Absolut Downloads: It Is Already Happening at Ponoko
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 09.20.07
While we talk about the promise of downloadable designs, it in fact is already happening, Ponoko (previously on TreeHugger here) does it all: designers can upload their flatpack designs, purchasers can buy them and shops are hired to laser-cut them out. They call it "the world's first personal manufacturing platform. It's the online space for a community of creators and consumers to use a global network of digital manufacturing hardware to co-create, make and trade individualized product ideas on demand."
You can download the wine rack shown above as an example of how it works. ::Ponoko and ::In An Absolut World Everything is Downloadable
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