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…
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. Pollen Announces a $9,000 Multi-Material Desktop 3D Printer for Professionals “The excitement that used to come with each new “revolutionary” desktop 3D printer a few years ago has since quieted down…
Somehow, we were able to chop our way through the tendrils. As they grew back, a vocalizing noise of business lingo, land management deals and making strawberry metropolitans echoed around us–apparently an affect of consuming the entire downtown business district, too many printer cartridges and these links. Kevin Peterson – A contrast of innocence against a worn, ragged world, but with a strength and individually independent spirit rising above. JEWOW – Swiss Beatbox presents JEWOW and his weirdass beatbox sounds, part of the Grand Beatbox Battle 2016, Studio Sessions. Links to more in the description. Emin Asgarov – THe odd and delightfully surreal woodcarvings of Baku-based artist Emin Asgarov. Square…
Unless you’re a true toast and marmalade connoisseur, chances are you pay little mind to your toaster aside from a somewhat considered industrial design that may or may not match the rest of your kitchen appliances. Either way, your toaster is toast. Enter Balmuda the Toaster. Priced at a hefty 24,000 yen ($230 – or approximately 60 loaves of bread), Balmuda the Toaster is a high-tech kitchen gadget that uses steam and calibrated heat cycles to “transform store-bought bread into something that smells, tastes and feels like it popped out of a baker’s oven,” according to Bloomberg’s Reed Stevenson. https://youtu.be/BxLmUBDiKsU Currently, Balmuda – which was founded by a high-school dropout who…
The last time we checked in with Swedish musician Martin Molin, he had just completed building a 3,000–piece wood marble machine that uses 2,000 marbles to ring sweet melodies into our ears. While the original Marble Machine YouTube video has racked up nearly 22 million views since he released it earlier this year, Molin has been busy raising money to build the Marble Machine 2.0, a full sized but transportable Marble Machine that he can tour with along with his band, Wintergatan. More recently, Molin turned his attention to promoting the band with a new music box-based instrument that uses punched paper to play individual notes through what he calls…
When you’re mixing the sweet cream of CAD geometry on the screen like a dairyman on a mission from God, that intense look on your face is enough to make your boss step back for fear of being sucked into the vat of your frothy CAD skills. And then you hear that gasp, the one when they see you driving it all with a 3D mouse. But maybe you don’t have a 3D mouse and you’re still churnin’ NURBS. Well, now may be the time to check out the 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse Enterprise. We’re taking a look at this new model manipulating device today. It’s fit with buttons galore, intelligent function keys, a new high-res, contextual…