The maker community has helped on that front, as well, with MakerBot's Thingiverse serving as an unparalleled resource for 3D images, meaning that, once your printer's all set up and calibrated, you can download and print to your hearts delight -- but what if, say, you want to print up something that some kindly soul hasn't designed for you?

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Your product design requires some soul: We all have had our share of badly designed tech-products.

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The flavor of critical thinking is gone, replaced by things designed to appeal to the interests of readers and subscribers, but lacking soul.

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