Tag: Downloadable Design - Page 6
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Ponoko Brings On-Demand Design to the U.S.
TreeHugger has been a fan of Ponoko ever since they launched last year (full disclosure: head TreeHugger Graham Hill is now on their Board of Advisors); their ability to mix ideas like mass customization, downloadable design and flat pack means
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Reduced Carbon Footprint Souvenirs: A Whole New Way to Give Gifts
Just because you go on vacation doesn't mean your carbon footprint will take a break, too; while things like the impact of aircraft carbon emissions are large (with one exception), obvious and often calculated, the impact small things like the chintzy
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Give Your Love Bunny an eCard
Whew, when we tried to send a Valentine eCard this morning (green naturally!) we just found boatloads of poorly designed, agonizing attempts at humor. Then we came across the free video eCards on Rattlebox. Although some of the cards are a bit
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Google Earth+CNC=Fluid Earth
Slartibartfast was particularly fond of the fjords, but the whole world is covered in wonderful topography that one can read from contour maps with a bit of training, but cannot feel without being there. Until now, with Fluid Earth. This brings
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Don't Be a Flat-Pack Statistic: Follow the Directions!
We aren't sure whether to laugh or cry at this news: almost half of people living with home-assembled flat-pack furniture are in danger of falling out of bed or collapsing when they sit on a chair. This according to a UK survey compiled with data
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Get FIT: Flat Packing "Friction in Tension" Table
A great companion to your new flat pack shelving, the FIT table fits together without screws, nails, hardware or tools. It's another great candidate for downloadable design, breaking down into six flat or nearly-flat pieces that can be easily
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Bend it Like Piegato: Flat Pack Shelving
Made from just a single sheet of laser-cut steel, and requiring just two screws to mount it on the wall, Piegato shelves are a great way to add storage using minimal space and materials. You get to decide how its configured -- the shelves can be packed
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Ponoko Online Furniture Manufacturing: If You Dream It, They Can Build It
TreeHugger has mentioned the concept of downloadable design many a time before, with good reason. It's a great way to localize product manufacturing and cut down the distance and time (and carbon footprint) of everything needs to get to you.
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TreeHugger Picks: Downloading Design
Downloadable designs for 3-D printing is a pretty intriguing idea for the future; instead of going to the store to replace a watch band (for example), just download the design and "print" it yourself. Until 3-D printers are as common as inkjet printers
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Downloading Designs: Home 3D Printing Coming Soon
Bill Gross of IdeaLab is at it again, and will soon be selling the Desktop Factory. In a disgraceful example of verbing, he said "We are Easy-Bake Ovening a 3-D model," he said. "The really powerful thing about
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Flatpack Cutlery by J.C. Karich
JC Karich "started to work with empty bottles trying to extract shapes similar to cutlery, to finally achieve a salad set that comes out from flat single surfaces and that come in shape in a simple way and becomes elegant and beautiful." and out of a
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Downloading Designs: Build Your Own 3D Printer
We are always excited about the possibility of economical CNC machines and 3D printers or "fabbers"; someday we will be downloading products as easily as we do now with PDFs. We have noted that Sears sells a CNC for $ 3200 and now learn from the
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Downloading Designs: Soon in 3D
A team of French scientists has developed a method of making flat shapes form themselves into 3D shapes by simply adding a drop of water in a carefully designed spot. Flower patterned shapes become spheres, a cross shape becomes a box. They envision
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Beam Me Up: 3D Scanning is Getting Affordable
Scanning or faxing paper is so 1970. Now you can get an affordable Nextengine 3D scanner ($2,495, just a little more than I paid for my first fax machine). It is another step on the road to dematerialized production, where designs are transported over
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Downloading Designs: Vivacizzare Your Desk with Piopio
Good Italian design is so expensive and transport costs so much, but with downloadable designs, it does not matter where it comes from. In time for Easter or Passover, Scarabokkio offers this cute little box, which google translates as:
