Here's a look at the 463L, which has a vastly different design than the civilian version | Continue reading
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Germany's Fraunhofer IML (Institute for Material Flow and Logistics) has developed a novel system for the high-speed transportation of goods within a facility. Called LoadRunners, the system consists of "swarms" of networked, wheeled, Roomba-like drones that zip along the ground. … | Continue reading
Yesterday Arrival, the British electric vehicle startup, released new images of their forthcoming delivery van. It's got a couple of design elements that strike me as strange, see what jumps out at you: Why do you reckon they went with the pocket | Continue reading
Dissatisfied with twin screw vises on the market, Colorado-based woodworker Andrew Klein designed and built his own. Klein's innovative design uses metal gears to provide two different speeds, gearing the screw rotation speed up or down. There's also a "neutral" between the speed … | Continue reading
In a former factory in Cleveland, Ohio is Ray's Mountain Bike Park. First dreamed up in 1996 and realized in 2004, Ray's is a 160,000-square-foot "bicycle Disneyland" that's home to the world's longest indoor mountain bike trail, which runs nearly a mile. Kyle and April | Continue reading
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Between the threat of school shootings and now COVID, the current generation of students really caught some lousy breaks. The images in this Tweet are probably a good solution--having a roomful of students blowing their hearts out amidst an infection that's spread via airborne tr … | Continue reading
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Argentinian manufacturer Trideo makes a 3D printer so large, it comes on wheels. The gigantic Big T has a build area of one meter square, making it large enough to print automobile rims, manufacturing jigs, foundry models for creating sandcasting molds of enormous parts, expansiv … | Continue reading
Sweden in winter has plenty of frozen lakes, best traversed by snowmobile or ice skates. Inventor Simon Sörensen wanted to see if he could create a powered version of the latter, designing and building on the fly. Unlike the sawblade bicycle, Sörensen's prototype actually works. … | Continue reading
A new daily auction site by the founders of Radwood | Continue reading
"A field guide to more than a century of fascinating product and industrial design" | Continue reading
A new daily auction site by the founders of Radwood | Continue reading
In the last entry we looked at product designer Connor Holland's DIY hydroforming technique. If you watched any of the build videos, you probably spotted this workbench in his impossibly tidy shop (yes, that's his shop, not a kitchen!): As you've maybe guessed by seeing the hinge … | Continue reading
With a degree in Product Design from Kingston University, UK-based Connor Holland has adopted that school's "Thinking Through Making" ethos. This led Holland to conduct backyard experiments in DIY hydroforming, with the goal of "discovering interesting new forms for inflated stee … | Continue reading
It may feel like time is running out, but don't fret—here's how to quickly create a thoughtful awards entry | Continue reading
Hydroforming is kind of like blow-molding, except instead of air blowing into plastic, water is pumped at high pressure into aluminum or steel. As the water pressure increases, the steel part is deformed outwards, taking the shape of the mold it's inside of. Hydroforming can be u … | Continue reading
COVID-inspired paranoia about touching things leads to a futuristic interface | Continue reading
Are you always losing Sharpies? Just buy this set of 115 of them | Continue reading
The LaserFactory can build complicated objects that require multiple operations | Continue reading
Technology trends that have emerged since March 2020, and where some tech objectives are being led astray | Continue reading
The original Apple I computer that went on sale in 1976 was essentially a single PC board. By ArnoldReinhold, CC BY-SA 4.0 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak had no employees nor design chops, so it was up to the end user to source a box to keep | Continue reading
"Rubbish Pet Portraits" isn't a promising name for a picture book. But the UK-based guy behind them is obviously more of an artist than he lets on. Hercule van Wolfwinkle (God I hope that's his real name!) writes that last year he was making some "thank you" cards with his | Continue reading
If there's any object whose design has been significantly advanced by the pandemic, it's the facemask. But for all the crowdfunded and corporate-backed designs we've seen, none seems to have addressed the issue of fogging one's eyewear--except this design by Oakley. Their MSK3 ha … | Continue reading
I used to live quite close to this windowless architectural oddity: | Continue reading
