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Published online 5 April 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050404-3
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High-tech home workshops could help grass-roots inventors in poor countries.
When people are given free rein, they create extraordinary things. That's what Neil Gershenfeld discovered when he gave them access to the right tools.
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