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If you’re desperately trying to browse the store or arrange a Replicator order, you might have noticed that things are a little slow…well, it looks like we’re getting Slashdotted like it was 1999!  We’re bringing a few more servers on-line to help deal with the load, but in the meantime, check out this Slashdot-produced video where Bre breaks down the features of our newest machine.

TechCrunch: Gadget Podcast

BBC: CES 2012: 3D Printer Makers’ Rival Visions of Future

PopSci: MakerBot Replicator Prints a Plastic Bust of Stephen Colbert

LiveScience: MakerBot Replicator Prints Bigger, More Colorful Objects

Consumer Search: The neatest ‘Thing’ at CES

Gizmodo: Best Use of New MakerBot: Terrifying Lego Space Zombies

DVice: ‘Replicator’ 3D printer does two colors, makes Thing-O-Matic weep

Woot!: CES 2012: The Replicator Prints the Future, One Drop of Plastic at a Time

GizmoWatch: MakerBot Replicator Showcased at 2012 CES

PC Advisor: MakerBot Replicator 3D-Prints Everything, Except ‘Coffe, Black’

Core 77: 3D Printing: MakerBot Industries’ New Dual-Extrusion Replicator

It’s been one day since the official launch of The Replicator! Some lucky people have even met the new machine in person at CES (Come say hello, in South hall 4, Booth 36839)! Check out the links below for coverage straight from the CES floor.

SPIKE TV: MakerBot Makes Your Ideas Come True

Gizmodo: Hands On With MakerBot’s Bigger, Better, Two Color 3D Printer

The Atlantic: The Wonderful World of Thingiverse

 New York Times: MakerBot Introduces Larger, Two Color 3-D Printer

Make: MakerBot Replicator Announced

Gizmodo Australia: MakerBot’s Replicator Prints Larger 3D Creations In Two Spectacular Colors

The Verge: MakerBot Replicator first hands-on (update: video)

Geeky Gadgets: MakerBot Replicator 3D Printer Launched

PCWorld: MakerBot Replicator 3D-Prints Everything Except ‘Coffe, Black’

Wired: The MakerBot Replicator (TM)

Hack a Day: Print Huge Stuff With the MakerBot Replicator

Fabbaloo: MakerBot Announces the Replicator

Geek.com: MakerBot announces latest model that is capable of two color 3D printin

Halloo.com: How a MakerBot Replicator Can Make Your Small Business

LiveScience.com: MakerBot Replicator Prints Bigger, More Colorful Objects

Tune in for live CES coverage on Spike!

Tune in to see Bre Pettis and the new Replicator!

Coverage starts at 1:45 PM PT; 4:45 PM ET.

If you’re just tuning in, yesterday was a big day for the newly launched MakerBot Replicator!  The latest in open source 3D printing features the ability to use two print heads for two-color printing or printing with dissolving support material.  Not only does this printer feature the largest build area ever for a MakerBot, but best of all it ships to you fully assembled and ready for printing!  For more info check out these great posts!

• Engadget:  MakerBot Goes Big with Replicator 3D Printer
• Gizmodo:  MakerBot’s Replicator Prints Larger 3D Creations in Two Spectacular Colors
• CNET: MakerBot Replicator 3D Printer Beams In
• PCMag:  MakerBot to Debut Next-Gen 3D Printer at CES
• Boing Boing:  MakerBot Replicator New 3D Printer
• Hackaday:  Print Huge Stuff with the MakerBot Replicator
• Laughing Squid:  MakerBot Replicator – A New Larger 3D Printer From MakerBot Industries
• TheVerge:  MakerBot Replicator New Personal 3D Printer Debut
• Hacker News:  Two Color MakerBot Released!
• ReadWriteWeb:  What is a MakerBot and Why Does It Matter?
• The Designer Monologues:  Insurgent Creative – The MakerBot Replicator
• BetaBeat:  MakerBot Replicator – Bigger Better and now in Color

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 10, 2012 (Brooklyn, NY) – MakerBot Industries is excited to announce the launch of its latest product, The MakerBot Replicator™, which will debut at CES in Las Vegas, NV on Tuesday, January 10th. Available in the MakerBot store for pre-order today!

The MakerBot Replicator™ is the ultimate personal 3D printer, with MakerBot Dualstrusion™ (2-color printing) and a bigger printing footprint, giving you the superpower to print things BIG! Assembled in Brooklyn by skilled technicians, the MakerBot Replicator™ is ready within minutes to start printing right out of the box. Starting at $1749, The MakerBot Replicator™ is an affordable, open source 3D printer that is compact enough to sit on your desktop. Want to print in two colors? Choose the Dualstrusion™ option!

With a build envelope that’s roughly the size of a loaf of bread, The MakerBot Replicator™ gives you the power to go big. Make an entire chess set with the press of a button. Friends, classmates, co-workers, and family will see the things you make and say “Wow!”

The MakerBot Replicator™ creates anything you can imagine with the new MakerBot Stepstruder™ MK8, the extruder is the part of the machine that turns raw feedstock, like ABS (what Lego® is made of) or PLA (a biodegradable material made from corn), into the objects you desire. You can order your MakerBot Replicator™ with single or dual MakerBot Stepstruders on it. By choosing the dual extrusion option, you’ll print with two different colors at the same time. MakerBot Dualstrusion™ unlocks the ability to make beautiful combinations of colors and opens the door to experimenting with with multi-material objects.

The MakerBot Replicator™ is ideal for personalized manufacturing, providing a new way to make the things you want and need. It is also an essential tool for children and students; parents and educators with a MakerBot Replicator™ offer the next generation an opportunity to learn the digital designing skills required to solve the problems of the future. Students with access to a MakerBot have an edge in the future job market. Just like the youth of the 1980’s, who had access to computers, children with access to a MakerBot Replicator™ will become the leaders who make a better tomorrow.

The MakerBot Replicator™ is the tool from tomorrow, today. In the two years since the company was founded, the capabilities of a MakerBot have grown from printing cupcake-sized objects in 2009 to printing things as large as an entire loaf of bread today on on the MakerBot Replicator™. MakerBot Industries continues to demonstrate its dedication to putting the tools of creativity into the hands of the those brilliant and bold enough to bring their imagination into the physical world.

Press Kit: View and download photos of The MakerBot Replicator™

View product specs and pre-order your MakerBot Replicator™ today!

Fast Company.com just posted a nice feature on MakerBot Industries and our CEO & Co-Founder Bre Pettis, complete with some awesome photos! The article will hit stands in Fast Company’s next print issue in the next couple weeks, but until then you can read the piece online.

PSFK asked a number of established innovators from around the world, including MakerBot’s Bre Pettis, for some insight into what young entrepreneurs should be on the lookout for in 2012. See Bre (a.k.a. The Maker King)’s thoughts on the power of sharing here. Check out the rest of the 2012 trend predictions from the full list of innovators while you’re at it!

IdeaMensch.com, a self-proclaimed “community for people with ideas,” is now featuring MakerBot’s Bre Pettis as the main profile on their homepage. Learn more about what inspires Bre here!

TheNextWeb knows that no robot gift guide would be complete without including MakerBot. Just posted yesterday, their Ultimate Robot Gift Guide features the Thing-O-Matic, alongside some awesome gifts like this Robot Tea Infuser and these Recycled Robot Ornaments. Don’t forget – Thing-O-Matic kits, and fully-assembled models, are $100 off through the holiday season, so get yours now!