Imagine if you have a much more fun and convenient way of carrying and taking your child out.  Well, imagine no more because Taga has a really nice product like that.  It's a "bike stroller" - a bike that can be converted into a baby stroller and vice versa.

What's the coolest way of stacking your markers neatly and orderly?  Well if you can arrange them in-line and make them stand up on their own.  Doron Livne is the designer of this Felt Tip Marker.

If you have ever tried chopping garlic and onions in your life, you would know that it's no longer fun when your eyes start to tear and your nose starts to twitch with irritation.  Luckily Jang Young Jin designed a wonderful product that would instantly chop garlic and onions easily and instantly.  He calls it the Garlizi.

Professional carpenter Dalton Ghetti has been creating this amazing works of art for the last 25 years.  As a side project, Dalton Ghetti skillfully carves and creates miniatures and micro sculptures on a tip of a graphite pencil.

Liquid Light, is an industrial light art design by Tanya Clarke, a talented Canadian artist and daughter to leading and political activist Tony Clarke.

Liquid light is basically composed of recycled industrial pipes and fittings and faucets attached with a nice looking  handcrafted glass drop design, lit by LEDs from the tip of the faucets.

Wanting to draw a straight line easily?  Here's a nice design by Korean product designer Giha Woo.  A pen attachment that can help you draw straight lines.

Called the "Constrained Ball", this attachment can be easily attached on any pen and can help you draw straight lines, horizontally or vertically.

Littlehampton, West Sussex in Britain is home to possibly the Longest Bench in the world.  Designed by Studio Weave, this bench can seat over 300 people and is approximately 324 meters in length.  Part of a large waterfront redevelopment, this bench moves along specific points on the beach, adapting to the contour and its environment.

Autodesk has released a statement on their AREA website that they have been planning to redesign and reconfigure 3ds Max to improve its workflow, interface and overall performance.  They are currently calling it the Excalibur or XBR. 

Apparently, according to their statement, they have accidentally leaked the information out to the public during the AU 2009 in Las Vegas last December, thus their statements on the web.

Autodesk UK has just launched an online contest for all those talented 3d artists from the UK and Italy. 

Are you a 3D Star?

Autodesk is hoping the find the next 3d Star and it just might be you, if you're brave enough to join.  Anyone of legal age can join.  If you are a designer, recent graduate, student or a well-talented person using any of Autodesk's software, it's your chance to showcase your 3d talent to the whole world.

Having converted my computer to a 64 bits Windows 7 from an old 32-bits Windows XP,  I installed and tried using 3ds max 64 bits version.  I was using the 32 bit 3ds max version before on a 32 bit windows XP and was doing fine until I used a 3ds max 2010 64 bit version installed on my girlfriend's laptop running on windows 7. I immediately noticed a difference between using the 32 bit version and the 64 bit version and it actually amazed me.

I am one of those people who really tried to save up on memory while using 3ds max by constantly checking up on the polygon count and then checking on my rendering settings, which was set to the V-Ray rendering system.  I also look at 3ds max's memory usage on the status window while it renders the scene.