"This makes me feel bad.  As a parent, I am not sure how I should feel.  This at least provides an option.  But feel like it means so much more and says so much more. "

"I see your point, but you are arguing for setting people up for failure by saying they don't need to draw well. If you draw well you will more then likely find work if you don't draw well who knows. I personally believe sketching is more important then ever. The reason, in a world were things move very fast. The fastest way to generate concepts that people will connect with is sketching. Nothing is faster. The better you are the faster the idea will come and it will be more appealing. But I agree sketching is but one tool. But it is a tool that really only a designer does it makes us different from an engineer. In my professional work I show sketches for about 1/8 of a presentation on a new product. The rest is story. Everything else in the presentation could have been made by anyone. The sketches are what makes it my design presentation. They are cumulation of all the previous info and arguable the swaying aspect of the presentation.  Sketches are worth money for not only the fact they show the design before anything else could have been made but also they show the embodiment of all the research and thought that went into the design."

"I see you missed one that is worth noting. It is the Colnago and Ferrari mountain bike.  I thought it was quite nice when it came out.  I think the year was 1998 or 2000 and it was around $11,000.  "

"I feel this should be sent to the Feds.  I believe this is pretty much fraud.  There is no way they can delivery any of these features.  I looked at the money tearing but it is not in till they raise 1 million dollars will they be able to do even a screen.  I am not sure that is even enough money.  This will exploded in a few years.  There are going to be some pretty angry people.  Even if the tech was wide spread and mass produced they still have a problem of not being able to produce a patterned screen as you would fabric.  There are huge problems with this project."

"You can kind of do the same thing with vinyl.  They basically slip cast vinyl for the designer toys."