Sadly the Suzuki Kizashi is a concept too out there to make it to the street, but hopefully some of the styling cues will find their way to the road cars. They didn’t go far wrong with the Swift – this generation or the last one – so if they apply some of this coolness to the next model, it could be a real contender. The rest of their line-up is awful though!
M&Ms with your logo or message on them. This is a terrible rendering of my company logo, but cool if it can be tweaked as they say it will.
(“This is not a final representation of your custom candy order. Our graphic specialist will work with the image(s) you uploaded to provide the best reproduction quality possible.”)
Maybe this’ll be a good Dodge? If not, perhaps we could hitch the hot body onto a decent chassis?
What an absolutely brilliant idea.
Guy Kawasaki: Jim Newton founded TechShop in the summer of 2006 because he needed a world-class workshop so he could work on his projects and inventions. After having access to full machine shops at both the College of San Mateo when he taught a BattleBots class and at the studio set of the Discovery Channel’s MythBusters show when he was the science advisor, he found himself without a place to work on his projects after these positions. He was surprised to find that there were not any places like TechShop already, so he decided that he would open one himself.
TechShop provides its members with a huge variety of tools, machines, and equipment in a 15,000 square-foot workshop environment. The equipment at TechShop is not likely to appear in the hobbyist’s home workshop. The range of tools and equipment covers machining, sheet metal, welding, casting, laser cutters, rapid prototyping, CAD, CNC equipment, electronics, sewing, automotive, plastics, composites, and lots more.
Membership is modeled after a fitness center, and several levels of membership are available. There are currently approximately 350 monthly, yearly, corporate, and lifetime members. The facility can handle around fifty members at a time, so TechShop have set the membership cap at 500 members so the shop and workspace does not get over-crowded. There are only about 150 membership slots available until membership is full. The hours of operation for TechShop are currently 9 AM to midnight, 7 days a week. Jim tells me that they plan to open 24×7 when they reach the membership cap of 500 in the next month or two.
There are shared bins full of bits and bobs from your shed and everyone else’s shed, much akin to the wall of (useful!) crap Jamie Hyneman is famous for. The tool racks grow when people bring in their own, and appear not to shrink as you’d expect. There’s a 3D printer, a powder coater, a laser cutter, punches, lathes, sandblasters, test benches, plasma cutters, everything the uber nerd or plain old home hobbyist could need. And they run open classes, for thirty bucks and hour — a good price from both standpoints imo.
This should be franchised, all over the world. I want one in Cork. All you need to do to make is perfect for me is add a few ramps and a few other bits of automotive equipment, so I can pretend I’m Chip Foose. I’d have to be dragged out of the place kicking and screaming, like a child being extracted from a playground.
Want, WANT, WANT!
Bruce Schneier highlights a “synchronization attack” on drive-through restaurants. Is this France’s way of retaliating against America for fast food?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1jgYPsvsrA
There’ll be a few extra Glanzas in Dinos in Blackpool tonight.
For some bizarre reason it’s impossible to export multiple files from Google Docs without using a Greasemonkey script, despite the fact that (apparently) the functionality used to be available in Google Docs’ predecessor, Writely.
I want to request this feature, but the growing control-freakery in the company put paid to the direct feedback forms that used to accompany all of their services. So I’ve added my voice to this thread on the subject, and I’d appreciate it if you’d add your voice too if you’re a user.
Is Google ever going to get user-friendly again I wonder? Or was that solely to gain market share? Don’t forget Google, if you’re only competing on functionality, you’d better make damn sure you stay ahead of the field. If you don’t you’ll get fucked, not to put too fine a point on it.
(Another one stuck in the flush mechanism.)
The narration is textbook nerd, but get over it and watch the whole thing. These guys and their technology are going places. Gone places actually, one of them’s already been snapped up by Adobe.
(This one just got stuck in the wordpress u-bend.)
I’m not sure whether I actually like this concept or not, but do read the article, the use of materials and general friendliness to the environment is quite impressive.
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