The Secret of the Apple’s Brick Project Revealed?

A rumors about a new Apple project named entitled "brick" has been floating around on the web for some time, and has been associated with several new hardware: ultra compact notebook, home file server, successor of the Apple TV...
The last version of this rumor would associate "brick" to a entirely new and revolutionary manufacturing process for notebook case. The company might have developed a process involving lasers and jets of water to get the case of future notebooks from a brick of aluminum, dropping all metal embossing technologies, and could even reduce the use of screws and hand working. Of course such technology would open the door of unlimited choice of shapes, and design, while bringing precision to a new frontier as parts would then perfectly adjust one in the others.
On a practical point of view, one will have to evaluate the cost of such process, and how Apple could have invested billions in such process. Of course, Aluminum pieces resulting from the process could be recycled to create new brick, or even better, old Alu notebook cases would then be recycled to create new ones. For sure, Apple would then capture the crone for the greenest notebook manufacturing company.