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Watch This Pen Draw Objects In Midair [Video]

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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Dave Mosher Posted 03.04.2013 at 3:00 pm 8 Comments

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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RanoOnay
03/04/2013 at 3:09 pm

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.
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Newbeak5
03/04/2013 at 3:10 pm

Glorified hot glue gun!
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zerox012
03/04/2013 at 8:55 pm

Ok nice, soon we'll have 3d grafitti that we can bump into...
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nevetsgne
03/04/2013 at 9:56 pm

So basically, a pen that draws pubic hair.
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ghost
03/05/2013 at 2:07 am

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!
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bgwainscott1
03/07/2013 at 5:43 pm

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!
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Lexi123
07/27/2013 at 12:38 pm

just before I checked out the bill of exchange of $5122, I did not believe that...my... brothers friend was actualey receiving cash part-time from there new portable computer.. there dads pal has been doing this for beneath fifteen months and recently cleard the morgage on their appartment and bourt a brand new Ford Focus. we have a tendency to looked here...... www.bay95.com
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JPSullivan
11/25/2013 at 11:05 am

This is one the most pathetic things I have ever seen.
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