( CNN ) -- In a world of mass-marketed gadgets designed to be trashed and replaced after a few years , is there room for the Egg-Bot , a machine that lets you design and draw images on ... you guessed it ... eggs ? Or how about the DODOcase , a hand-crafted cover for the iPad and other tablets that can be personalized to look like your favorite book ? Dominic Muren thinks so . That 's why he started The Humblefactory . Located in Seattle , Washington , Humblefactory aims to develop and design tools that help `` makers '' around the world build items that more mainstream manufacturers ca n't ... or wo n't . From designing actual tools to researching the best ways to create small manufacturing businesses in urban areas , The Humblefactory is designed to spur a movement that , in itself , was spurred by modern business practices . Muren says that , even with history 's largest range of mass-produced products available on the market , they 're just that -- mass produced . Consumers , he says , actually have a harder time finding products that suit their personal wants and needs . Enter the `` makers . '' Inspired in part by do-it-yourself Bible `` Make '' magazine and the book , `` Makers , '' that spun off from it , `` makers , '' Muren says , are an emerging subculture of designers and engineers inspired to create with individual interests , not mass-market appeal , in mind . `` In the U.S. and Europe , people are starting to realize that there 's this opportunity to make again , '' Muren said . `` I think in the rest of the world , they 're kind of like 'Well , is n't it funny you all call this 'making . ' We 've been doing this forever . That 's one of the things that 's exciting to me is the meeting of those two places. `` At last Fall 's PopTech conference in Camden , Maine , he talked up some of the products that have been created with the help of Humblefactory , and other creations from the `` maker movement '' including the aforementioned Egg-Bot . `` They sell , actually , quite a lot of them , '' he said . `` Imagine trying to buy one of these at Best Buy . Probably not going to happen . '' Or the DODOcase , which he says single-handedly saved a 50-year-old book-binding company in San Francisco and allowed them to add 10 new jobs during the height of the recession . The maker movement he aims to support , Muren says , is n't just about making new products available . In many cases , he says , it 's the creator , not the consumer , who gets the most satisfaction . `` I think that 's the fundamental thing behind the wonder in the maker movement , '' he said . `` This idea that , 'Wow ... the difference between nothing and something was me . ' `` CNN 's John Sutter and Brandon Ancil contributed to this report .
Seattle Workshop aims to ' do - it - yourself ` ` makers '' create products . The Humblefactory sells products to small manufacturers . ` ` makers '' create what traditional manufacturers ca n't , or wo n't , create .