As far as factory tours go, the LEGO Inside Tour at the LEGO production facility in Billund, Denmark exists in a league of its own. Assuming that you can grab a spot on one of the four scheduled LEGO Inside Tour weekend dates that take place in May and June of each year, the price per person is DKK 14.500 – approximately $2,200 – not including travel expenses. Granted, the in-depth tour does include a two-night stay at Hotel LEGOLAND, but for those that simply want to see some juicy injection molding action, this factory tour is best left to diehard LEGO fans. It’s no wonder, then, that the LEGO legal…

Botzen Design Studio will have a 2-day, hands-on Model Making Workshop Saturday, June 25 – Sunday, June 26th. It all happens at the Botzen Design Studio in Southfield, Michigan (northwest Detroit).

Unless carrying a heavy DSLR and a pack of lenses across your back is your idea of a fun time, chances are you depend on a smartphone for what are arguably less-than-desirable photos of your favorite moments. But what if getting outstanding results from your photographs with proper depth of field and shutter speed settings was as simple as clicking on different parts of a photo after it’s been uploaded to your computer? No – we’re not talking about Photoshop wizardry here. Thankfully, plenoptic light field photography cameras, which capture both the intensity of light from within a scene and the direction that the light rays are traveling in space, make…

Monocolor 3D prints are so dull-looking; that’s why many people paint or finish them. But what if you could do so with the world’s darkest material?

Raise of hands. Who has rebuilt an engine? How about a Flathead V-8 engine? Ahh, the Ford Flatty. Likely the most iconic engine of its time, if not all time, and certainly the most powerful when it came out in 1932 as the Ford V-8.

By day, Wataru Kami is a concept artist at a production company in Tokyo, Japan. By night, he is a seasoned hardware tinkerer with one hand on the keyboard and the other holding a soldering iron. More recently, the Japanese designer put his two passions together to create what is surely one of the most useful computer peripherals you can buy for less than $30, the BrushKnob. The result of over a year of sketching during breaks at work and developing proof of concept prototypes at home in the evenings, the BrushKnob is a dead-simple control device that allows digital creatives to intuitively operate creative application tools via a single…