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welcome back bre pettis from makerbot's alright and this is your first year i believe doing like a formal press conference press conference yeah for your products yeah it's one of those things where you know we've been here this is our fifth year here so its but it's great to be back and it's we dropped a lot of new stuff so we wanted to have a press conference so we could show it all off and really show people the whole ecosystem we're presenting all right well so tell me about the products that you showed up I know we covered the press conference but just a recap so you've got the MakerBot replicator mini this is the consumer 3d printer that we were presenting and it's nice and tidy but it's got it's no compromise it's got all it's got a professional you know MakerBot smart extruder it's got its network it's just it's got it's a very powerful machine in it tidy little packet would you call that the starter for people who don't have a 3d printer already yeah this would be a great place to start getting into 3d printing and exploring the frontier and then we've got the MakerBot replicator desktop and this this 3d printer is for the prosumer this is the machine that when we announced it on stage Lockheed Martin immediately called up and said we need these for engineers like the replicator brand has been around for a while this is the latest generation of it that's correct and so for people who want a larger print volume they want to be able to do a little more stuff get a little bit more product out of what they're printing and it's networked as well so you can either plug a USB stick into the front or you can connect it to an Ethernet cable or connected by USB or you can even connect wirelessly so you can connect with your phone and actually all of the machines were presenting have a camera on the inside of them so unless we feature right there previously you didn't have those so you can actually keep an eye on what your printing you go get a cup of tea and be like Oh it'll send you a message you know come get your come get your 3d model it's done and and that makes it all so easy to share on social networks like thingiverse cuz that's what I would majan that's probably the thing that when you're just starting out is the hardest thing to get around is the patients because it'd be pretty patient that for your object to come into the world right yeah I mean it does have the effect of like a kid a goldfish bowl and you're a kitten kind of its spellbinding watching you know your idea come to come to life right in front of your range you know um one of the big things that when we talk about 3d printing people go well what do I need it for I think this year you kind of really showed what a consumer can get out of it with with these toys that you can print can you tell us about the App Store and and how it works with like all the toys so we besides three machines and there's one more we launched a giant enormous MakerBot replicator z18 that and but you're you're absolutely right we decided we were going to just instead of waiting for people to cross the chasm to us into figuring out you know we get a lot of like well what am I going to get into 3d printing were like you know what we're just going to make you the coolest stuff so you want to make it and we made a grib unch of six different collections of collectibles and so like this one here this is a this is a chunky truck and we made a whole line of a whole construction set that you can make so you just go online and pick the toys you want or pick the whole set and like how much they cost they started 99 cents for each one and then 999 for the whole album or collection and you know my daughter's already like I want the pets like okay so it's one of those things where we made it easy and then we made content so that you know we realized like we kind of made the guitars of rock and roll the rock and roll era but with the 3d that these are sort of like the guitars we had to make the music so that people wanted to play me as I show but on the other hand though you are having people still submit their ideas there so that open community of people were cement their products there that other people can take and refine or print out themselves is that what this guy is or is this yeah as a call this is this is epic so our website thingiverse which is a community of creative people that people share their designs and this is the prosthetic hand for kids so normally prosthetic hands costs like tens of thousands of dollars when you have a MakerBot this costs like five dollars and kids grow out of them like sneakers so they usually don't get him right but this the community came up with this project shared it and now it's been downloaded more than 50,000 times and you know I've talked with kids who were born with an idiotic dancer and syndrome without any fingers and they went to their school this one kid Leon went to a school made a made a robo hand on it sunday curb out of school and he's used it to catch touchdowns so it's one of those things where it's not just for you know knickknacks these this is used for things that make a real difference in people's eyes but I can imagine with these smaller parts that are involved in this you could probably get away with printing this on one of the mini right it's made to be made on all the 3d printers for launching that's really great and so the pricing is the other interesting factory on the mini you've actually brought the price down dog lowest price yet for the entry-level consumer right yeah this is this is 1375 this one's 2899 and the ginormous one is 64 99 right so when you look at the build volume the features that you get its it's an amazing package we also launched I should mention we launched three new applications so it's not just here's three you know 3d printers we made it easy for people to connect on their mobile device we made a creative tool called MakerBot print chocolates that's for the iPad and then we've got the MakerBot desktop app where you can browse thingiverse in the new digital store right now wasn't also earlier it was earlier this year you guys talked about the laser scanner like wasn't that another announcement relatively recently that's another part of the whole MakerBot 3d system and the MakerBot digitizer is a desktop 3d scanner it you know a MakerBot takes I think about 3d printer takes digital designs and make some physical right the MakerBot digitizer takes physical things and make some digital so you can modify them and grab your the gnome out of your front yard scan it and add more beard that's great well breathe thanks so much for joining us here and showing off to make a bossa anyone here at CES and is encouraged to head over to the MakerBot booth and see what these things can really do we've got more for you here at the cnet stage so don't go anywhere there's a lot more happening today dan Ackman is going to be back here with the next wave of the newest laptops here at CES and at 11am check back here because i'm going to be launching a brand new show called the fix that a whole lot more happening right now so stay tuned