OK, United Artists is a cool idea. GroupOn sounds worthless as you describe it. The idea is simply to create enough aggregate demand to commission and design a

OK, United Artists is a cool idea. GroupOn sounds worthless as you describe it. The idea is simply to create enough aggregate demand to commission and design a product in small batches, even though you aren't dealing with a mass market product. Such a model would go very well with any of the open source design initiatives out there where plans/designs for physical goods are worked on and improved upon by the Internet community at large to everyone's benefit.