Autodesk introduced a couple new things this week: a mechanical engineering game for the iPad and an update to Autodesk Homestyler. Autodesk Homestyler (www.homestyler.com) is an online tool for home design & interior decorating. Lay out floor plans, add furniture, appliances, and decorations from actual manufacturers, and visualize your new space in 3D quickly and easily. It’s a web-based program, so there’s no software to install. Just log in and go! The new release includes a faster, expanded product catalog (where you can save your favorite items to your personal catalog), and profiles that organize your design information for easier access later and for view on mobile devices. Check it out today at www.homestyler.com/designer. Autodesk Tinkerbox (www.tinkerboxnews.com) is a physics puzzle game designed to get teens and young people excited about engineering. STEM careers (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) are growing faster than ever, but they’re perceived as “hard” subjects. Hopefully toys like Tinkerbox will put the “fun” back in physics…for kids of all ages. (If you have more fun with it than the teenager it’s supposed to be for…I won’t tell if you don’t.) Download your copy on the app store (http://autode.sk/g1hm9e) today!

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