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RepRap. A 3-d printer...

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Fancy constructing your own 3-d things. Like, say, components, glasses, etc ? Up till now, its been hideously expensive to get one of these machines. But now there's an open-source, self-replicating machine available... Check out RepRap

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Gravatar Image1 - Cool! If you'll build one, I'm the first in queue to get the first replica copy it will build from itself Emoticon

Gravatar Image2 - I love things like this. A friend used to have a company that made knobs for furniture, they use to prototype on a device like this.

I also love things like this:
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The idea of designing something and having access to someone else's CNC machine is really cool.

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