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A Wellington start-up has been chosen as one of 40 participants at San Francisco's TechCrunch40 conference.
Chosen from over 700 applicants, Ponoko's founders says it is the world's first personal manufacturing platform. Using its www.ponoko.com website, people can invent and design new products, then have them made to order, or sell their designs to others.
Founder David ten Have said Ponoko allowed anyone to turn an idea for a product into reality, by connecting designers and consumers to an international network of digital manufacturing hardware that could be controlled from any computer. The company also acted as a global marketplace for ideas and inventions, by allowing people to buy, sell and share designs, he said.
It meant it would be easier and cheaper to bring ideas to market, he said.
- NZPA
