Ponoko.com - Embrace Your Creative Side

"The post-industrial revolution is changing the way products are created, traded and distributed. Now everyone can engage in the manufacturing process through their PCs - bringing personal manufacturing of individualized products to the masses. Ponoko is 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.The ponoko.com marketplace connects creators, consumers, digital manufacturing hardware and service providers to promote, make and trade products on Ponoko and social networking websites."

Not only is Ponoko.com a creative site it also makes buying products less expensive and helps the environment. For example if you are searching for a product you can find one that is located close to you and avoid shipping that is both expensive and damages the environment. Finding original one of a kind products is easy with Ponoko.com and designing products and collaborating with others is also easy.

Ponoko.com gives you materials to make your design out if, such as acrylic and wood, but if you are interested in using materials that Ponoko.com doesn´t supply you are out of luck. According to the facts and questions section of the Ponoko site, it seems as though your product will not come out as you imagined at first. How long does it take you to finally produce a product that comes out as the designer imagines? At the moment buys cannot pay designers online, but Ponoko.com is working on that feature.