Have you ever looked at your phone’s touchscreen capabilities and wondered, “Man, I wish there was a more wooden way to operate these media players”? If you have and are a fan of well-designed pieces of technology, then this remote control is right up your alley. The re:puk is a wooden Bluetooth controller which allows you to manipulate your media players like an expert club DJ. Created by Dr. Alexander Hakenjos, one side of the re:puk controls the volume while the other switches the available tracks or videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CMZO2fp3Ss Instead of smudging fingerprints across a phone screen, the re:puk requires you to rotate it clockwise or counterclockwise to operate it.…

A sound came from the crevice. And also a smell. It wasn’t unlike a musty dried grass. But wasn’t like it either. Could all of them have made it to the shed? Too small. Too many. But we hadn’t factored in how they could shapeshift into these links. Laurent Palmier – Ships, ships and more ships. And then some more. Absolute treasure trove of inspiration from the Toulouse-based science fiction illustrator. Project Subway – Candy Chan is a New Yorker. As such, she has a fascination with the subway. With that, she has created a series of x-ray area maps. Secret of Mana – I may have to buy a PS4 just…

With demand for analog records surging in recent years, it comes as little surprise that some of the original turntable manufacturers have been coming out of the woodwork to refine their products for a new generation. Yesterday, Panasonic unveiled a prototype of the Technics SP-10R, a direct-drive turntable with the world’s highest-level S/N (signal-to-noise) ratio and rotational stability—with plans to put this masterful piece of engineering into production for a summer 2018 commercial release. Yes—this piece of audiophile kit will most certainly cost you an arm and a leg. In 2015, the 50th anniversary of the Technics brand, Panasonic took on the challenge to combine traditional analog technology with cutting-edge…

Japan-based Mimaki formally announced a new and rather interesting full-color industrial 3D printer. The new machine, the 3DUJ-553 UV LED, is the first 3D printer for the organization, which to this point has produced only 2D color equipment. But they are a large corporation with decades of experience developing very high-quality printing solutions, today making most of their revenue from equipment that can produce large format signage and customized clothing & product prints. They have very significant experience in the color market, unlike most 3D printer companies. The 3DUJ-553 UV LED uses a somewhat familiar process for 3D printing: they have leveraged their ultra-high resolution liquid inkjet system to selectively…

Remember those scenes in Star Wars where the Galactic Empire was huddled around a gigantic hologram table while plotting to kill Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and their oversized rug companion, Chewbacca? How about the clips from Avengers where the team used a similar table to figure out the inner workings of an airship? This is the experience Australian company Euclideon wants to bring next year with their holographic table. Just take a look at this video from gizmag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWsaKsQV5V4 Based on their Unlimited Detail (UD) graphics engine, this holographic table doesn’t create one image to be viewed from different angles. Rather, using frequency separation crystal films, it generates eight individual…

As fall beckons the inevitable release of Apple’s ARKit, more developers are releasing demos of what looks to be a big step forward into an invisible world parallel to our own. The latest foray into the ARKit by Japanese VR/AR/MR programmer Daiki Taniguchi shows just how close this augmented world is. Using a series of visual filters, he created a camouflaged robot which cannot be seen by the naked eye: Don’t worry; it isn’t real. The entire video shows the same AR technology users will be able to experience through the ARKit. Though you can just make out the robot’s silhouette on the left-hand side, the only way to properly…