Jumped off the ledge, the hammer fell, the blast rang out and the monstrosity of a caterpillar was no more. Usually smaller, but this one had been feasting. We hadn’t determined what the supplement may have been quite yet, but there were hints and a small trail leading back to these links. Alexis Rives – An array of style in characters with brilliant bits of detail and oddity that totally draw you in. What a treat. Whatsgoodly – The search engine for anonymous campus polling and oddly entertaining way to find out more about millennials. All-in-One – For the messaging maven, a messenger app (for Chrome) that allows you to…

You know when you cried into that bucket of bolts because you couldn’t find the matching hardware? Those were sad, rough times. It’s almost as bad as when you stared into that bucket of PDM space searching for that one thing, that one guy modeled, that one time, that would never be needed again, but is now definitely needed again. Shouldn’t 3D models be easy to find nowadays? For real, with all the PDM and meta-data and geometry and desktop super-computering we have, and have had for years? We’ve even seen many a shape search technology come in with a ‘WOW’ and go out with a ‘MEH’. However, Autodesk believes…

There’s more than a handful of reasons why the humble bicycle is an object of obsession for many an industrial designer or engineer. Aside from the zillions of proportion variations, material combinations and CMF studies that go into the design process, it is also one of the few objects that can be designed for users to feel a seamless relationship with. More recently, UK-based product designer Jan Waterston channeled this bicycle–inspired relationship between user and object in the form of The Velo Chair, a bent plywood chair inspired by the shapes of modern bicycle designs. “(The) relationship between body and object is echoed in bicycle design with tubes flowing seamlessly…

As if Kickstarter hasn’t already made getting side projects launched easier than ever, Amazon is now extending their support to project creators with, well, everything that Amazon offers as the largest global marketplace. Launching this week, the new Kickstarter Collection is now available on the company’s Amazon Launchpad digital storefront for hardware startups and crowdfunded projects. While Amazon Launchpad has existed on its own for the past year supporting hardware startups, extending an arm towards products that are the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign will help project creators keep the sales funnel full long after a successful campaigns come to an end. At launch, the Kickstarter Collection includes more…

A newly invented process could enable large-scale use of nano-printed metal materials. 3D printing is most often done at a visible scale, but for many years researchers have sought methods of printing materials at a nano scale to take advantages of molecular effects and microscopic structures. While many of these experiments have been successful, the problem has been an inability to scale the results to larger sized objects that can be used for practical purposes. One example we wrote of last year shows what’s possible at small sizes, but that’s where it ends: small prints. Now, new research from Virginia Tech has apparently solved this issue, at least for one…

When it comes to quality Hi-Fi speakers the phrase “shove it in the corner” doesn’t necessarily come to mind, but that’s exactly what Montreal-based Nepsu wants you to do with their Triangle Hi-Fi speaker. Actually, the speaker can be placed almost anywhere, however a corner provides that extra boost for a corner loading effect that will help amplify the sound by an extra 9 dB. Nepsu designed the Triangle with customization in mind. Options include different colored, magnetic faceplates (9 all together), choice of acoustic cloth and choice of case color and, of course, power cables. Suffice it to say, the Triangle can be matched with just about any décor…