It’s time for another round of apps that cover the spectrum of your beloved smart device(s)! The Weekly App Smack is the best of new or updated design and productivity apps (and maybe a couple of fun ones, too) for the busy design or engineering professional. This week we have a list sure to make you more efficient. Do you have an app suggestion that has made your life easier or changed up your workflow? Let us know in the comments below or send it to tips@solidsmack.com. Hit it! Slow Shutter Cam (iOS — $1.99) Slow Shutter Cam brings new life into your device’s photo toolbox by letting you capture a…

After spending most of the year working on space-efficient products like the Intuos Pro Small pen tablet, Pro Pen Slim stylus, and the entry-level Cintiq 16 tablet, Wacom has decided to size things up with its newest addition to their pen display tablet line: the Wacom Cintiq 22. Built to be a larger version of the Cintiq 16 (they even have the same specs under the hood), the Cintiq 22’s biggest draw is its 21.5-inch screen which supports a 1920 x 1080 HD resolution and 72% NTSC color gamut. For more precision-based sketching with less lag and environmental light obstructions, the display features 8,192 levels of pressure sensitivity covered by an anti-glare layer of film.…

Get that stretch out of your system with this week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist. It’s fashioned up, ready to make you pull your shoulder blades back and knock out another week of meaningful work while you bob your head to the beat. Whether you’re in the shop milling aluminum, sketching the latest product prototypes or modeling up a 3D storm, consider these tracks as a tool for your process. This week on SolidSmack Radio we’re kicking things off with “Flow” from Toro y Moi and Madeline Kenney before diving into a variety mind-bending tracks from Jerkcurb, Jim James, Surfer Blood, Big Thief, and others before wrapping up with the classic…

After the Curiosity rover proved itself for 15 long years on the job, its successor, the Mars 2020 Rover, is on the way. According to Associate Administrator, Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA has already begun fueling the new rover in preparation for its launch window between July 17 and August 5, next year. Much like Curiosity, the 2020 rover (which needs a better name, stat) will run on a nuclear-powered device. By converting the heat from the decaying Plutionium-238 core into electricity, the Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) can provide a total of 110 watts to the machine and its various tools through thermocouples connected to the rover’s engine. This nuclear core…

I know what you’re thinking – I could organize my desk all sorts of ways wit ma 12 gauge shotgun ♫ ♪ But hold your reload and save those shells for dove season. What we’ve got for you is a desk organize made from a beautifully laser cut, single-piece of 12 gauge STAINLESS STEEL. Bryan Lagrange is a CAD Manager with Mezco Fabrication out of Lafayette, Louisiana and just opened up the possibility for you to have a completely organized desktop with a clever, multi-functional design for a desktop organizer. And it’s beefy. The 7/64″ (2.8mm) thick stainless steel sheet adds an elegant, yet solid block of beauty to your…

After 10 years of designing sports products, industrial designer Eelco Siebring has opted for quite the career change. No longer designing sporting equipment, he now works as the lead designer and 2D layout artist for Undone, the upcoming, and quite unique, animated series on Amazon Prime centering around a girl named Alma as she interacts with time to solve the mystery behind her father’s death. Here’s the trailer for some context: So, how does an industrial designer fit into the world of cutting-edge ‘2D’ animation? According to a feature he did with Autodesk, designing products and sketching concept art are more similar than you might think. Using his own product…