If you’re an audiophile who cringes at the site of sound coming from a mobile device, your day might just get a few decibels better. You want quality and stunning audio even if that means paying top dollar. Hult, a manufacturer based in Los Angeles, has a new high performance wireless speaker called the Pavilion and their hope is that it will stand up to other Hi-Fi speakers on the market. It’s a wireless speaker. (what else is new), but the thing that makes this speaker so different is how it’s made.
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. This New Scissor Design Makes Regular Scissors Look Totally Lame “We’re on a cutting kick, with the Ergo Kiwi knife last week and now a new take on the good ol’…
When Harley Earl popularized the concept vehicle in the 1950s, it was used as a way for automakers to showcase new stylings and technologies – most of which were years ahead of any feasible production date if they even made it to production at all. In more recent decades, auto manufacturers have pulled out all the stops and have used presentations of the one-off prototypes at auto shows to showcase their refined vision of the future of the automobile – no matter how absurd or unrealistic. Scheduled to debut at Milan Design Week on April 12th, Toyota has flipped that mentality on its head in favor of a handmade vehicle that celebrates…
With the recent release of the Oculus Rift, it’s become clear that the age of consumer VR headsets is now upon us and it could only be a matter of time before “plugging in” to a virtual experience is scarily more exciting and immersive than what could be feasible without death or injury in real life. Aiming to make light of this modern paradox, Google has made the (real) human experience “new” again for April Fools’ Day with the announcement of Google Cardboard Plastic, “the world’s first actual reality headset.” As a product that promises to “combine everything you love about virtual reality headsets with everything you love about reality,”…
While most people prefer to park their car on the street in favor of using their garage as a workshop or walk-in utility closet, stuntman and woodworker Ben Tardif had other plans: he converted his entire garage into a giant marble rollercoaster. Called Marble Mountain, the ‘still under construction’ marble machine consists of 25 sections that mesh together to form one large kinetic sculpture that requires a minimum of 250 marbles at a time just to run properly. Similar to quirky hole designs on a mini-golf course, each of the 25 sections has a theme that plays into how the marble interacts with that particular section; it jumps at the…
When it went off the air last month after 15 successful seasons over 13 years, most people thought that hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman were hanging up their MythBusters hats for good. While we may not be seeing Savage and Hyneman personally behind the MythBusters blast shield anytime soon, the franchise itself is being brought back into a new reality TV show in the form of a Search for the Next MythBusters. Starting with 15 candidates chosen from an open casting call, the show will revolve around a series of MythBusters-esque experiments and challenges that will ultimately lead to the next pair of hosts for the popular show. “It…