Category Archives: Tech news of the weird

Personalization is the wave of the future. You wouldn’t believe what you can get your kitty’s face printed on.

Our post about custom clothing company Construct led the T324 office to a discussion of personalized printing and on-demand custom product companies.

Store manager Brian remembered “back when I was a junior in high school” ordering “tons of stuff” from CafePress; your bloggess recalled Zazzle entering the field, with more refined products than CafePress, and their arms race for the sought-after black custom-printed t-shirt.

So we trotted over to Zazzle to see what else you can get custom-printed now, and it’s not just t-shirts and mugs!T324-Zazzle-laptop-sleeve-test

How about laptop bags and sleeves? I knew you could get a laptop skin, but the possibilities of sleeves are delightful!

The bags are spendy at $169.95, but made by SF hipster institution Rickshaw Bagworks and local, sustainable, blah, blah, blah. Continue reading

Constrvct makes clothes custom-fitted to a 3D model of your body, in your own custom fabric.

One of the top tech trends we talked about for 2013 is personalization– the ability to make things completely customized, on-demand.

A fascinating group of business models is emerging in response to new print and visualization technologies, and one of them is Constrvct, a custom clothing company created by two programmers on the East Coast.T324-Logo-on-Constrvct-dress

The Constrvct concept is that you upload images to create a fabric design and enter your measurements into an interactive 3D model of the garment you choose.

The garment is previewed live in your measurements with the design on it. You can spin the model around to see how your design appears from all angles!

If you like it, you order it, and Constrvct custom digitally prints the fabric, then cuts the pattern- with a laser or plotter- and sews the garment to your measurements. Continue reading