$499 3-D Printer Drew Plenty of Attention at CES (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on Monday January 27, 2014 @05:35AM from the next-year-maybe-we'll-have-4-dimensional-printing dept.

3-D printing is far from new, but a $499 3-D printer is new enough to get a bunch of people to write about it, including someone whose headline read, CES 2014: Could 3D printing change the world? XYZPrinting, the company behind the da Vinci 1.0 printer, has some happy-looking executives in the wake of CES. They won an award, and their booth got lots of attention. This is what trade shows are all about for small and/or new companies. Now the XYZprinting people can go home and pump out some product -- assuming they got a lot of orders (and not just attention) at CES.

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Yeah yeah by NaughtyNimitz · 2014-01-27 05:45 · Score: 5, Insightful

But what will the cartridges cost? And will they 'expire' each time I unwrap and insert one?
("Nudge nudge, wink wink HP?")
"So you buy the filaments from us...." by macraig · 2014-01-27 05:51 · Score: 5, Insightful

Proprietary consumables? Seriously? When are we gonna get past this crap? Ever?