Wow. Even in its raw state the art is beautiful. Surely has industrial potential. Someone in the UK invents something and then we loose it. I hope not. Should be called the Royal college of commercial arts

now I can make the ultimate sand castle!

Can you build a house like this?

@Justin, My thoughts exactly!

I do not know what the initial cost would be, but this looks like a game changer for poor communities in Africa. Imagine a community pools its money to buy one of these. They then produce many of the things they need for free from local sand. Bricks for houses (maybe shaped so they fit together like leggos or something so you do not need mortar), household implements like pottery, maybe even furniture, some tools like light gardening tools (if the glass is not too brittle). Each person could pay a small amount for the products to pay back for the machine. It would make a great cottage industry.

Kayser\'s idea is actually pretty old. For instance, Martin Caidin released \"High Crystal,\" his third Steve Austin novel, back in 1974. The plot had a concentrated solar power furnace built by an ancient civilization inside a pyramid.

Now if we can just make the items GLASSY and smooth.... and perhaps with the FINE detail aspect - this could be very useful....
The industrial grinding stone effect, however, is quite charming too.

I think it\'d be FASTER to make bowls and stuff out of CLAY then kiln fire them. I\'d say that bowl took quite a few hours to produce judging by the real-time speed of the thing, but it sure does have potential!

Realizing that a tool that is hot enough to melt sand is hot enough for a lot of other things, this is pretty amazing.

If it can melt sand it can melt steel and many other metals. Put some thinking on that for this device.