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’ll fire things off with “White Gloves” from the always-delightful Khruangbin before diving into atmospheric tracks from the Pixies, Daniel Lanois, Bonobo, and others before wrapping up with “Saint Germain” from the DJ Cam Quartet. Ready?…

Mondays might not be your favorite day of the week, but the good news is that we’re all in this together ladies and gentlemen. As purveyors of prime Grade A web content, the SolidSmack crew has done some of the heavy-lifting to make sure you get your Mondays started on the right track. Welcome to The Monday List. Every Monday, we link you up with some of the most insightful, informative, and socially-relevant stories to keep tabbed, bookmarked, reading listed, pocketed, or what have you to get your week started on the right foot. Be sure to check in each week for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight…

C-Clamps are great for two things: 1) holding stuff together and 2) everything else. You can use them to support a slab of wood for a tabletop, fasten a tarp around… that thing that needs a tarp around it, grab your friend by the ear, make spaghetti. As a matter of fact, outside of a spatula and a paint scraper, they’re one of the most useful tools around. So, what if you could print an UNLIMITED number of C-Clamps? What about quick grip trigger clamps? Yeah, you know what’s up. Arron Mollet is 3D print king o’ the week for his phenomenal and so-classy-lookin’ 3D printed Quick Grip Trigger Clamp.…

A majority of youngins’ these days don’t realize just how high the cost of living can be as you get older. Medicine, healthcare, transportation, and canes for hitting those disrespectful youngins – these are a few of the things you start screaming about as you age. These items are not cheap, and some are downright unaffordable, especially in more impoverished countries. Thailand is a country rife with poverty. Where many families can barely afford medicines, supporting the aging and older can become a burden. Thankfully, designer Apichai Inthutsingh has a way to make at least one medical necessity a lot more cost-friendly, and may we say, stylish? Using charity-donated, second-hand…

You’d have to squeeze your eye muscles but think about it… Adobe announced their latest AI-driven software. This is the software revealed earlier this year too Ooo’s and Ahh’s at Adobe MAX as Project Gemini. Now, Adobe Fresco… It’s all 2D, and while we’re seeing generative design take off in product dev apps, their approach to material interaction, medium mimicry and real-world outcome (end-product) seems to me to be somewhat unique. Even more, I think it interesting to see how this could affect the way 3D software developers think about design software. Or, how Adobe considers the applications of this for 3D? In some regard, it kind of gives Adobe…

As production companies get more creative with materials in an effort to reduce and reuse waste, more thought is being put into how materials can be used. The New Raw has research labs which allow city denizens to craft recycled furniture, skateboards are being turned into kitchen knives, and now… we have portable speakers made from your old plastic bags. The Gomi Speaker is completely unlike its store-bought counterparts. The body is made from 100% ‘non-recyclable’ plastics and the sound insulation material is made from recycled jean denim, with each speaker diverting 1kg of plastic waste from places they don’t need to be. Approximately 100 plastic bags make up a…