Comprising of 3,000 wood pieces, 2,000 marbles, and the patience of a 16th Century Zen Master, the Wintergartan Marble Machine by Swedish musician Martin Molin is certainly unlike any other instrument you’ve seen before. Although the machine looks like a highly-complicated loom that could knit you the most satisfying sweater ever, it is instead a…
Used widely during World War II, the legendary Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was a four-engine heavy bomber used for strategic bombing and was beloved for its ability to sustain devastating battle damage and bringing crews back safely. Today, for $9,500, airplane fanatics can own one of three original unused propeller blades from the B-17 that…
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 an incredible take on the electric car from Morgan, a spiffy sword fighting app for samurai fans, how to make an anvil…
In 1995, I got my hands on some crazy future tech, an IBM ThinkPad Pen Computer. The first wave of pen tablets had arrived. As it goes however, when a college student needs money for a new drum kit, they sell cool things to pilots who pay a lot for that kind of stuff. I did buy that drum kit. I didn’t think it would be 20 years until I used another ‘Pen Computer’ again, nor did I think it would be another ThinkPad. Surprisingly, both have happened. Now, I’m sitting at the local coffee show with a shiny Lenovo ThinkPad P40 Yoga blasting it’s backlit LED beams into my oculars and a pen in hand. These tablets have come quite a way, and deserves a thorough review, but here’s a quick breakdown and my first impressions.
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 new or updated design and productivity apps (and maybe a couple of fun ones, too) for the busy design or engineering professional and this week we…