This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist knocks you in the pop sockets with head-boppin’ groove tunage to help propel you through the work week in style. Whether you find yourself inking markers until they’re dry, grinding material through a bandsaw or working that 3D geometry all day, consider these tracks as a tool for your process. This week we’ll start off with “Butter the Soul” from Cornershop before working our way through some Blood Orange, Darkside, Beck, The Pixies and others before wrapping up with the “Life is Strange” from T. Rex. Have suggestions? As always, let us know what you listen to, what you want to hear and what…

If you thought 3D printing was just for medical ingenuity and machine part manufacturing, you’re wrong. You can also make really, really creepy dolls or exceptionally cute, jointed robots, and Sonia Verdu is there to help.

Having created everything from a jet-powered go-kart and the world’s fastest pram to an ejector bed and even a hydroformed suit designed to be worn while being shot at with fireworks, you would think inventor Colin Furze has seen and done it all. But, as somebody who consistently makes a point of going further and higher (literally) than his previous inventions, Furze’s latest brings one of the most sought-after video games into the real world: Jacob Frye’s wrist-mounted rope launcher from Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. The Victorian-era game, which was released just last week, relies on the rope launcher for moving Frye, the game’s protagonist, around mid-1800s London. “A fully functional…

An eye, no three, past in front of the crack made by its last wood-splitting hit. There hadn’t been any of their kind pass through here in months, so it was about due. All we had to do now is wait. You usually don’t attack someone when their back is turned–it’s proper killing etiquette–but with these, once you saw the white of the nerve fibers between the metal spine, that’s when you jump out, jab your hand deep inside and pull out these links. Leon Tukker – An incredible amount of work from student/freelance artist who has a particular talent for drawing intricate structures in space or on a distant…

After many requests and, since it’s all shiny and new, we figured, meh, why not? SolidSmack is now available on Apple News from the convenience of your iPhone or iPad. Just think of how classy you’ll look now, browsing SolidSmack on your iPad while standing in line for that coffee, or the amount of stories you’ll be able to catch up on during that extra long bathroom break. Fist bump. How do I find SolidSmack on Apple News? It’s quite simple. Ask Siri to put some mother lovin’ SolidSmack on your Apple News App stat, or open the app yourself and search for ‘SolidSmack’ or ‘Awesome’ (or any combination of…

While Richard Branson is attempting to wage war on worker’s boredom, one young entrepreneur is convinced that if you are bored at work, you’d might as well be bored and healthy. The new Perch desk is the “Revolutionary Sit-to-Stand Desk” that promises to be the most customizable, affordable and quickly interchangeable desk of its kind on the market. Let’s see how it works and how it compares.