Who Needs IKEA? Just Print Your Own Entire House
Taking just four weeks, a computer, a CNC printer and a whole lot of plywood, Danish architects from architecture firm Eentileen, Frederik Agdrup and Nicholas Bjorndal, built this awesome house with...
View ArticleDominate the Waves Aboard This Gorgeous Wooden Honeycomb
Today’s conventional polyurethane foam surfboards are lightweight, strong, and maneuverable. But that comes at the cost of a more jarring ride in rough seas—not to mention PU isn’t exactly an...
View ArticleThis Gigantor CNC Machine is Longer Than an American Football Field
The days of the assembly line as Henry Ford envisioned it are fading, as manual labour is replaced by mechanical. In fact, tomorrow’s factory floors could be covered with gigantic 5-axis CNC machines...
View ArticleFabsie Is Like an Ikea You Can Customise and 3D-Cut Yourself
Ikea’s great and all, but it’s expensive, and it’s just flat-packed stuff at the end of the day. You also have to fit to Ikea’s set dimensions, and configurations, but what if you could make things as...
View Article6,500 Silk Worms Spin One Heck Of a Cloud
Honestly, it seems like silk pajamas are on a downswing in popularity. Which is a damn shame. But the Mediated Matter Research Group (part of the MIT Media Lab) recently put thousands of silkworms to...
View ArticleYou Can Download Your Next Desk From This Open-Source Ikea
Ikea’s not the only place you can get a build-your-own-furniture puzzle. If you’re into the whole open source thing, there’s a new repository of completely free furniture designs that are ripe for the...
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