It’s been nearly four years since WobbleWorks LLC. screamed onto the scene via Kickstarter and blew everybody away with the 3Doodler –– AKA “The World’s First 3D Printing Pen” –– to the tune of $2.3 million. Since then, the small company has maintained a small but loyal following of artists and retailers including the reputable MoMA Store. And while the original pen has seen numerous iterations over the past few years including the 3Doodler 2.0, the 3Doodler Create and the 3Doodler Start, its potential as a serious design tool never took off. Instead, the tool has remained more or less a modern toy for young creatives. Introduced today, the 3Doodler PRO…

Flash tats and metallic jewelry tattoos are all the rage among the fashionistas. Why? Well, they can be used to aesthetically augment traditional metal jewelry or make you stand out from normal tattooed people. And you know what? Turns out they can also be used as on-skin electronic connected interfaces for any number of devices or applications. Researchers from MIT’s Media Lab (in partnership with Microsoft Research) have designed what they’ve dubbed as DuoSkin–a metal leaf temporary tattoo that can be embedded with electronics to form a sort of a body-based circuit. That circuit can then be used to interface with mobile devices or PCs through the body-based trackpad or…

While known primarily for creating products that digitize analog gestures via a pressure-sensitive stylus, Wacom’s focus as of late has been on extending this experience back over to native analog tools –– yes, the original plain old paper and pen. Utilizing electromagnetic resonance (EMR) technology to bridge the gap between the physical and digital, the company introduced the Bamboo Spark last year to high praise thanks to its ability to create an analog sketching experience that could be uploaded and saved to the cloud for digital applications and storage. This morning, the company announced two updates to their “smartpad” lineup with the Bamboo Slate and Bamboo Folio models as well…

It’s not even worth debating whether sketches created by “finger painting” on a tablet with your big stubby nubs are worth using or not. Unless you’re just laying out a few simple lines, a stylus is almost always necessary for achieving something with a finished sketch quality –– particularly one with pressure sensitivity. As the first stylus connected to Adobe’s Creative Cloud platform, the Adonit Jot Touch with Pixelpoint Stylus is not only a modern stylus with pinpoint precision across 2,048 of pressure sensitivity, it’s also able to intelligently and quickly pull your files from the cloud across multiple devices for working quickly and efficiently. And the best part? For a…

Among the small explosion of new 3D print materials is a substance you may not have considered: ASA. ASA, or Acrylonitrile Styrene Acrylate, is yet another thermoplastic sometimes used in 3D printing. The intention of using ASA is to improve on the deficient qualities of ABS plastic, a very commonly used substance in 3D printing. ABS is popular because it offers reasonable strength and is stable at temperatures typically encountered in many real-life situations. PLA plastic, on the other hand, becomes soft at temperatures you might encounter in a vehicle left in the sun. That’s definitely not good for any PLA parts. ABS is the answer in those situations. However,…

If the Kickstarter video for the successfully funded Fidget Cube is any indication, fidgeting is a serious problem –– but it just may also be the key to increased focus, too. While some may resort to aggressively folding gum wrappers or twirling a pen between their fingers, Fidget Cube creators Matthew and Mark McLachlan have effectively combined what they think are six of the most satisfying “fidgeting sensations” into one ridiculously simple device. In total, the small cube enables antsy fidgeters the ability to click buttons, glide a joystick, flip a switch, rub a smooth worry stone-like surface, spin a dial and finally, roll a ball or built-in gears: An…