Top Ten Gadgets for Architects and Designers

A selection of top gadgets for Architects and Designers

We pick 10 of NM Cabling's favourite gadgets from this year, including a 360 camera, 3D pen and a fold up computer.

	3D printing pen A team of London-based designers claim to have created the world's smallest 3D-printing pen – an anodised aluminium device called Lix that allows users to "doodle in the air"

	Rolltop is a portable computer development concept for designer, architects and others
	Digital Caliper Calliper, measuring tape and protractor, that translate real-time measurements to the screen by manually using a tool on an existing material or object.
	Pull Clean a new type of hospital door handle to tackle the spread of germs around medical facilities. A hospital door handle that dispenses hand sanitizer. By moving hand cleaning to an object that people are already constantly using throughout the day.
	An inkjet printer that sits on top of a stack of paper and eats its way down through the pile. Stack printer by industrial designer Mugi Yamamoto is simply placed on top of a pile of A4 paper, rather than loading paper into the device in batches. The sheets are fed through rollers underneath the machine and exit on the top.
	Digital Device to Draw Measure If you have ever drafted by hand for work or pleasure, you know that straight lines are hard to sketch or trace by pen or pencil without something as your guide – and laying down the ruler, triangle or square each time takes, well, time. What if you could just snap something onto your drawing tool instead?
	Scanner for iPad A scanner can be a useful tool for road warriors, but travelling with one of those all-in-one office machines is just impractical. Instead, consider the svelte iConvert which easily stashes in your carry-on and digitizes documents directly into your iPad.
	Wireless speaker light bulb  Appropriately named AudioBulb, the revolutionary device allows you to use up to eight light bulbs as speakers, connected wirelessly to your iPhone/iPod or any other auxiliary input
	Olloclip 4-in-1 lens system for the iPhone, includes one fish-eye, one wide-angle, and two macro lenses. Works with all your favorite photo and video apps and in panorama mode.
	The Ricoh Theta single-shot 360-degree panoramic camera. A spherical camera that captures the space around you with just one touch.

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