Brave New World: 3-D printer hits the market
/The MakerBot, a new 3-D printer that creates molded objects from molten plastic, has hit the market. The consumer-grade printer can hook up to any computer and "prints" three-dimensional objects. The device was created by a Brooklyn-based company of the same name two years ago.
The MakerBot retails for about $1,300 and gives "anybody with a computer and an idea the same creative horsepower, and artists are beginning to take notice," Melena Ryzik wrote in a recent
.
Read the rest of this article
.
