Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

Leap Motion: $70 hand gesture controller 200x more precise than a Kinect

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 24, 2012

This little white box is the device you’ve been dreaming of since watching the swooshy-hand-gesturing of films like Minority Reports and Iron Man – a device that truly relays hand…

Prime Cuts: A legendary open top – the 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 24, 2012

As Britain experiences a minor heatwave this week, the country that buys more convertible cars per person than any other will be dreaming of taking to the open road with…

3D Systems expands its online print choices to include ZPrinter and ProJet materials

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 25, 2012

Clarks find the ZPrinter technology beneficial for prototyping 3D Systems has announced the immediate availability of ZPrinter and ProJet 3D printed parts to its online On Demand Parts services. Having…

Customisation key in 3D Systems’ latest acquisition

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 25, 2012

The arrival of summer has not seen 3D Systems let up in its spending spree – having announced its latest acquisition: Bespoke Innovations, a San Francisco start-up that 3D prints…

3D printed ‘fur’ tiles

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 28, 2012

Sadly, our plans to visit Clerkenwell Design Week were scuppered by deadlines, although acquaintances that made it felt we should show you this: BREAD‘s laser sintered fibre tiles. The project…

The Bee Brick – the luxury hotel for bees

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 29, 2012

Design collaboration group Saint H are setting to right some of the environmental wrongs with research-led, future orientated design – including the Bee Brick, a temporary shelter for the hardworking…

Tasty design – The Cube visits London

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 6, 2012

A view that’s good enough to eat Before the Jubilee festivities overcame London this extended holiday weekend, we were lucky enough to be invited by Swedish appliance experts Electrolux to…

UK government does something positive to help future designers with the new National Skills Academy

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 7, 2012

As design students across the world finish off their final year projects, the UK government is developing a positive approach to help future students with the new National Skills Academy…

Everyone hates dentists. DMG Dental make them more tolerable.

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 8, 2012

As far as we’re concerned dentists are as bad as traffic wardens, manhandling our molars with screaming utensils and charging us vast sums for the privilege. DMG Dental, with some…

How to craft the best 3D4D Challenge ideas

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 19, 2012

A few weeks back we attended the London workshop of the 3D4D Challenge, where we huddled down with our ideas of how the materials and build methods of 3D printing…