I’ve joined the two-wheel commuter society, in the form of a Tomos Moped. It’s a 49cc motorbike with pedals, and falls into a dusty corner of the Highway Traffic Act (regulations for Ontario roads). It has pedals, requires a license plate, but doesn’t require a motorbike license. I get somewhere close to 100 miles per…

Now this is cool. Wired.com published this article about a company called emachineshop.com. The concept is really simple: you design parts using their free downloadable CAD software, upload the finished CAD drawing to them, they build it, FedEx ships it. Once you’ve designed it you can price it out using a variety of materials. There’s…