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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Bre Pettis said the Replicator 2.0 was aimed at the "prosumer" - either a design professional or a hardcore hobbyist. The device costs $2,199 (£1,360) and builds objects up in layers only 100 microns thick. In previous versions, each layer was about 270 microns thick.</span></div>
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</span></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px">This, and a laser scanner, and you can</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px">make your own copy of a Neanderthal </span></font></div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px">or Hobbit skull. Or maybe a case for </span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px">that RPi. A bust of your very own head?</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px">The technology has been around for </span></font></div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px">decades, but clearly is getting cheaper,</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px">and better. It must have some real </span></font></div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px">uses.... e.g. prototyping, modelling,</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px">etc.</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px"> -- Bob</span></font></div>
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