>>Even cooler: I've been interesting 3D printing for a while and there are already services where you can design something using some opensource 3d modeling software, upload the design to a service and in a week have your gizmo back 3D printed in any one of a number of materials at what I think is a very reasonable price ( quite a number of places offering the service. Good way to get some return on investing a 3D printer.)
I'm hanging out for the Replicator. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
