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Autodesk to Offer "Comprehensive 3D Modeling in the Cloud" with Forthcoming Fusion 360

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Autodesk has announced Fusion 360, "the world's first comprehensive cloud-based 3D modeling offering." The emphasis is on collaboration via the cloud, as well as refining the UX.

3D Industrial and Mechanical Design in the Cloud A comprehensive product design tool geared toward small business professionals, Autodesk Fusion 360 capabilities span all aspects of industrial and mechanical design, melded with anytime, anywhere access to data, collaborative and social development capabilities the cloud has to offer. Autodesk Fusion 360 also connects to advanced capabilities such as large scale mockup, simulation, PLM and rendering.

Next Generation User Experience
Autodesk Fusion 360 offers a radically different user experience through an intuitive interface that conforms to the role and level of user expertise. Autodesk Fusion 360 provides built-in guidance to novice users to speed the learning curve, and the ability to turn off guidance and access deeper functionality for design experts. Regardless of their level of expertise, users can start designing in a matter of minutes and begin to leverage Autodesk Fusion 360's integrated social collaboration tools.

Redpoint Studios, a New England based industrial design and product engineering consultancy, recently adopted Autodesk Fusion 360 to help their clients bring compelling new products to market faster. "The learning curve is phenomenal. In a matter of days I was modeling blends and transitions that would take months, if not years, of skill building to achieve in a NURBS modeler," said Matthew Harris, Industrial Designer, Redpoint Studios, LLC. "The potential for this product is huge and I can't wait to see what's next."

Enough verbiage, we're sure you just want to see it. Teaser videos are all that's available right now, and we're not sure why these are three separate videos—they all ought to be combined in our opinion—but here's what we've got:

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Call for Entries: Metropolis' Next Generation Competition

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With 1.13 billion people worldwide with unique needs, it's becoming even more important to create design solutions that empower, advance and include groups often overlooked in the design process. Metropolis Magazine's annual Next Generation Design Competition encourages designers to consider solutions that help a broad range of people to live better lives, beautifully.

With $10,000 USD in prize money for the winner, the competition strives for solutions, "at all scales, from systems, experiences, places, to spaces, products, or any area that needs to be made inclusive and empowering." Think of your aging parents, grandparents, younger siblings and peers. With a deadline of February 18, 2013, the opportunity is too good to pass. Learn more about the competition here!

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World's Tallest Prefab Building to Rise in Brooklyn

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Wow: I can't believe it's been over a year and a half since I first learned that Bruce Ratner—public enemy #1 for many Brooklynites and blue collar workers alike—was obsessed with prefabricated building construction. I suppose it shouldn't have surprised me, as he's a bit of a Scrooge (per the Times: "[prefabrication] could lead to more affordable housing, or it could simply mean greater profits for the developer"), but his obsession was reportedly inspired by the YouTube video below:

Of course, labor practices and building codes alike are notoriously lax in Asia, and so Ratner's vision remained a dream... until now. His development company, Forest City Ranter, announced that they'd reached an agreement with city construction unions to move forward with the 32-story tower. (According to the Times, union factory workers will earn an average annual salary of $55,000, 25% less than union construction workers; another often-cited figure puts a carpenter's pay at $35/hr. vs $85/hr., respectively.)

...next spring, 125 workers at the factory in Building 293 at the Navy Yard will begin churning out 930 modules—typically 14 feet wide, 35 feet long and 10 feet tall—equipped with floors, walls, electric lines, plumbing, kitchens, toilets, exterior façades and even towel racks.

"This is more than innovation," said MaryAnne Gilmartin, executive vice president of Forest City Ratner. "We've cracked a code that will allow us to utilize cutting-edge technology to introduce greater affordability, more sustainability and world-class architecture."

She said modular was suitable for both subsidized and luxury housing. Forest City says it hopes that other urban builders will use the technology. The company also sees a market for building prefabricated bathroom "pods," which slide into the modules, and can also be used by conventionally built hospitals and other institutions.

A variety of modules, which come in different shapes, together with various glass and colored exterior panels, will break up the mass of the building so that it does not look like a Lego tower.

