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%feed https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/29-august-4-september-2016/new-3d-printing-pen-aimed-professional-designers/ A new 3D printing pen aimed at professional designers
A new 3D printing pen aimed specifically at designers has been created, and its makers hope the device will be more cost and time effective than a 3D printer.
The 3Doodler Pro is a new version of the 3Doodler developed in 2013, with additional features intended specifically for product designers, architects, engineers and artists.
The original pen enables users to “draw” out solid structures on a surface or in the air, using a polycarbonate material.
The updated version lets users design with a range of plastics, including those replicating wood, copper, bronze and nylon, and also includes a temperature range of 100°C to 250°C and speed dials, alongside a fan so users can control the cooling of plastics. These features enable designers to create models more quickly than the last pen allowed.
It also has a stronger internal drive system, meaning it can be used for longer and more intensively, says Faraz Warsi, creative director at 3Doodler.
“Imagine being able to draw furniture prototypes in wood, hand-draw custom jewellery pieces in copper or bronze, add detail to material in nylon, or create instantaneous 3D models in polycarbonate,” says Warsi. “Designers will now have a tool that will allow them to use these materials in a brand new way.”
The pen also aims to speed up the design process, which can take longer when using professional machinery such as a 3D printer, he says.
“To create something with a 3D printer, you'll need to own a 3D printer, which can be expensive, knowledge of how to use specialist CAD software, and time for the product to print,” he says. “With a 3Doodler Pro, you can create a 3D structure exactly at the moment that inspiration strikes. The ability to make professional models, without the time and money spent on waiting for a 3D print, will be an invaluable asset to designers.”
The pen also comes with a storage case, a portable battery pack, a custom nozzle set and 100 strands of specialty plastic.
The 3Doodler Pro, which went on sale this week, is available to buy for $249 (£187) from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and will soon be available to buy worldwide online from the official site.
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The "Galaxy's" most viewed headlines for the past seven days from the epic discovery of a potentially habitable planet in the nearby Alpha Centauri star system to China's report that it plans to build a manned radar station on the moon.
%feed http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond/~3/3CbB0Ch9Hao/giant-comets-from-the-oort-belt-a-real-threat-to-earth-nasas-new-horizons-spacecraft-to-probe-1.html "Giant Comets from the Kuiper Belt Pose a Real Threat to Earth" --NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft to Probe These Outer Reaches
A decade ago, Stephen Hawking warned that one of the major factors in the possible scarcity of intelligent life in our galaxy is the high probability of an asteroid or comet colliding with inhabited planets. This past December, a team of astronomers from Armagh Observatory and the University of Buckingham reported that the discovery of hundreds of giant comets in the outer planetary system over the last two decades means that these objects pose a much greater hazard to life than asteroids.
Giant comets, termed centaurs, move on unstable orbits crossing the paths of the massive outer planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The planetary gravitational fields can occasionally deflect these objects in towards the Earth. Centaurs are typically 50 to 100 kilometer across, or larger, and a single such body contains more mass than the entire population of Earth-crossing asteroids found to date.
Because they are so distant from the Earth, Centaurs appear as pinpricks of light in even the largest telescopes. Saturn's 200-km moon Phoebe, depicted in this image, seems likely to be a Centaur that was captured by that planet's gravity at some time in the past. Until spacecraft are sent to visit other Centaurs, our best idea of what they look like comes from images like this one, obtained by the Cassini space probe orbiting Saturn. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, having flown past Pluto six months ago, has been targeted to conduct an approach to a 45-km wide trans-Neptunian object at the end of 2018.
Calculations of the rate at which centaurs enter the inner solar system indicate that one will be deflected onto a path crossing the Earth's orbit about once every 40,000 to 100,000 years. Whilst in near-Earth space they are expected to disintegrate into dust and larger fragments, flooding the inner solar system with cometary debris and making impacts on our planet inevitable.
Known severe upsets of the terrestrial environment and interruptions in the progress of ancient civilisations, together with our growing knowledge of interplanetary matter in near-Earth space, indicate the arrival of a centaur around 30,000 years ago. This giant comet would have strewn the inner planetary system with debris ranging in size from dust all the way up to lumps several kilometres across.
Specific episodes of environmental upheaval around 10,800 BCE and 2,300 BCE, identified by geologists and palaeontologists, are also consistent with this new understanding of cometary populations. Some of the greatest mass extinctions in the distant past, for example the death of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, may similarly be associated with this giant comet hypothesis.
"In the last three decades we have invested a lot of effort in tracking and analyzing the risk of a collision between the Earth and an asteroid," said Bill Napier of the University of Buckingham. "Our work suggests we need to look beyond our immediate neighborhood too, and look out beyond the orbit of Jupiter to find centaurs. If we are right, then these distant comets could be a serious hazard, and it's time to understand them better."
The researchers have also uncovered evidence from disparate fields of science in support of their model. For example, the ages of the sub-millimeter craters identified in lunar rocks returned in the Apollo program are almost all younger than 30,000 years, indicating a vast enhancement in the amount of dust in the inner Solar system since then.
The outer solar system as we now recognise it. At the centre of the map is the Sun, and close to it the tiny orbits of the terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars). Moving outwards and shown in bright blue are the near-circular paths of the giant planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The orbit of Pluto is shown in white. Staying perpetually beyond Neptune are the trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), in yellow: seventeen TNO orbits are shown here, with the total discovered population at present being over 1,500. Shown in red are the orbits of 22 Centaurs (out of about 400 known objects), and these are essentially giant comets (most are 50-100 km in size, but some are several hundred km in diameter).
