This is the fifth year Makerbot has been to CES, and they have moved from a 10-by-10 booth to a jam packed press conference in the Mandalay Bay. The company has now sold more than 44,000 units and users have downloaded more than 48 million digital designs from its website, Thingiverse. It has opened three retail stores in New York, Boston, and Greenwich, Connecticut. Today it announced a new model, the Makerbot Replicator Mini, a smaller, cheaper unit which CEO Bre Pettis called the "point and shoot" model of the Makerbot family. "It's basically one touch, set up for speed. It's the point and shoot of 3D printers."
The device has a connected camera to monitor progress and make it easy to share images to social networks. It connects...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/6/5281882/makerbot-replicator-mini-announced-ces-2014
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