We catch up with the brains behind the 3Doodler, a plastic-melting pen that lets you draw 3-D objects in midair.
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Toymaker Maxwell Bogue of 3Doodler
David Mosher
Even the best consumer 3-D printers require a whole lot of brains to create the simplest plastic tchotchke. Toymaker Maxwell Bogue doesn't think creative expression in three dimensions should be so hard, so he created the 3Doodler: a plastic-melting pen that lets you draw objects in midair.
We've covered the pen before. But we still wanted to catch up with Bogue at the recent 2013 Kairos Global Summit on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to see just what this little gadget could do:
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I used to do this with hot glue guns when I was a kid. Yay, only took how long until it became a real thing? But joking aside, this is pretty cool and there are some great uses it can be applied toward.
Glorified hot glue gun!
Ok nice, soon we'll have 3d grafitti that we can bump into...
So basically, a pen that draws pubic hair.
this isn't just a pen that draws in 3 dimensions it's also a pen that can become a 3-d printer with the right structure.
i wonder what we COULD do with this...
to mars or bust!
what an amazing time to exsist on this planet. Caught up in so many life changing discoveries in the present,past and the fu
ture...Can't wait to see more...ty for the video!