*Okay, much as I like fab labs, I'm not really believing this, as the installed base who run cities aren't gonna passively sit there and watch geeks with fabricators melt their power-structure.

Fab labs, community workshops filled with computers and digital fabrication tools such as 3-D printers, are the next big thing in the world of architecture. There’s no serious architecture school or ...

“Who else gets to play with lasers all day?” asks engineer John Ford against the background of a high-pitched beep-beep-beep and whirring of machinery. Ford gestures to a laser he programed to cut a ...

FAB11 invites you to submit your proposal for the second edition of the GLOBAL FAB AWARDS, an international initiative that recognises the power of creation and collaboration through digital ...

IN this digital age there are surprising uses for the technology in both work and play. The latest is the Fab Lab (fab apparently for fabulous), a digital fabrication lab. I learned something about ...

Give a man a gadget, and you feed his tech needs for a day. Teach him to make gadgets, and he can feed himself — and a few savvy venture capitalists — for life. Such is the thinking of Neil ...

Gahanna-Jefferson high school and middle school students have access to new tools to explore career paths, thanks to a new MIT fabrication laboratory known as the "Fab Lab." The lab, financed through ...