Have you ever surrounded yourself in wood building blocks, then jumped out and scared the cleaning lady? No? It’s good fun. The only thing that would make it better is these. This is the Blockitecture Garden City building set. They smell of pine wood and are the brainchild of James Paulius, an artist who believes that building design products should integrate the individual with his existing environment, and thus help him enhance creativity, like when you cocoon yourself inside them and frighten people.

Forget the Apple smartwatch. How about a watch, with a tourbillon, that’s almost completely 3D printed? Swiss engineer Christopher Laimer has you covered. Laimer has created the world’s first fully functional 3D printed winding watch. As if that wasn’t impressive enough, it uses a tourbillon, a marker of high-end watchmaking developed in 1795 by famed French-Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet to counter the effects of gravity.

Don your favorite bathrobe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this week’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. The Weekend Reader features a handful of the most interesting articles featured on the ‘Smack over the past week ranging from tips and tricks to inspirational designs, processes, and more. So lay back, relax and take a load off…

A rabbit with a stinger? Never had such a creature shown itself, but when the bolts fell, nothing but embers, a faint crackling and its growl filled the room. We thought using them as shields would save us, their backskin thick as an ox hoof, but it seemed that nothing could stop its claws soaked…