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Steelcase x MIT 3D Printed Furniture Collab

We love 3D printing. It’s great for one-offs, or for small parts. But can it be just as great for furniture on a larger scale? Perhaps. Scientists at the MIT self-assembly lab have collaborated with Steelcase and product designer Christophe…

Join the Amazon AWS Chatbot Challenge

Chatbots have so much potential to be awesome, for interacting with just about anything. We even deployed one built on Chatfuel for the Civilizr dog, Barclay the Corgi, on Facebook. Admittedly, BarclayBot can’t do much other than ask you for…

Hidden Portraits: Art With Watson

Cadillac House on Hudson Street in NYC always has something interesting on exhibit (oh, and pretty good coffee too); from April 25-May 7, 2017, stop in and check out Art with Watson: Hidden Portraits. The project is a collaboration between…

Hack This Playhouse

Check out what is probably the world’s most awesome playhouse kit, found in co.design. It’s a creation of Grimshaw called the MySpace Cubby House, and it’s a modular backyard playhouse “that invites kids to think like architects.” Unfortunately we can’t…

Integral Man – Watch the Trailer

We posted a while back when James Stewart’s amazing Integral house went on the market (The House That Calculus Built). Now, a documentary that was being filmed about James Stewart before he passed away is set to open the Toronto…

What’s Your Superpower?

This is a question we all should ask ourselves – the answer won’t be something like the ability to leap tall buildings with a single bound or some kind of next-level sensory perception, not really, but rather something that for…

It’s Alive? Sorta. Avoiding The Frankenwatch

Watches are a fun pricey hobby and occasionally a good investment, and even the mid-range ones are becoming more popular and collectible, so naturally, more attention is being paid to creating good fakes as well. One fake strat is the…