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. Each Monday, we’ll 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. Be sure to check in each Monday morning for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack.…
Don your favorite bathrobe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this week’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. The Weekend Reader features a handful of the most interesting articles featured on the ‘Smack over the past week ranging from tips and tricks to inspirational designs, processes, and more. So lay back, relax and take a load off while reading the top ten stories on SolidSmack this past week. Oh and uh…don’t forget to shed some much-needed sunlight on your face, too. Amazon Launches Virtual STEM Club Subscription Featuring Monthly Projects Handpicked by Experts Every once in a while, a new business model comes along that totally disrupts the status quo and changes…
Netherlands-based 3D4Makers seems to have broken through a major barrier to producing unusual 3D print filaments in engineering materials with a new production system. The secret to their venture is a new filament extrusion system that differs significantly from typical filament production operations. But let’s see how most filament production is done. Most filament production is accomplished by precisely melting high-grade plastic pellets and pushing the soft plastic through a precision nozzle. But the two most important aspects of the production occur after this relatively easy stage. To achieve a consistently shaped and constant diameter filament, the production system must carefully adjust both the speed of the plastic flow and…
They fought off the abundance of nibbles. From left and right they came, wearing their customized little hats. Should you try to grab one and put it on your head, your fate was sealed. You would be punished unless, by chance, you were able to make your way through them to what they swore to protect, all the way, to take these links. Gregory Euclide – Wonderfully amazing reliefs that mix together an array of materials from foam and moss to acrylic and seeds. A handful of surreal installations as well. Fabric and Skin – translated into a digital mesh. A fashion visual experiment by Tobias Gremmler for Osage Gallery during…
While smartphones and the Cloud have made note taking and inspiration gathering easier than ever, effectively organizing all of that new incoming information has been lackluster at best. Although robust note-taking apps like Evernote and even native note apps on iOS and Android perform all of the basic functions, making logical sense of it all has largely involved jumbling everything together into even more notes or lists—thus, repeating the process. Such is the premise behind the recently-launched Milanote app for design professionals. Billed as “the Evernote for creatives,” the freemium app allows users to organize various notes and multimedia snaps into cohesive information trees on a virtually infinite workspace; so…
From mechanical wings to jet packs, man’s desire to fly stretches back centuries. But, like flying cars and teleportation, it’s a concept that’s still just beyond our grasp. But for the particularly gutsy extreme sports enthusiast, Hoversurf’s Scorpion 3 Hoverbike just might carry over any fleeting flying desires in the meantime. Built as a combination between a motorcycle and a quadcopter drone, the 265-pound electric-powered vehicle is capable of reaching heights of 33 feet at a top speed of 30 MPH. And while it may be stable enough to stay in the air (indoors at least) thanks to a custom-built software to limit its range and velocity, there’s no saying…