The UK’s first Fab Lab – a mini high tech factory for prototyping and product development – has opened in Manchester.
Based on an initiative from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, the community based innovation centre is dubbed as allowing anyone to build almost anything. Inventions created at the centre already include a baby’s bottle with an inbuilt colour changing temperature gauge; a toothbrush with an inbuilt MP3 player; a folding travel carry…
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