Reekon Tools is a Boston-based company started by MIT engineers. Their inaugural product is the M1 Caliber, a measuring tool you're meant to clamp to a miter saw fence: Here's how they envision the tool being used: For repetitive cuts, I can't see this being | Continue reading
"Who…would imagine for a moment that a wooden horse, elephant, or tiger, or any other member of the Noah's Ark family, could be turned in a lathe, like a ball, bowl, or bedpost?" wrote Charles Dickens in an 1865 issue of All the Year Round, the magazine he founded in | Continue reading
It's called Centuripe, and it looks like it's had too much to drink | Continue reading
Hyundai's new design strategy, which involves having no visual continuity across models, is officially reality. This week they unveiled their IONIQ 5, an all-electric CUV that no resemblance to any other Hyundai, and sticks surprisingly close to the 45 concept car it's based on: | Continue reading
The ScanMira is this little 3D-printed doodad that holds a mirror: Used in concert with an iPhone that has face recognition and your 3D scanning app of choice, the ScanMira is simply meant to make holding the phone a little easier while you circumnavigate the object. The | Continue reading
For those curious about tiny house living, here's a way to test-drive it | Continue reading
Crowdfunding platforms were originally intended to let broke creators attract funding. As they've grown, the model has been hijacked by already-established businesses and even rich corporations simply seeking to minimize their risk through pre-orders. Add Amazon to this list. Des … | Continue reading
On my desk I keep some junk mail envelopes and a stack of printouts from recent freelance gigs. I jot notes, ideas or sketches on the back of these. It's hardly an elegant system--in fact it's a bit messy--but at least it extends the utility of the already-spent paper. A | Continue reading
I don't know if there's such a thing as a "standard" jelly donut filler, but if you look at restaurant supply websites, you'll see this one pop up: I'm sure it works fine, but I don't like the UI, where you have to stick the donut onto | Continue reading
The last time we saw a proposed design for the U.S. Postal Service's NGDV (Next Generation Delivery Vehicle), it looked like this: That was in 2018, and the design was so all-over-the-place that industrial designer Michael DiTullo dedicated a sketch video to revising it. However, … | Continue reading
A Seattle-based company called DangerousThings.com sells small NFC, RFID and NTAG chips that you can inject into your body, via a syringe and a big-ass 5mm-diameter needle that they also sell. They also offer this larger, programmable FlexMN Magic NTAG chip that can be "installed … | Continue reading
FODS' fully recyclable Trackout Control Mats keep the mess on the jobsite | Continue reading
Drop an image in, Same Energy feeds you thousands with the same "vibe" | Continue reading
Dominic Wilbrink reveals a clever trick for finding studs (assuming they're behind sheetrock) without needing a stud finder. The low-cost, no-marks-left method uses nothing more than steel wool: As luck would have it, the current DIY household project has me looking for studs...b … | Continue reading
ID professors, here's a potential assignment for your students that they can develop and test while still stuck at home. Urban Clotheslines is a website dedicated to selling hideaway laundry-drying contraptions. While it's kind of fun to browse through their offerings, just to se … | Continue reading
I'd never have guessed that newfangled drawing tools would become a hit category for crowdfunding, but the $84 Stria folding ruler and $120 Iris circle drawing object have erased those doubts. Now there's a new entry, which seems every bit as silly to me: A set of hexagonal ruler … | Continue reading
Modern footwear is multimaterial, with outsoles, midsoles and uppers glued and/or stitched together. Even if the individual materials are recyclable, there's no practical way to separate them at the product's end of life. "As a result, 95% of shoes produced today will end up inci … | Continue reading
Nancy Coyne is a New-York-based licensed wildlife rehabilitation expert. That means she typically takes in young animals whose parents have been killed, and who cannot yet fend for themselves. "Wildlife rehabbing is complete volunteer work," she writes on her website. "You DO NOT … | Continue reading
Here's an idea for a product business with straightforward design requirements and a ready market: Modular display cases for collectibles. The collectible toy market in the U.S. alone does $1.8 billion a year, and the most passionate want to see their purchases at all times, desi … | Continue reading
Should be in the skies by 2022, runs 60 grand | Continue reading
It's currently freezing where I am, but with many Texans still out of power, I'm not gonna complain. I will, however, pine for one of these old-school radiators: Yes, it seems that in Victorian times, manufacturers of cast-iron radiators offered models with built-in warming drawe … | Continue reading
Ironworker Sergi Cadenas brings 3D skills to a 2D medium | Continue reading