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Atlantic Yards has had a tortuous history for the past decade or so, since Forest City Ratner first set its sights on the site in 2003. After Frank Gehry proved to pricy for the original design of the sprawling mixed-use complex, Ratner brought in SHoP architects to design the arena and residential towers; ARUP was instrumental in realizing the prefabrication process, lending their engineering expertise to the ambitious undertaking. Again, per the Times:

Sixty percent of the work will be done in the factory, which Forest City believes will save as much as 20 percent on construction costs and cut the delivery time to 18 months, from 28 months.

Ms. Gilmartin of Forest City warned that the first tower may be only marginally less expensive than a conventional tower, but that there should be increasing efficiency with each building at the site.

The New York Observerreports that the 32-story highrise, which goes by the uninspired codename B2, will come in at over 50% taller than the current record-holder for world's tallest prefabricated building, a 20-story hotel in England. Construction on the tower—the first of 15 planned modular buildings—exactly a week before Christmas (insert joke about big packages here), and may well serve as a test case for the future of construction in cities the world over.

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Scanadu's Health-Monitoring Product Lineup Lets You 'Check Your Body as Often as You Check Your E-mail'

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If you feel ill, there's a few things you can do: Put a hand on your forehead to see if it's hot, try to decide if you just ate a bad piece of codfish, maybe stick a thermometer in your mouth. In our homes that's about it, and the thermometer—which was invented in the 19th century—is probably the most recent consumer product design we have to monitor our own health. And that's absurd, particularly when we're all carrying supercomputers in our pocket for making Facebook updates and the like.

A company called Scanadu aims to rectify this, by providing health-monitoring products that link to your smartphone. The company launched just over a year ago, and just this morning specific descriptions (though not a lot of images) of their three products have been revealed:

Scandu SCOUT Scanadu SCOUT is a small, speedy and affordable device that puts vital health information at your fingertips. Simply hold Scanadu SCOUT to the temple, and in less than ten seconds it will accurately read more than five vital signs. Data collected by the Scanadu SCOUT is uploaded to the Scanadu smartphone app via Bluetooth to show:

- Pulse transit time
- Heart rate (pulse rate)
- Electrical heart activity
- Temperature
- Heart rate variability
- Blood oxygenation (pulse oximetry)

"Scanadu SCOUT lets users explore the diagnostic abilities of a clinic and conveniently puts them in your smartphone for less than $150," said [company founder Walter] de Brouwer. "It's like having a doctor in your pocket."

Project ScanaFlo
Project ScanaFlo is a low-cost tool that uses the smartphone as a urine analysis reader. Designed to be sold over-the-counter as a disposable cartridge, Project ScanaFlo will test for pregnancy complications, preeclampisa, gestational diabetes, kidney failure and urinary tract infections. For pregnant women, Project ScanaFlo will be the first to provide a healthfeed throughout the duration of a pregnancy.

Project ScanaFlu
Project ScanaFlu is a low-cost tool that uses the smartphone as a reader to assess cold-like symptoms quickly, removing the guess work from early diagnosis of upper respiratory infections. By testing saliva, the disposable cartridge will provide early detection for Strep A, Influenza A, Influenza B, Adenovirus and RSV.

Here's what the devices promise:

Looks pretty awesome, no? But we'll have a while yet to wait; Scanadu says all three will be ready by the end of 2013.

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An Intriguing, if Somewhat Mysterious, Self-Chilling Can

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The Chill Can is a package design with a twist: If the name didn't tip you off, the thing chills itself. Using a "Micro Cooling" technology which has reportedly been in the works for nearly two decades, the can uses onboard CO2 to somehow drop the contents by 30 degrees when the user hits the button. (The curious among you can attempt to decipher the scientific explanation here.)

So how does this impact the environment? I suppose if it were absolutely widespread enough to make a dent in the production of styrofoam coolers, that'd be one thing. But the terse description on the Chill Can website under "Environment" is decidedly not reassuring: "It has been tried, tested, and found to be environmentally safe." Ah, we see! Awesome!

