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Production Methods: How to Turn a Flat Metal Disc into a Bottle-Necked Scuba...
Plastic bottles are made by blow-molding, a beautiful, elegant process that can create a full-bodied shape with a narrow little neck. But how the heck do they make scuba tanks, fire extinguishers and...
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Google's AI Has Conquered Tetris. Next Up? The World.
Let’s say you met a caveman and wanted to teach him Tetris. How would you go about it?You and the caveman would probably sit down on a couch one afternoon and, after a perfunctory description of the...
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Another Table Design Inspired by Natural Bodies of Water
Do you remember Greg Klassen's River Collection of tables? To refresh your memory, the Pacific-Northwest-based craftsman used two slabs with live edges to make one tabletop—but he flipped the live...
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Interview with Tennyson Pinheiro
Tennyson Pinheiro is a serial entrepreneur, designer, professor, startup founder and angel investor. You may be familiar with him as the founder and CEO of Livework in Brazil, the pioneering global...
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Tech Specs: Abe Burmeister, Cofounder of Outlier
This is the fourth of our ten Tech Specs interviews. Previously, we talked to Ladies & Gentlemen Studio.Name: Abe BurmeisterJob title: Cofounder of the Brooklyn-based clothing company...
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11 Alarm Clocks for Starting the Day Right
Many people are happy to use their smartphones as their alarm clocks, but that won't work for everyone. Some users don't have smartphones—or are minimally tech-proficient and only know how to use them...
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Fiskars "Gears" Up to Launch PowerGear2 Line of Cutting Tools
Last year I stood in a snow-dusted field in Finland, about 100 kilometers west of Helsinki, handling a variety of bladed tools. There at Fiskars' proving grounds, a bunch of us visitors took turns...
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Tech-tacular Forum Frenzy: Should Modeling Knowledge Be Deep Or Wide?
As much fun as it is to fill a notebook with sketches of fast shoes and sexy cars, ID is definitely a digital field. As we trawled around the forums looking for interesting tech issues we noticed...
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Kairos: A Mechanical/Smartwatch Hybrid
Billing their product as the "world's first and only mechanical smart watch hybrid," Kairos Watches has set the expectations bar high. Especially considering their watches haven't launched; they're...
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Tech Specs: Victoria Slaker, VP of Product Design at Ammunition
This is the fifth of our ten Tech Specs interviews. Previously, we talked to Outlier's Abe Burmeister.Name: Victoria SlakerJob title: VP, Product Design at Ammunition in San FranciscoBackground: After...
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Hell in a Handbasket: Using Superhydrophobic Paint to Create Splashback on...
Mornings in New York: The taste of hot coffee, the din of traffic, the aroma of fresh urine. If you have the bad luck to pass anywhere a drunken bar-goer might have the night before, as most of us do,...
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Counterfeit Sneakers are Now Manufactured So Well, Even Experts Can't Tell...
With the woodchipper fired up, the men began tossing $1 million worth of brand-new sneakers into it. Nike, Adidas, Vans, Converse, it didn't matter what it said on the label; all 150,000 pairs were...
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Software Tools That Change the Way We…Create "Unnecessary Explosions" GIFs
This is not part of our Tech-tacular special, where we'll soon show you how better design and manufacturing software is making a real difference; but this is funny.Motion graphics software is intended...
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The World's Swankiest Flashlight? Brendan Keim on the Making of His...
This is the latest installment of In the Details, our weekly deep-dive into the making of a new product or project. Last week, we examined a smarter jump rope.Brendan Keim was walking through the...
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Tech Specs: Greg Howell, Design Chief at Ram Trucks Exterior Design
This is the sixth of our ten Tech Specs interviews. Previously, we talked to Ammunition's Victoria Slaker.Name: Greg HowellJob title: Design Chief, Ram Trucks Exterior Design Background: I grew up in...
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solidThinking Evolve 2015 in Review
Brought to you by solidThinkingA recent test drive of the beta version of solidThinking’s 2015 edition of Evolve, impressed with the variety and quality of features available in this NURBS-based CAD...
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Digital Power Tools That Change the Way We Design & Build: The Handibot
For our Tech-Tacular design and technology special, we sought out game-changing power tools: Ones of such unique utility and intelligent design that the capabilities of the tool itself actually change...
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A Tech-tacular Week
In case you missed it, we're celebrating 20 years of Core77 with a look into the future in the Core77 Tech-tacular. Over the next few weeks we'll be exploring the myriad ways that new technologies are...
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Why I'm Turned Around on "Framework"
When I first heard that Spike TV was putting on a furniture design competition "reality" show, it sounded horrible. Contestants would be asked to slap together a piece of furniture in just 24 hours, an...
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Save the Date: FutureFest 2015, 14-15th March, London
Some of the planet’s most radical thinkers, makers and performers will converge on London this weekend for one the most unusual and overstimulating events of the cultural design calendar. This year...
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