Vince (CTO of SharableThings.com) suggested a blog posting about http://www.100Kgarages.com.

The 100Kgarages website landing page starts out: "During the 2007 US Presidential debates, Tom Brokaw asked candidates Obama and McCain whether our challenges would be best solved by ... "funding a Manhattan-style project or by supporting 100,000 garages across America to encourage the kind of industry and innovation that developed Silicon Valley?"

The website puts people with designs that need fabricating in touch with the "garages" that can fabricate them.

Are websites like 100Kgarages themselves Brokaw's "garages"? They are springing up everywhere in our new backyard, the World Wide Web, to help people get new things done.