If you live in Northern or Southern California, KETIV is hosting a Manufacturing Academy.
The Academy provides local access to world-class information that are taught by pros—the engineers, designers, and support people who do this every day. They'll share their years of experience on what works and what doesn't.
For those of you that have been lucky enough to find a Nintendo Wii and wonder what else you can use that Wiimote for - now you can use it to navigate your 3D models around on your PC. The folks over at labs.autodesk.com have recently posted a way to connect the Wiimote to Design Review. If you don't have a Wii and would like to try this out, you can still purchase a Wiimote for about $40 since that is all you need (it works through Bluetooth).
If you are interested on how this can be done today head on over to the labs site and check it out. I also ran across a video that has already been posted of somebody doing this if you would like to see it in action.
Without knowing you have probably seen this mechanical horse in several Hollywood productions. The most recent was in Super Bowl XXII where Shaquille O’Neal is a jockey in a horse race, ultimately winning by “his own” nose.
The horse was initially designed for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and has had an appearance in other Hollywood titles.
Datum3 had to design and ship a lifelike mechanical horse in 21 days and needed to be as creative as possible to pull off the deign. Datum3 created a digital prototype of the horse using Inventor then manufactured and assembled it in just seven days.
Take a look at the Datum3 website for more information and other interesting projects they have been involved in.
You've got to start young to be a techno-wizard in the 21st century. Read how youngsters in Michigan are using Dynamic Designer and Inventor at a Virtual Simulation Summer Camp.