The Personal Factory Is Here--and It Will Bring a Wild New Era of Invention

The software startup launching out of a garage or a dorm room is now the stuff of legend. We can all name the stories of people who got together in a garage with a few computers and ended up disrupting massive, established corporations -- or creating something the world never even knew it wanted. Until now, this hasn't really been as true for physical things you build from the ground up. The cost of tools and production has been too high, and for top quality, you still had to go at it the tradit...