Here are some of the most potentially interesting AI tools for jewellers I’ve seen emerge over the past few months.

Not too long ago a web service called 2Shapes was brought to my attention. Its premise is an interesting one - remote interactive bespoke design directly with a client. See what I have to think about it.

iJewel is a suite of well-integrated digital sales presentation tools which allow 3D CAD designers and businesses to display their work to clients and collaborators in an easy to customise and manipuate format.

In which I reference All3dp's highly useful annually updated list of top picks for 3D printers usable for jewellery manufacturing.

This video from The Guardian shows off some wonderful innovations in prosthetic design, including discussion about designing prosthetics for fashion.

After only a little more than a year of development, McNeel officially released the latest update to their Rhinocerous 3D software, Rhino version 7!

Sofia Hallik and Darja Popolitova at the Estonian Academy of Arts have released a fascinating article on digital contemporary jewellery. If you're interested in contemporary jewellery's relationship with digital design, have a look.

As part of the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Initiative, they've recently launched the eRosary smart jewellery and associated app. Yes, it's a real thing. And it's rather inventive, actually.

Swarovski has recently developed a potentially exciting new series of plug-ins to help jewellers add Swarovski crystals (and other gem stones of all sorts) to their designs. One plug-in is for Rhino, the other is for Adobe Illustrator. They call it Ennoble.io.

Recently UK newspaper the Independent released an article on the Georgia Institute of Technology's trial run for contraceptive jewellery.