The Chill Can recently won the Editor's Choice Award for Packaging Design at Supply Side West, an industry tradeshow. To that accolade, however, I must confer my own award of Worst Promotional Videos Ever:

Want a better look at that button? Here you go:

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Student Creates Solar Panels from a Sustainable Material: Human Hair

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I'm that guy who looks all over the place for my sunglasses... then realizes they're perched on top of my head. But Nepalese science student Milan Karki is the guy who looks around for a renewable energy source, and discovers the solution is on top of his head. And mine. And yours. Karki, you see, has discovered how to make solar panels using human hair.

Karki, just 18, comes from a rural, unelectrified village in Nepal where residents "are living the life of the stone age even in the 21st century." From a young age he experimented with trying to generate electricity via hydropower, but had to give it up as the money required to fund the project was impossible to attain. Karki's parents did, however, have enough money to get him an education, allowing him to avoid the illiteracy rates of his neighbors.

He was then able to read books, and a Stephen Hawking tome hipped him to the fact that human hair could generate static electricity. Turning the idea over in his head, he "realised that Melanin was one of the factors in conversion of energy," he told The Daily Mail. His imagination thus (pardon the pun) sparked, he set about seeing if the naturally-occurring pigment could be used to generate electricity in another way.

Milan and four of his Kathmandu classmates tried to create a human-hair solar panel as a lark—and it worked. With a panel roughly the size of a checkers board, they were able to generate 18 watts of energy, enough to power a CFL or charge a phone.

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By using hair in place of silicon—one of the pricey parts of a solar panel—they were able to keep the cost down to $38 per panel. And that's for a one-off; Karki estimates that in mass production the price would be half that, which makes it about 25% of the cost of a conventional solar panel of similar output.

Best of all, hair is easy to find. (Sunglasses, though, are a bitch.)

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A Pedal-Powered Packmule: Exclusive Interview with Donky Bike Designer Ben Wilson

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Well, we started this week with an ultra high-end racing bike concept and we're going to end up with something entirely different... or at least the opposite end of the bicycle spectrum. The spirit of the Oregon Manifest lives on in Ben Wilson's Donkybike, which lives up to the challenge to design and build the ultimate modern utility bike. While we've highlighted some of Wilson's left-field bicycleprojects in the past, his latest effort is aimed squarely at the mass market, and with any luck, it might just catch on. The ultra-rugged vehicle combines the best aspects of a BMX and a Dutch cargo bike, and while the integrated lock might not be quite enough to stand up to wily NYC bike thieves, the overengineered rack, internally-geared three-speed hub and overall versatility make for an entirely practical and affordable set of wheels.

Wilson took some time out of his increasingly busy schedule to share the story behind the Donky Bike.

Core77: According to the website, the idea for the Donkybike dates back to 2006 or so. How did the Donky Bike come about?

Ben Wilson: Yes, that's right, the idea arose in 2006—I had recently gotten a dog and could no longer ride to my studio, so I needed a bike that would allow me to safely take the dog on my bike. Around the same time, I met the partner in Donky Bike through mutual friends—he had recently spent a weekend in Amsterdam and was excited by the bike culture and especially the load capacity of the bikes. I have a history of bike design so we thought lets try and make an affordable cargo bike, and the Donky story began.

Prototypes!

The cargo bike, of course, has been around for nearly as long as the bicycle itself, but cycling has grown increasingly popular (both in the U.S. and the U.K.) even in the past few years... did seeing more cyclists on the streets motivate you to bring the Donky Bike into production?

As soon as we had made the first mock up prototype and saw how useful the bike could be we were very dedicated to take the product to market, but I agree that cycling is more popular, especially in urban areas, and just seems to have increased at an incredible rate so really pushed us on to make it happen.

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Taking IKEA Hacking to Yet Another Level: Samuel Bernier's 3D-Printed Lampshades

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We picked up on Samuel Bernier's "Project RE_" even before he was recognized as Runner-Up in the DIY category of this year's Core77 Design Awards, and he might just be in contention for 2013 with his latest project, "Dentelle." Taking it's name from the French word for lace, the project was inspired by a simple repair job:

When I moved in my new apartment, the last owner had left [an IKEA] Rigolit lamp in the middle of the living room. An object that looks like a fishing rod holding a big paper cloud. The lampshade was ripped everywhere and Scotch tape was holding it together. This huge volume was always in the way and we kept bumping our heads into it. One day, I had enough and decided to buy a new lampshade to replace the paper one. Everything was either too expensive for me or extremely ugly. Also, the closest IKEA was an hour away... by bus.

