The Bike Saddle 3D-Printed and Hand-Stitched in France

The Bike Saddle 3D-Printed and Hand-Stitched in France

Most conversations about technology and craft follow the same script. Technology is fast, scalable, cold. Craft is slow, precious, warm. The two might share a showroom floor or a mood board, but they rarely share a philosophy. Mahdi Naïm’s AERIS bicycle saddle disagrees with that entire premise, and the disagreement is worth paying attention to….

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Someone Turned the “Cat Knocking Things Off Tables” Meme Into a 3D Printed Lamp and It’s Perfect

Someone Turned the “Cat Knocking Things Off Tables” Meme Into a 3D Printed Lamp and It’s Perfect

Cats knocking things off tables is old internet. It predates memes as a concept, predates YouTube, predates the entire visual language of digital humor. It is perhaps the most documented animal behavior in human history, captured billions of times, studied by actual ethologists, and still inexplicably funny every single time. Fabio Ferrari has taken this…

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This Kevlar Medical Brace Folds Flat Like Origami and Might Finally Kill the Plaster Cast

This Kevlar Medical Brace Folds Flat Like Origami and Might Finally Kill the Plaster Cast

What do Swiss timepieces and sailing rigging systems have in common with orthopedic braces? More than you might think. The engineers at Osteoid drew inspiration from these precision mechanical systems to create Bracesys, a revolutionary approach to fracture immobilization that challenges everything we thought we knew about medical casts. Traditional plaster casts have remained largely…

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