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it's March 8 2013 I'm Thomas Houston and I'm not just your host I'm your friend this is 90 seconds on the verge presented by motorola 3d printing company MakerBot has announced IRL copy and paste it's a prototype desktop 3d scanner called the digitizer and uses a combination of cameras and lasers to scan objects and turn them into digital files they can then be printed out on the company's line of 3d printers no experience in 3d modeling necessary there's no word yet on price release date or whether you can clone your own digitizer with digitizer speaking of 3d printing this time-honored tradition is now being used in one unexpected place up here earlier this week a patient in the US had 75% of his skull replaced with a 3d printed prosthetic the implant was approved by the FDA last month the company behind the implant says it can create similar pieces in just two weeks finally if you were phantom the battlestar galactica reboot get ready series creator Ronald D Moore has a new show on the way thus I fly network has ordered 13 episodes of a new project called helix with more serving as executive producer it's about a group of scientists who travel to the Arctic to look into a possible disease outbreak they find themselves drawn into a quote terrifying life-and-death struggle that holds the key to mankind's salvation or Total Annihilation series premieres 2014 we're still waiting to hear if Wilford Brimley and Kurt Russell have agreed to join the cast and that's it for today's top stories stay tuned for our South by Southwest elevator pitch of the day all right it's called think brain pull your friends telepathically it's gonna be big