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No matter who you are, you can remember a time when a parent or friend pushed you to do something that was out of your comfort zone. Whether that was broccoli or bungee jumping, the experience is fixed in your mind, a reference point for other new experiences. At some point in our lives, however, we can become a little hesitant when it comes to new things. But that’s not the Do Space way....

Let’s start with the metaphor of printing ink on paper. As the cartridge moves across the page, a layer of pigment creates the letter z. Now let’s say this printer does the same pass again and again, over the same letter z pattern. Eventually, there would be so many layers of ink that the letter would start to rise vertically off the page. Now imagine the “ink” is ceramic, steel,...

In the broadest terms, the Internet is about light-speed connectivity between people, media and companies. With the Internet, ideas, data and money can be exchanged across the globe almost instantly. The Internet of things (IoT) is the next step in rapid communication as everyday objects with sensors and microchips will collect data and share it with other everyday objects, or things. Some...

If we really wanted to get nerdy about wearable technology (and we do), we’d point out that wearable tech has been around for thousand of years. The first fibers woven to create cloth were (1) wearable and (2) a new technology for the time. Down through history, wearable technology continued to advance as blacksmiths hammered out armor to when Elizabeth I of England received one of the first...

In 1965, Raymond Moore (co-founder of Intel) predicted that computer processing speed would double roughly every two years. So far, that’s proven to be true. Computers have gone from the size of a room to roughly the size of a book, phones are now “smart” and wearable tech is more and more common. Now we’re at the point where things really get interesting as the processing speeds we’re...

In the movie The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda dispenses a little Jedi advice to a self-defeating Luke who says, “I’ll give it a try.” Yoda responds with, “Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.” What!? We couldn’t disagree more! Trying is the first step of doing anything. In fact, success is sometimes only found after you try a thousand times. At Do Space we encourage you to try as many...

This entry is both sad and optimistic at the same time. It’s sad because there’s now a thing called The Great Pacific Garbage Patch made up of tiny, pea-sized bits of decomposing plastic. It’s a soupy, messy anomaly that’s about the size of Texas. The good news is that, while humans have caused the problem, we can also clean it up. Many people have started inventing robots that could do...

Art evolves just like technology, so much so that it’s reached a point where people begin to question if an object or painting is even art. So it helps to understand the perspective. Art had followed a predictable arc of painters gradually increasing their skill and learning to paint with increasing precision. Then some artists questioned if there were other ways to express emotion with paint....

Everyone lives in a state of “before,” the place right before innovation changes their world. Before the light bulb, everyone lived in a world where the night was illuminated with candle fire. It had been that way for centuries, so why think about new options? The problem with “before” is that we can get used to it and fail to see the possibilities. Instead, start challenging yourself to...

Google’s self-driving car has already racked up 1 million test miles without an accident. The technology is so impressive that some estimate there will be 10 million self-driving cars on the road by 2020. So, when you don’t need to drive, what do you do? Does your car now include a bed, or can the seats be rotated to create a mobile conference room? The future for car engineers, designers and...