Instant manufacturing or manufacturing as a service is on the rise. I read this article over on wired.com. It's a pretty cool concept. You submit your blue prints/designs to an instant manufacturing facility and when someone orders your design they manufacturer it and ship it. You then give them the cost of manufacturing it and you're left with pure profit. That's pretty cool, no inventory to manage along with the costs of keeping an inventory and no manufacturing facility and the associated costs of that.

Welcome to the age of the instapreneur. With nothing more than a design, amateurs can manufacture jewelry, robots, T-shirts, furniture — anything. No warehouses. No minimum orders. And no money down.

Now that's pretty cool