deposit or assemble digital materials. this means tiny building blocks will be designed to put together perfectly, analogous to legos snapping together. just as pixels make up images on >> what are essentially 3d pixel, which will make up physical objects. >> where the research is heading, again, the "star trek" replicator which builds from the atoms on up. at a real molecular level you assemble anything. that still may be 20 years away. >> while we wait for the "star trek" replicator. a fab lab was opened that cre e creates fabrication machines for local entrepreneurs in the community. >> sweat up a community lab in between the research tools on campus and "star trek" replicator in the future. it was maybe $50,000 worth of machines and that was the whole