Wonderland

Talking Portal plushie

The most adorable plushie yet.

Interactive Talking Plush Portal Turret from Jonathan M. Guberman on Vimeo.

(Thanks @sonandgames !)

Toy adword wordclouds tell a terribly gender-stereotyped story

This Canadian blogger has done a one-woman lab test on words used in TV ads for toys aimed at 8 year olds, and this is the result:

A tiny silver lining: the girls' wordle has FUN as the second biggest word. Whew! But I can't see it at all in the boy ads, which is pitiful. Poor boys. No "adventure" either...?

(Via mccandelish)

Digitally-printed teeny weeny space invader cushion

Custom printed fabric, custom made cushion.

I like.

Pac-Man baby headband

Just to make you go all gooey.

Wurrr!

Moonball (3D printed) ring

This is both unusual and beautiful.

Available in gold too, at 50 bux.

Head down

Where've I been? Deep, deep in researchland.

Post C4Education (Battlefront won the Emmy again last week, and SuperMe won a MEGA the week before, yay!), I'm relishing the peace and quiet, to be honest. For now, anyway. And meanwhile we're printing fun.

Stuff of note: maybe you can help?

Doll hair is an issue. We'd like mohair and similar, but it's hard to find out where to start. Nylon is too China-centric: we're trying to avoid long distance. Wigmakers seem to have all but disappeared. Rooting is an arcane art.

Eyes, it seems, you simply stockpile. I suspect they're all made in China too, but they're less of an issue for now: ultimately, they wouldn't be hard to 3Dprint, if a tiny bit fiddly. Unlike hair, which is currently pretty much impossible.

That said..

3D printing in wood "flour".

Colorisation is coming beyond zCorp: Eos do a lot of medical stuff, so they have hearing-aid brown as a colour option for bioplastics. It's a start.

Did you see the bronze-infused stainless steel femur that iMaterialise printed for us? That's indicative of what you can make as little, metal charms. Or just print a Terminator.

Fun 3D developments in HTML5.

We're going to be looking for an artist(s) soon to give us a hand, someone fluent in 3D but clever with 2D, and who's good at character design. More when we have the proper brief written.

World of Geekcraft

Isn't this cute?

Available at Chronicle Books (US link) and Amazon (UK link).

(Thanks Timothy!)