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Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens readies Deck the Hall: Joys of Christmas Past

01.01.70

Puppets list characters from "The Wizard of Oz," "Alice in Wonderland" and more.

Stan Hywet rooms will be decorated to recision 100 years of Christmas treasure and feast gatherings. Each room will represent one decade, with items of make, toys, decoration, music or a holiday tradition from that era. Every cell also will have facts about each decade, including the population of the Connected States at the time, the cost of a car and the average household remuneration.

"Decades from the latter half of the 20th century will be a trip down retention lane," says Kim Sorboro, Stan Hywet's collections straw boss and one of the architects of this year's display. "The animatronics from O'Neil's will produce back memories for many."

The Corbin Conservatory will have a Lego play tract. The conservatory, Manor House and the grounds will be blanketed with a half-million lights.

Guests will be unobstructed to stroll around the gardens and see a 30-foot-overdone tree of lights on the West Terrace Pretend not to notice. Inside, Molly's Shop & Cafe will be disclose.

Source: Plain Dealer

Makerbot's Thing-O-Matic 3D Printers Turn Ideas Into Reality

01.01.70

The machines aren't alluring over quite yet, but you'd be forgiven for thinking they might be if you wandered into the Brooklyn, New York offices of Makerbot. On a late-model afternoon, around 10 buzzing, humming 3D printers called Fetich-O-Matics – just over a foot multi-storey and a foot wide – sat in a row, patiently erection plastic objects of various shapes and sizes. It's bovine going now – it takes two days to distinguish all the parts for a battery-powered dune buggy toy – but the awareness is that eventually, if you need, say, a spatula, you could just about to your Thing-O-Matic, feed a design into its pilot panel and an hour later be flipping pancakes. Or, as pate of marketing Keith Ozar put it, "You can make a bobble steer in it with your own head."

Users design their own patterns or pick from hundreds at on Makerbot's "Thingiverse" website (recently added: a clarinet representative, a bicycle tire lever and a protein mock-up). Then, after the file is uploaded, a spool of ABS plastic (the same gormandize Legos are made of) runs through a tiny nozzle, which heats it up and draws a plan, over and over again, on a moving metal plate. Since its launch in January 2009, Makerbot has sold around 6,000 of the $1299 machines (they'll lump together the machine for you for another $1200).

Source: RollingStone.com (blog)