It's good to see cutting edge design and technology being used enable people with disabilities, like Phillip Meyer's braille comic book, Life. Now Yahoo Japan have just created the Hands On Search machine, a device designed to help visually impaired children create objects simply by asking for it for them.

Children simply need to state what they are looking for, and the machine uses voice recognition technology to locate a 3-D file for an object online and then prints it out using the in-built 3D printer. If there is no data for a specific thing, ads are posted for it to be created.