A rapid prototyping platform called VIK (Voxel Invention Kit) enables makers without engineering expertise to create large-scale interactive devices using a series of reconfigurable electromechanical ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Amazon Fire Phone, Google Glass, New Coke and Nintendo’s Virtual Boy: What do all these products have in common? They didn’t sell.

Imagine a world where brainstorming, prototyping, and automating complex tasks could happen seamlessly in one place—without the usual headaches of juggling multiple tools or wrestling with technical ...