By Megan McCarthy 11/16/11 10:30am

12 to Watch in 2012

Episode 3: Bre Pettis of Makerbot – Digital Designs Become Real Things

Welcome to 12 to Watch in 2012, a new web series profiling some of New York’s top minds doing innovative things with technology and design.

Meet Bre Pettis, a founder of Makerbot, a Brooklyn-based company that makes machines that make things. Makerbot is a 3-D printer that can turn any design you dream up into a plastic 3-D object, so you can create your own toys, statues, remote control cars, models of locks and keys, anything that you want to see and touch – all from your own design. Read More

By admin 1/28/11 4:40pm

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Apps for the Appocalypse

Bre Pettis predicted that the internet would go down in 2011, and since his predication recently came true in Eygpt, Pettis thinks it’s time to start planning for a similar event stateside. 

“How would you contact the ones you love if the cell/internet networks went down? How would you get the news out to the Read More