What does a designer do in such a situation? He makes! A few hours later, thanks to affordable 3D printing, a unique lampshade was made. I couldn't stop there, so I designed 2, 3... 12 different ones, using always the same shape and changing only the color and the texture. They take between 4 and 12 hours to print, use absolutely no support material, weight between 50g and 100g and cost less than $5 to print.

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As in his "Project RE_," Bernier's approach captures the spirit of the Fixer's Manifesto to a tee, revitalizing a superficially damaged object with ingenuity, a bit of elbow grease (and a spool of ABS, of course).

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Burton Snowboards is seeking a Senior Graphic Designer - Apparel & Accessories in Burlington, Vermont

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Senior Graphic Designer - Apparel & Accessories
Burton Snowboards

Burlington, Vermont

Burton has an opening for a Senior Graphic Designer for Apparel and Accessories in Burlington, Vermont! This position is responsible for the creative graphic design process for the Burton Apparel and Printables product line, delivering design solutions that ensure brand consistency and trend leadership in the marketplace and will deliver quality concepts, content and design that provide trend-right, consistent, differentiated and/or exclusive product to support objectives.

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Best Made Company: "What the Tree Remembers, the Axe Forgets"

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What a sweet gig: Best Made Company manufactures outdoor products at a former chandelier factory in TriBeCa. The guys who work there make axes, among other things, and as part of the testing process they head out into the woods with their creations in tow. What ensues is currently stirring deep envy in your indoor-bound correspondent: chopping wood, getting campfires going, cooking over open flame, knocking back a few beers... I won't spoil the video for you with unnecessarily lengthy descriptions, just take a break and give it a watch:

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ICSID on the Lookout for the Next World Design Capital

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Good design is the result of foresight and planning, often undertaken years in advance, and the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design is now laying the ground for 2016. Yes, it's that time again: Following this week's Helsinki-to-Cape-Town handover of the World Design Capital title—Cape Town's got it for 2014—the application process is now open for the next city in line.

Helsinki was deemed a success, with ICSID President Soon-in Lee reporting that "Record-breaking tourism levels and initiatives such as the Design ROI project from the Finnish Design Business Association and Aalto University are direct answers to the objective of how we can increase the understanding of design's role as a promoter of business life and economics."

Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille was optimistic about her city's prospects. "Cape Town's approach to the World Design Capital 2014 will support the premise that excellence in design is using what you have to realise what you want," she said at the convocation ceremony. "What we hope to do is design the change we want to see in our city, using the very building blocks of which our city is comprised."

Assuming a fairness in rotation continues, the next WDC will presumably be in Australia, North America or South America, the remaining continents that haven't yet had a go.

ICSID closed the convocation ceremony with a video highlighting the first four cities to win their WDC bids: Torino in 2008, Seoul in 2010, Helsinki for this year and, of course, Cape Town:

Download the application for the 2016 bid here.

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DARPA's Open Call to Design Next-Generation Amphibious Vehicle

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The budget for the U.S. Department of Defense is precipitously close to plunging headfirst down the impending 'fiscal cliff' that's making headlines these days, but thankfully the folks at DARPA, the Pentagon's R&D division, have already set aside at least a few million bucks to develop the next generation of tactical vehicles, and they're looking to reward a few lucky taxpayers with cash prizes for their savoir-faire. According to Program Manager Lt. Col Nathan Wiedenman, DARPA is "seeking to engage innovators outside of the traditional defense industry."

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is calling on innovators with expertise in designing and engineering drivetrain and mobility systems to collaboratively design elements of a new amphibious infantry vehicle, the Fast, Adaptable, Next-Generation Ground Vehicle (FANG)...

