Alibre Design brings bright ideas to the Dallas TEDxSMU 2010 event

Dallas, TX - Alibre, Inc., the value leader in the 3D CAD/CAM market, co-sponsored the TEDxSMU 2010 event, bringing the best ideas of today's minds together for two days of technological inspiration.

TEDxSMU & TEDxKIDS brings together ideas and interesting people from around the world and around the corner. This past Friday and Saturday in Dallas the brightest minds in areas of technology, entertainment and design gathered to bring the best ideas together to make us think.

Alibre Inc., and the J Paul Grayson Foundation helps bring this event to Dallas through sponsorship and allows presenters to have access to their award winning design software, Alibre Design. In fact one of the key presenters Nathan Huntoon, Director of the Innovation Gymnasium at Southern Methodist University, uses Alibre Design in the SkunkWorks Lab on campus with his students. Together with Austin Hodges and several other students, Huntoon designed and built a GPS controlled unmanned vehicle that is controlled via a cell phone interface.

The SkunkWorks Team used Alibre Design to design and place all the parts of their vehicle, before they ever built it. Huntoon stated, "What is amazing is the students designed the vehicle in 3D first and when it came time to fit all the parts together, every piece fell in place perfectly." The unique vehicle pictured on the right can be seen live in action at the TEDxSMU event here on YouTube.

At Fridays TEDxKIDS event inventor Mark Mankiewicz brought out his String Theory YoYos Team. Mark invented a line of professional aluminum YoYos that are designed in Alibre Design. He takes his 3D model and sends it out over the Internet to manufacturers to be made. These brightly colored Yoyos are anodized and laser engraved and sold to people all over the world for master play using advanced YoYo techniques. While Jamie Larkins and Mason McCall and Leo Qin amazed everyone with their skills, Mark spoke of how he created his business and inspired the crowd with his "can do" attitude. Mark stated, "It was a great honor to present at TEDxKIDS, I have always been a fan. I was hoping to convey a message of hope to future entrepreneurs that anything is possible and never listen to people who tell you it can't be done. If your heart follows your passion you can never fail"