Shibuya, Tokyo is now home to Fab Café, a coffee house with a public use laser cutter. Just walk in with a vector design and your material and enjoy a cup of coffee while the laser does its thing. According to Spoon & Tamago, the café opened on March 7th and is operated by Loftwork, a local digital media production company. [via NOTCOT]
Thanks to masakiishitani on flickr for the above photos of Fab Café.
Matt Richardson is a Brooklyn-based creative technologist, contributing editor for MAKE magazine, and co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi. He's also the owner of Awesome Button Studios, a technology consultancy. Highlights from his work include the Descriptive Camera (a camera which outputs a text description instead of a photo) and The Enough Already (a DIY celebrity-silencing device). Matt's work has been featured at The Nevada Museum of Art, The Rome International Photography Festival, Milan Design Week and has garnered attention from The New York Times, Wired, and New York Magazine.
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This is totally cool. I would love going there and I hate coffee! This is a huge idea, for access and collaboration.
Why doesn’t Kinkos do something like this? Get a 3d printer and a laser cutter in those shops for public use.
Yeah …. I hope they have some restrictions … No coffee goes well with the chemical death smell of lasered acrylic!
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