Between the trends of both designing products outside of a company’s product category and the rise of privatized space exploration, it was only a matter of time before we started seeing designers (and their brands) come out of the woodwork with their own take on spacecraft designs. While well known industrial/concept designers such as Scott…
Creating life-sized objects out of LEGOs is nothing new – but creating life-sized LEGO objects that actually work? Now we’re talking. Love Hulten, a Swedish designer, craftsman and innovator who focuses on fusing modern technology with traditional artisan craft, has recently created the Brix System; a collection of hand crafted modular devices that are custom…
With all of the excitement centered around space exploration as of late – thanks in no small part to Elon Musk’s one-man PR machine – it comes with little surprise that model rocketry has exploded in popularity within the past few years. While hobbyist companies such as Estes Rockets have been developing model rockets for…
It’s no secret that Elon Musk is among one of the few functioning futurists that is single-handedly advancing humanity into the future. The SpaceX founder has not only been busy creating a robotic snake that automagically protrudes from a wall to charge an electric car, developing a Mars transporter that is set to be announced…
While putting 3D printers and other localized manufacturing platforms in gravity-bound homes has presented its own challenges, ongoing efforts to put a full-fledged fabrication lab on the International Space Station has come a lot sooner than most would probably expect. Most recently, the Zero-G 3D printer launched in late September of 2014 and it was…