Because the Centaurs cross the paths of the major planets, their orbits are unstable: some will eventually be ejected from the solar system, but others will be thrown onto trajectories bringing them inwards, therefore posing a danger to civilization and life on Earth.
Following its historic first-ever flyby of Pluto, NASA's New Horizons mission received the green light in July to fly onward to an object deeper in the Kuiper Belt, known as 2014 MU69. The spacecraft's planned rendezvous with the ancient object considered one of the early building blocks of the solar system -- is Jan. 1, 2019.
“The New Horizons mission to Pluto exceeded our expectations and even today the data from the spacecraft continue to surprise,” said NASA's Director of Planetary Science Jim Green. “We're excited to continue onward into the dark depths of the outer solar system to a science target that wasn't even discovered when the spacecraft launched.”
The Daily Galaxy via Royal Astronomical Society
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%feed https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/04/things-to-come-review-mia-hansen-love-isabelle-huppert Things to Come review Isabelle Huppert is note-perfect
Huppert's warm, wry performance as an academic facing a crisis at home powers Mia Hansen-Løve's intimate, intellectual film
Is there a more commanding screen presence than Isabelle Huppert? From the spiralling American madness of Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate to the diverse demands of Claire Denis's African-set colonial parable White Material and Brillante Mendoza's Philippines hostage drama Captive, Huppert has proved ready to rise to any challenge. Claude Chabrol famously cast her as a teenage murderer in 1978's Violette Nozière and a covert poisoner in 2000's Merci pour le chocolat, while Chris Honoré called upon her to tackle the taboo subject of incest in Ma mère. Most famously, in Michael Haneke's unflinching The Piano Teacher, she took cinemagoers to the very edge of a masochistic abyss, with harrowing results.
Hansen-Løve serves up unapologetic discussions of Rousseau, radicalism and revolution
%feed http://www.designboom.com/art/mariko-mori-luminous-ring-waterfall-brazil-rio-2016-olympics-09-05-2016/ mariko mori sites luminous ring at the peak of a cascading waterfall in brazil
as the sun sheds light on the sculpture from different angles, the orb changes in color, slowly shifting from blue to gold hues.
%feed https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/sep/05/10-best-sculpture-parks-europe 10 of the best sculpture parks in Europe
Picturesque and thought-provoking, art and the natural landscape combine beautifully at these city, coastal and countryside parks
The Austrian Sculpture Park sits in a seven-hectare park designed by renowned Swiss architect Dieter Kienast, on the outskirts of Graz. It's home to more than 60 sculptures by Austrian and international artists such as Fritz Wotruba, Franz West and Yoko Ono. Lotus ponds, landscaped lawns and a lush forest form a background to the contemporary sculptures. Some pieces look like toys dropped from a giant's pram: a huge pink ball, a concrete boat, aeroplane parts. Bookings for guided tours and workshops can be made on the website. • Free,museum-joanneum.at. Open daily March-October, 10am-8pm
%feed http://www.designboom.com/art/ole-pink-crochet-house-kerava-avesta-09-04-2016/ olek wraps two scandinavian homes in hot pink crochet
in kerava, finland and in avesta, sweden, the artist used her emblematic material to canvas the entire exterior of two homes in woven neon pink fabric.
%feed https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/04/inside-artists-and-writers-in-reading-prison-artangel-review-oscar-wilde Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison review a momentous Artangel project
HMP Reading prison Artists and writers honour Oscar Wilde's prison years in a series of works that explore the agony of isolation
Cell C22 is scarcely bigger than the narrow bed and table it contains. A bucket in the corner, in Oscar Wilde's time, turned his “numbered tomb” into a foul latrine. The window is shockingly high, so that the prisoner can see nothing of the outer world but a fraction of sky, and even this freedom is qualified. “With bars they blur the gracious moon and blind the goodly sun.”
This is where Wilde was imprisoned for two years, from 1895. This is where miraculously, eking out the sheets of paper that were removed every night by warders he wrote De Profundis. He spent each day in solitary confinement, with nothing but the Bible to read for the whole of the first year. And so did every other inmate.
There are extraordinary moments as you pass among the iron corridors and dank cells
%feed https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/sep/04/dundee-travel-art-little-pot-of-gold-at-the-end-of-a92 Dundee: 'A little pot of gold at the end of the A92'
The city on the silvery Tay is often derided, but it has much to offer not least its art, says Debbie Lawson, who has just added to its treasures
I was just “a wee scrap”, as my father would say, when we left the north east coast of Scotland for the south coast of England. Dad is from London, but after six years living in Dundee he was pretty much bilingual.
Then he joined the army and for the next decade my brother and I were shunted around various military bases, clocking up schools and fighting over bedrooms, but the one thing that grounded us was the fact that we came from Dundee.
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%feed http://twitter.com/merylbeeZA/status/772708375419359232 Giant Pandas, Symbol of Conservation, Are No Longer Endangered:https://t.co/EugOU0VkjU #China #panda #conservation #wildlife #CITES https://t.co/EugOU0VkjU
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgo.theregister.com%2Ffeed%2Fwww.theregister.co.uk%2F2016%2F09%2F05%2Fnext_mars_landing_scheduled_for_monday_november_26th_2018%2F&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Next Mars landing scheduled for Monday, November 26th, 2018
Better late than never for Mars InSight and its thermo-hammer plan to drill 5 metres into Mars
We're going back to Mars, quite probably on Monday, November 26th, 2018.…
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2016%2F09%2F04%2Fgorilla-critically-endangered-iucn-red-list_n_11862372.html&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Humans Are Wiping Out Their Closest Relatives HONOLULU ― If humans continue down our current path, we may soon find ourselves living in a world with no other great apes. On Sunday, the Eastern g...
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