Jack William Bell's Journal: Personal Nanofacturing

Chris Phoenix has published a design for a personal 'Nanofactory'. Quote: "This paper describes the mechanisms, structures, and processes of a prototypical macro-scale, programmable nanofactory composed of many small fabricators." It seems this design could build many products, including a duplicate nanofactory. Of course it would be even more cool if the nanotechnology existed to create the first one...

Update: Submitted to /. front page.
Update update: Rejected.
Update update grumble: What? They rejected a story on nanotechnology, but accepted one on talking shopping carts? What is up with that?