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…
These days, it’s nearly impossible to avoid having to use the cloud for at least some sort of file storage—even if it’s just a few photos off of your phone. And for more serious users, juggling huge amounts of important data can be cumbersome without a serious and dedicated Cloud storage account. For those looking for some cloud storage breathing room Degoo Premium brings you 2TB of secured cloud storage accessible from all of your devices with high-speed transfers. That’s more than Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Drive combined! And for a limited time, SolidSmack readers can grab a lifetime subscription to Degoo Premium for just $59.99—that’s 95% off! Features: Send…
A huge bonus for any manufacturer is the ability to upcycle any wasted material from the manufacturing process into entirely new products. We’ve seen this before with discarded cardboard upcycled into surfboards and even sawdust as a result of pencil manufacturing upcycled into Duraflame logs. More recently, tequila brand Jose Cuervo has been to getting in on the environmentally-friendly upcycling movement as a way to increase their overall commitment to being a more sustainable brand. After all, what else to do with thousands of pounds of discarded agave once the tequila has found its way into the bottles? You team up with Fender to make a badass guitar is what.…
With such a wide variety of camera lenses available to us these days, it’s easy to overlook the details that go into creating each and every precision-engineered “glass.” From the ultra wide-angle 24mm f/1.4L for expansive landscape shots to the behemoth 800mm f/5.6L monsters used to capture high detail from a distance, each and every lens carries its own set of unique design parameters for achieving that Kodak Moment. And while we can gain a better understanding of the complex engineering that goes into creating the lenses by looking at impressive cross-section photos, the best way would be to build one ourselves—or watch professional camera maker Mats Wernerdsson. Starting quite…
While the beloved Raspberry Pi is perfect for lightweight (and cheap!) computing tasks, it is far from ideal for heavier jobs typically done on more robust ARM-based laptops. But what if you could have the same operating power of a laptop in the same versatile package as a Raspberry Pi? The answer would likely be the new $239 HiKey 960 board from Huawei. Based on the octa-core Kirin 960 chip—the same chip used in the Huawei Mate 9 smartphone—the HiKey 960 technically operates as efficiently as a modern high-end smartphone (it is also used in Porsche Design models). In other words, while the HiKey 960 has 3GB of LPDDR4 RAM,…
This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist knocks you in the pop sockets with head-boppin’ groove tuneage to help propel you through the work week in style. Whether you find yourself inking markers until they’re dry, grinding material through a bandsaw, or working that 3D geometry all day, consider these fresh tracks as a tool for your process. This week we’ll start things off with “Wake” from Triptides and work our way through tracks from Gold Celeste, Jamaica Queens, Christopher Owens, and others before wrapping up with “Forever Underfoot” from Aan. Have suggestions? As always, let us know what you listen to, what you want to hear and what tunes get…