This is the look of the future

There is this article about Awesome Multicolor Reprap printing. But what I mean by 'the look of the future' is these gears:

They look almost steampunk. Those decorative details are a feature you don't see in modern gears very often. I suspect they would complicate standard manufacturing. Even if not, the realities of mass production makes it difficult to get something that is not a standard style.
The look of the future is decorative detail added to almost any part of any device.

3-D Printing's Legal Morass

Clive Thompson on 3-D Printing's Legal Morass

I think this will be even harder to stop than media filesharing. (and that's a good thing)

Filabot: Plastic Filament Maker

Filabot: Plastic Filament Maker by Tyler McNaney — Kickstarter

Nanoengineer-1

"NanoEngineer-1™ is an open-source (GPL) 3D multi-scale modeling and simulation program for nano-composites with special support for structural DNA nanotechnology. It features an easy-to-use interactive 3D graphical user interface for designing and modeling large, atomically precise composite systems.

For simulation and analysis, NanoEngineer-1 supports multiple molecular dynamics and quantum mechanics systems in a single environment, providing a wide range of nano-scale simulation capabilities."

This software is abundantly Awesome:

• Surprisingly easy to use
• Open Source
• Simulates individual Atoms

Dig up a plastic fork

More on the intersection of Minecraft and 3D printers.

Minecraft.Print()

Case for Mars

Printing a [Model] Building

Metalab - Architecture Modeling with the RepRap from Christian Benke

This doesn't look like it's a reprap to me, or at least not a standard one. Am I wrong?