I am currently certain that we are approaching the apex of our societal laziness. I would be surprised if future generations will even bother to walk or eat for themselves (they will probably create a button which will call a robot to do these things for them).
Time for another round of apps that cover the spectrum of your beloved mobile device, be it iPhone, Android or Windows! The Weekly App Smack is the best of design and productivity apps (and maybe a couple of fun ones, too) for the busy design or engineering professional and this week we have a list sure to make you more efficient. Do you have an app suggestion that has made your life easier or changed up your workflow? Let us know in the comments below or send it in to tips@www.solidsmack.com. Hit it! Shyp “Shyp is the easiest way to ship anything. Get the lowest price on every shipment. We…
To date, there hasn’t been a desktop 3D Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) machine brought to market. There have been kits created and there are others in development. Add the Sinterit Laser 3D Printer to the list. The start-up out of Kraków, Poland launched the desktop device at Euromold 2015 with examples of prints from the machine and a sales pitch to leave one giddy… and a bit skeptical. Why?
Whether we’re at work or just going out on the town, we all carry some items with us–a wallet, a smartphone or even a pocketknife. If you’re like me, that knife goes everywhere with you, but I must admit, my Benchmade Adamas is a little too big to be classified as EDC (Everyday Carry). For those with the same problem or for those looking to go with something a little different, Zootility Tools may have what you’re looking for.
After having been inspired to extend storytelling media beyond two-dimensional space and into the physical world with interactive components, industrial designer Eun Young Park quickly found that a category of construction set was missing from the arsenal of today’s STEM toys: one that teaches kinetic design. Created as a part of her MA thesis at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Park’s LINKKI kinetic toy construction set is based on planar linkage mechanisms that lets both kids and designers design simple movements and create various kinetic projects with ease. In total, the set consists of a number of different arms and circles that feature different connecting features and…
When it comes to tools for refining loose design concepts, the usual suspects – pens, paper, clay, and the occasional Bedazzler – tend to suffice. But while these tools all work fine and well, “sketching” at full scale to create room-sized objects isn’t necessarily something that comes with ease – until now at least. Designed and engineered by a team of researchers at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut in Germany, the Protopiper is a handheld ‘3D printer’ that lets users easily and quickly create full-scale wireframe prototypes for large objects. To create the wireframe models, the Protopiper works in tandem with custom software to translate wireframe versions of…