Each of the three planned challenges will focus on increasingly complex vehicle subsytems and eventually on the design of a full, heavy amphibious infantry fighting vehicle that conforms to the requirements of the Marine Corps' Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV). In the course of the design challenges, participants will test DARPA's META design tools and its VehicleFORGE collaboration environment, with the ultimate goal of demonstrating that the development timetable for a complex defense system can be compressed by a factor of five...

Many current approaches to the development of heavy military vehicles have proven inadequate for the timely delivery of much-needed capabilities to the warfighter. FANG's primary goal is to fundamentally alter the way systems are designed by decoupling design and fabrication and using foundry-style manufacturing to compress the development process timeline.

The first challenge focuses on "Mobility & Drivetrain," will launch two weeks into 2013, with a tentative submission deadline of April 15, 2013. The winning design will be realized at the iFAB Foundry, with a $1m cash prize for the winning team.

DARPA is looking to launch the second challenge, for the "Chassis & Structure" of FANG, in late 2013; the final challenge, to develop a full vehicle is slated for 2014, with higher stakes. In addition to double prize money, "the winning team in the third and final challenge could have its vehicle tested by the Marine Corps alongside ACV prototypes in operational testing."

Learn more and register at VehicleForge.org.

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Closest Thing We'll Get to Seeing ID Sketches on a T-Shirt: Patent Drawings, Courtesy PatentWear

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I loves me some patent artwork, and so does a company called PatentWear. The California-based company, which has quietly been around for nearly 20 years but has just started selling online, takes some of history's more interesting product design patent drawings—bike derailleurs, climbing gear, firearms, tools, toys, musical instruments, you name it—and prints them up on T-shirts.

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Each of our designs takes as many as forty hours to produce, from initial research through the design and art production phases, and finally, to printing. We use an eco-friendly water-based ink process that is long-wearing and, with a with a slightly muted tone, it perfectly captures the essence of our vintage patent art designs—some of which are based on patents that date as far back as the early 1800s.

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As you can see the linework has been gussied up with color to give it some pop, and the results are pretty catchy. Funny to think that at one point in the products' development process these drawings were jealously guarded secrets, and now you can parade around with them plastered all over your torso for 22 bucks.

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Gad Scott Tal's Wood and Leather Flashlight

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A tactical flashlight it ain't. Designer Gad Scott Tal's Flashlight No. 01 is made from reclaimed wood, burnished with beeswax, and finished with leather and brass details.

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Originally commissioned for a benefit auction by the Bay Area's Headlands Center for the Arts, the No. 01 will be put into production by Tauro, Tal's high-end leather goods company.

"Initially, it might be enjoyed as a curio," says Tal, "but its practicality would likely be realized during the next rolling blackouts."

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Philips Partners with Apple on Their Own Wi-Fi-Enabled, User-Controlled Colored Bulb

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Remember the LIFX, the wi-fi-enabled smart LED bulb? While its Kickstarter funding period ended two weeks ago (well past its $100,000 target with $1.3 mil in pledges), there's no word on when production will begin; on November 12th the LIFX team wrote that "It's not possible to make final [production decisions] until we perform detailed thermal modeling and standardized measurements of light output, color rendering index, white balance agility, etc."

In the meantime Philips has been stumping for their own wi-fi-enabled, color changing offering, the Hue bulb. Interestingly, one of their marketing points is that you can select the output color (using an iDevice) via a method that will be familiar to Photoshop eyedrop tool users. Check it out:

Being the corporate giant that they are, Philips has adopted an interesting marketing technique: They've chosen to make the device available only through Apple Stores (both online and brick-and-mortar), taking preorders now and shipping in several months. At 200 bucks for a three-bulb starter pack the things ain't cheap, though they're about the same cost as the LIFX's initial $69 Kickstarter buy-in.

Rogue retailers, by the way, are re-selling Hues through Amazon at an usurious $100 per bulb; it remains to be seen if Philips will crack down.

On LIFX's Kickstarter comments page, some expressed skepticism about this project; but internet trollage aside, if Philips has thrown their weight behind a similar concept, you can bet they've concluded there's a market. Now we'll have to see whether it's David or Goliath that wins this early battle in the smartbulb war.

