So after all the blogosphere buzz and timely preparation, it does exist and is coming soon: AutoCAD 2011 for your Mac. Bringing robust 3D free-form design tools and powerful drafting capabilities to your platform of choice, AutoCAD for Mac takes full advantage of the Mac OS® X platform with an intuitive, graphical user interface that [...]
A German web retailer has posted a promotional photo of a brand new Microsoft mouse today, but the company hasn’t unveiled the gadget yet. Regardless, it seems Microsoft had already blown its cover with an online tease. “They weren’t quite smart enough with the editing of the photo they put on Twitter,” said Todd Bishop, [...]
Reach for the stars, break into the running man or slip into downward dog and General Electric’s “Visible You” mimics your every move. Ultra-responsive and lighting fast, the gesture based system captures body movements, no matter how subtle or swift, and reflects these motions in a life-sized, hi-def 3D rendering that illustrates the body’s four [...]
The Design of the Decade 2010 competition celebrates the importance of industrial design’s contribution to society and business success. “As an awards program, the Design of the Decade competition is special,” said IDSA CEO Clive Roux, “because it recognizes the social impact that design has on our society as well as the significant and growing [...]
“Project Photofly” from Autodesk aims to provide easier and more accurate tools for making a 3D model based on a photograph. Now a “technology preview of a web service,”Photofly allows users to easily create 3D models from photographs using the cloud, Autodesk says. It “brings the possibility of reality capture to designers, creative artists and [...]
Within the past couple of months, Apple’s iPad has making quite a strong presence to computer users everywhere that want their touch on the go with a wider screen. Despite our initial thoughts of it being an iTouch on steroids, when it was first released, it really has grown into multiple things: it’s an upgraded [...]
The rapid prototyping process is opening a whole new spectrum of possibility, time management and expediting projects – even with clothing and accessories of fashion! Designer Jiri Evenhuis, in collaboration with Janne Kyttanen of Freedom of Creation, was the first to toy with the idea of using 3D printers to create textiles. “Instead of producing [...]
The PROJET HD 5000 is finally here and we’ve got some surprises in store. Calling all prototypers, medical device engineers and all of our customers! Trade in your machines like the Envision today or show us your older 3D modeler to find out if you qualify for our upcoming trade-in! Check out our specs page [...]
For the past couple of years, scientists have been exploring new options to make ‘a fly on a wall’ a real possibility. After many ideas, trials and tests, the Pentagon’s Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) created an actual concept of little mechanically oriented creepy crawlers to go about caves and other hiding places as [...]
Brookhaven National Laboratory a national research laboratory overseen by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy has been named the Autodesk Inventor of the Month for July in recognition of its innovative nanotechnology equipment being designed for a new light source facility slated to open in 2014. In this interview with Mike [...]
