Nat @ Radar writes – Check out this perception altering post on the Ponoko blog. It really puts the current state of 3D printers in context: they’re now cheaper than laser printers were in 1985. It almost dares you to think of when you first saw a laser printer, and when your company first got […]
A nice essay to freak you out from Kevin Kelly… computing superorganisms… I am not the first, nor the only one, to believe a superorganism is emerging from the cloak of wires, radio waves, and electronic nodes wrapping the surface of our planet. No one can dispute the scale or reality of this vast connectivity. […]
Huh, this really big news – Make 3D printable STL files directly from a Google SketchUp model with CADspan’s plugin… via Fabbaloo. Creating a 3D printing file from a Google SketchUp file has never been easy. Today a new class of 3D printing technology has slashed the time and expense it takes to create a […]
Ryan writes in about creating a handmade newspaper… The complete paper – a four page publication not far off the Berliner size – was distributed this morning at select central London locations. Every word and every image and every mark of any kind in The Manual was drawn by a team of volunteers – mostly […]
RFID peripheral round up @ Touch… via Beyond the Beyond. Pictured above, RFID wine bottle from ThingM (WineM). Plug and play RFID-reading USB peripherals are all the rage, as indicated by a stream of recent product announcements. These readers plug into a PC and make various things happen when they are touched with an RFID […]
Ponoco has a new service where you can hand-draw something, upload a photo of the drawing, and get a “real life product” of your drawing back (in various materials you can select). Photomake [via Boing Boing]
I know 2 people who live in shipping containers and they seem to really like it… “Shipping containers could be ‘dream’ homes for thousands” It was a side trip through a destitute, ramshackle neighborhood in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, that detoured Brian McCarthy from building houses in Albuquerque to an idea to offer the very poor […]