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Wind Turbines, without the Turbines: Saphon Energy's Zero-Blade Technology

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I've read that during the Industrial Revolution, it took a special kind of mind to envision the types of actions machines could perform. For example, early attempts to create sewing machines attempted to mimic the act of two human hands passing and plucking a needle back and forth through fabric, and those attempts failed. The purely mechanical needle, hook and shuttle system still used today was what worked, and it was difficult for all but the most gifted to work those futuristic actions out on paper.

It takes a similarly rare level of brilliance to look not forward, but backward, to find an older technology that can solve a modern-day problem. And a Tunisian start-up company called Saphon Energy has done just that, by designing a wind-capturing device that eschews the windmill form factor—a 400-year-old invention—and going with one at least 5,000 years old: the sail.

Windpower is arguably the greenest of the green, but one reason it's not seeing massive uptake is that the turbine form factor is inherently problematic. They're expensive to manufacture, noisy, and inefficient. Saphon Energy's innovation is a simple disc-shaped sail that catches and dances in the breeze. The shifting energy this produces at the mounting point is captured and either stored or immediately converted to electricity.

Hassine Labaied, a Dubai banker with ties to Tunisia, was so smitten with the promise of Saphon Energy's "Zero-Blade Technology" that he quit his 12-year finance career to pursue, as it were, a career in sails and marketing. Now serving as Saphon's CEO, in the TED talk below he outlines the surprising statistics that make Zero-Blade look like a good bet:

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Must-See Video: Manipulated Videos of Airplanes Landing in a Timely Fashion

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Two months ago, an aviation filming fanatic known on YouTube as cargospotter uploaded this footage of London Heathrow. By running the footage at high speed, he reveals how tightly the planes are packed together into a landing queue. It's also interesting to see how much the wind buffets each plane on its way in—they look like insects trying to navigate a breeze:

Now making the blog rounds is a similar-yet-different video probably destined to go viral. Filmmaker and Cal Arts grad Cy Kuckenbaker shot 4.5 hours' worth of airplanes landing at San Diego International, then composited the footage together to depict an air traffic controller's worst nightmare:

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DSK ISD International Campus is seeking Designers (Multiple Positions) in Pune, India

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Designers (Multiple Positions)
DSK ISD International Campus

Pune, India

DSK International School of Design India is looking for passionate Transportation, Product and Digital Designers interested in sharing their experiences, knowledge and mentoring design students at its new International Campus in Pune. All classes are taken in English. Multiple positions available across the whole Industrial Design process: 2D Sketch/CAD/Physical Modelling/Materials Specialist. Expat/Local, Managerial and mid-level positions available, both part and full time.

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Carbomorph Material Enables 3D-Printed Electronics, From Any 3D Printer

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Those of you unenthusiastic about 3D printing might have had the same thought as Dr. Simon Leigh: "It's always great seeing the complex and intricate models of devices such as mobile phones or television remote controls that can be produced with 3D printing," he said, "but that's it, they are invariably models that don't really function."

With that in mind Dr. Leigh, a researcher at the University of Warwick's School of Engineering, decided to do something about it. He and his research team developed a material called carbomorph, which is basically an inexpensive, printable plastic. It can be loaded into any of the rash of low-cost 3D printers we see hitting the market. But here's the thing: it's conductive.

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What this means is that owners of 3D printers can spec electronic tracks, sensors, and touch-sensitive areas into their designs, and print out things like functioning game controllers or sensor-embedded objects. (To prove the latter, the research team printed a mug that could detect how much liquid it was holding.) Of course you still need a connection point, but it's as simple as printing sockets into your object, and then you can connect things like Arduino controllers.

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Autodesk University 2012: Because We Can's Super-fast CNC'd Gaming Tables

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Now that's what I call quick: twenty minutes of design followed by three (leisurely) days of fabrication to create four different tables and more than a half-dozen stools. Core77 fave Because We Can (we covered them last year here) used their extensive design experience and CNC mastery to whip up some tables on short notice for this year's Autodesk University. On display in the Creative Studio, not far from the ShopBots we'll get to soon, the tables were in constant use.

Because We Can Co-Founder Jeffrey McGrew breaks the project down:

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