When it comes to tent camping, there’s a fine line between what can be a memorable weekend away or what can quickly turn into a disastrous nightmare that exposes you to the elements. Of course, ease of setup, resistance to the elements, and portability are the prime factors when it comes to tents, so it’s no surprise that one designer recently looked towards nature for inspiration: a mollusk shell. Designed in much the same fashion as a pram hood with one side that can fold back and forth, designer Ru Hartwell’s Mollusc can fold open in either direction using the ingenious side hubs. The Mollusc is manufactured in two different…
Don your favorite bathrobe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a multi-angled review of the new iPad Pro from the perpsective of an industrial designer, a new 3D scanning directory from SketchFab, a Star Wars takeover on our Google accounts, a portable solution for customizing products 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.
They burnt on days we didn’t have the light. Risking our hairs and skins, we gathered close. The candles were all we had, and the nimphs, oh how they liked to blow them out. That was until the CandleMan came to visit. Large, made mostly of wax and wick, they feared him, as did we, but he would stay a spell, light his arms and tell us stories of these links. Krešimir Jelušić – A commanding use of perspective and symmetrical structures with a mix or the organic and hard surface modeling. Warped Spacetime – Einstein’s Gravitational Theory turns 100 and this is the illustrated video that almost does it…
Last we heard from Luxion, the makers of KeyShot were arching back to prepare a knuckle sandwich of rendering KAPOW! for their latest release, KeyShot 6. Well, the troop has held true to their promise and has indeed unveiled the most powerful level-up in company history with a host of new features. For this release, Luxion pulled out all the stops and included brand new lighting algorithms, new material libraries and perhaps most importantly, a new node-based system for users to craft their own materials called Material Graph. Like we first reported back in May, the Material Graph is a part of a larger effort in KeyShot 6 to give…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from the world’s first and only portable replacement public basketball hoop net, a new line of desk accessories made from plastic waste, how to create your own morning routine machine, David Bowie’s latest, and more… Ready? Let’s go! This week we look at: DESIGN Blacknet “The world’s first and only portable replacement public basketball hoop net…” Müll “Developed a new process where the chaotic beauty of recycling is preserved and incorporated into thoughtfully designed objects…” APPS…
Over the last several years, drones have graduated from being primarily used by the military as a spy or hunter/killer platform to being employed by everyone from corporations to civil authorities. What are they up to? They do everything from delivering packages to crime fighting. Now, a group of engineers from UNL’s Nimbus Lab is developing drones that can be used as a tool to help firefighters gain an edge over the ever-increasing wildfire epidemic that seems to hit every summer across much of the US.