A new 3D scanner has sent the Internet into a frenzy, with the MakerBot website crashing within hours of its new Digitizer device being available for pre-order. The desktop scanner costs US$1,400 ...

Awesome that such sci-fi things become reasonably affordable, but a bit sad that the fidelity is low: dimensional accuracy of 2mm means that it can produce models that look like an original, rather ...

More: Alan Lowne, CEO, Saelig Co. Inc. Fairport, NY: Saelig Company, Inc. (www.saelig.com) announces the availability of tDigitizer Imagehe MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner, which uses laser line ...

I was on hand at MakerBot Industries' Brooklyn headquarters for the first press demo of the company's Digitizer 3D scanner. Following a talk by MakerBot's CEO, Bre Pettis, we were given a ...

BROOKLYN, USA: What's black and white and has lasers? The MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner! The MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner is a fast and easy way for anyone to create 3D models.

Since 2009, MakerBot has been supplying hackers of 3D space the sophisticated tools necessary for transporting the bits and bytes of the digital realm into the physical world. Their latest ...

Pettis said that the idea for the Digitizer came about when he wanted a 3D scanner but found no affordable or usable tools on the market, so they decided to make one themselves. The most important ...

I was on hand at MakerBot Industries' Brooklyn headquarters for the first press demo of the company's Digitizer 3D scanner. Following a talk by MakerBot's CEO, Bre Pettis, we were given a ...

News: American 3D printing company MakerBot has unveiled a prototype of a desktop scanner that will allow users to digitally scan objects they want to replicate with a 3D printer at home. Launching ...

The MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner is heading to the UK care of tech retailer Dynamism. Previously announced for a US launch, the scanner will cost £1,190 over here. Its purpose is to link to a ...

There have been a host of 3D scanners introduced this year. Some of them were designed as desktop models. Others went with hand-held designs. Examples include the NextEngine 3D scanner (pitched by Jay ...