Gotta love how a post like this contributes absolutely nothing to the conversation, yet it still garners towards activity. Rather than take this off topic by poking fun, perhaps you'd have something brilliant to share in the thread?

Like the previous poster said, not everyone knows all the details about ASIC (let alone FPGA) so cut the TC some slack. Topic creator, you definitely have an idea that a lot of people have thought about at least once hypothetically speaking. Developing a PCB and the components to an ASIC or FPGA is very simple, however obtaining a design, even by hiring a well trained software engineer will still require you to invest a lot of money. The cheapest I have seen is no less than $30,000 for about 20 test chips with no guarantees that they will work, up into the millions of dollars. Because of its speculative nature, it would be hard to get a kickstarter going.

It's a huge thing, and the only thing holding you back is a chip design which costs a lot, and production which also costs you a lot. But as I said in my original post before, if you do somehow manage to crank a batch of these, let me know, and I may just buy the entire batch. :-)