Neurodudes go offtopic (!) to write about the fab lab from MIT. The project comes under the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms.

…which broadly explores how the content of information relates to its physical representation… an ambitious interdisciplinary initiative that is looking beyond the end of the Digital Revolution to ask how a functional description of a system can be embodied in, and abstracted from, a physical form…

Hmm… The mission statements sound nice.