I would stand, but my spine is fused to this ergonomic office chair. We sit so much. There’s an article every few days about why sitting will kill you. No one wants to die in sitting position, so all sorts of companies are banking on options to put your fears of a pulmonary embolism to rest. Uprite Ergo wants to be the ultimate solution, and their design and price point may just make that happen.

Although they only just introduced their first official housing for their popular microcomputer in late June, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has been keeping their momentum moving towards creating usable miniature computers. This time around, however, the Foundation took their focus off of the board and the housing in favor of something that’s become near impossible to miss these days: a touchscreen. The official Raspberry Pi touchscreen, which costs just $60, is the result of two years of searching from the foundation’s Director of Software, Gordon Hollingworth. “Two years ago, I began the process of looking for a simple, embeddable display for the Raspberry Pi,” explains Hollingworth. “I honestly believed it…

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. This week we have not one but TWO powerful manual camera apps for iPhone, and not one but TWO updates to the popular Google Hangouts app for mobile devices and more. Do you have an app suggestion that has made your life easier or changed up your workflow? Let…

You know how Spotify works, right? You pay a subscription fee, then get earfuls of streaming music. We’ve seen the same idea applied to nearly every type of media. So, why not 3D Printing? Enter Kwambio, a new service set up to allow you to stream designer products, interact, customize and print. You can’t download the file, but the original designer makes 70% of what you pay and you get a high quality, customized print.

This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist brings an entirely new playlist of face-melting great music to help propel you through those laborious, tedious design tasks for the next few days. So whether you find yourself inking markers until they’re dry, grinding material through a bandsaw or flying through a CAD model, consider these tracks as a tool for your process. This week we’ll start off with “Les Fleur” from 4Hero and work our way through everything from the Eels, Land of the Loop and Electric Guest, to Caribou, Thundercat, Radiohead and others before wrapping up with “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings” from Father John Misty. As always – do you have…

Co-Founder Erik deBrun of Redshift Sports is an avid cyclists; this is his team’s second cycling related product and just like their first (the Switch Aero System – previously featured on SolidSmack) personal experiences and issues as cyclists gave birth to the ShockStop.