackets printed, stored, and expanded with heat when I need a new one. Just think, unlimited jackets. Of course, there are some other applications like, oh, let’s say aerospace, automotive, medicine but everyone in those industries needs jackets too, so… Researchers at the University of California San Diego developed the capability with a foaming prepolymer and published it in a paper at Applied Materials & Interfaces. They state: We have developed a foaming prepolymer resin for lithographic additive manufacturing, which can be…

Kids these days will never appreciate how good they have it. Smartphones with built-in computers? Bah, back in the day we had to be content with clunky boxes, big screens, and a wad of wires. Even then our computers wouldn’t connect to ‘World Wide Web’ without a dial-up connection. Ah, the good ol’ days, right? While we can’t bring’em back, artist and designer Rocky Bergen has made something easier for kids and (kids-at-heart) to enjoy. Using the wonders of modern computers, he has made a variety of papercraft models featuring old computers, game consoles, and many other old pieces of technology. These models, which feature the likes of the Apple…