Spime Watch: Automated Custom Manufacturing

(((Nice Ponoko coverage here. These fabbers are the darlings of the press.)))

Link: Technology Review: Automated Custom Manufacturing.

"With its user-friendly design templates, rapid-manufacturing technology, and online marketplace, a company called Ponoko intends to help bring an end to the era of mass production. Instead, it believes, its service opens up the way to mass individualization–the creation of one-of-a-kind products by way of user-driven design and manufacturing...."