It looks like Bridgestone is flexing its biceps at Nexo by creating airless bicycle tires that won’t go flat, even when punctured. Unlike conventional tires with an inner tube filled with air to maintain rigidity, Bridgestone’s “Air-Free Concept” wheels feature thermoplastic resin spokes to maintain shape and support the weight. The tires are stretched around the inner rim and made completely from recycled materials, giving a ‘lil bit o’ love back to Mother Earth. The concept was centered around the idea of rider safety by removing the need to pull-off on a road shoulder to change a flat as well as to reduce CO2 emissions from portable air pumps. While Bridgestone doesn’t state…

Hot off the trail of their One DLP 3D printer debuted last year, Taiwan-based Phrozen is back, this time with Make, “the world’s most compact, reliable, and precise LCD light-cured resin 3D printer.” If that sounds like a mouthful, you’re right, but over 240 backers have already put Phrozen over their Kickstarter campaign target goal of $30K with over $250K funded to bring the 3D printer to market. The machine uses LCD lighting to cure Phrozen-spec or third-party resin at what they state is ten times faster than SLA-based printers and sports a resolution up to 2K and a 60% higher contrast ratio over traditional FDM boxes. Phrozen updated their…

An AR platform so good even the military uses it? In this case, the platform in question is Gravity Jack’s PoindextAR- a system capable of detecting and augmenting any object without the need for markers and it can do so using any smart device with a camera. A bold claim would be an understatement, considering how tough it is to accomplish even with today’s devices (whatever happened to Google Glass?). https://youtu.be/dOvHAkU-q5c Some of the more prominent AR applications such as ScanLife, Popcode or Google goggles rely on markers or tags as visual identifiers to superimpose virtual elements onto real objects. They can then be manipulated for various viewing angles, displayed…

If you see me and I’m not holding a pen or pencil, I’m probably asleep or holding a taco in each hand – probably the latter. There’s a reason I have a small budget for writing instruments – I love the smell of a new pen and, of course, the different style and designs. A few in my collection have a stylus and pen, or a pencil and eraser, but none have all four. That would be crazy, right? Well, if you’re wondering if that exists – IT DOES NOW. Creative Mode team, Vlad and Maria, just launched their Kickstarter campaign for Plenty Pen–the single instrument with pen, pencil, stylus…

I’ve written on the concept of digital inventory previously, but now a company is doing so directly. The basics of the concept are found here, but in short, the idea is to maintain a digital, rather than a physical, inventory of spare parts to reduce costs. Just 3D print the parts when you require them. Two companies have recently taken steps in that direction. 3YOURMIND has developed a service that a company could use to identify existing part designs that could be 3D printed, and their partnership with EOS should bring much profit to both companies and their clients in this endeavor. Another one is UPS, who recently published a…

At a price point that could afford a mid-sized home, it’s understandable why many people choose to just appreciate a Ferrari from a distance rather than as a weekday commuter. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll miss out on sitting in the driver’s seat every day. Through a partnership with Italian outfit Poltrona Frau, the automaker recently gave the old boring desk chair a design overhaul modeled after the same racing-inspired sports car seat seen in their cars. Aptly titled the Cockpit Desk Chair, the sleek and ergonomic bum cushion might not help you get through those spreadsheets or modeling tasks any faster, but you’ll certainly feel a lot…