www.gizmag.com: It's been almost a year since the 3Doodler debuted on Kickstarter, raising a whopping US$2.3 million in the process, and since then we've been curious to see just exactly what a "3D drawing pen" can do. Luckily, WobbleWorks was more than happy to show off its new sketching tool and let us try it out for ourselves at IFA's Showstoppers event during CES. In short, it's fun and easy to pick up, but don't expect to craft anything too elaborate on your first try.
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I read about the 3Doodler last semester in another article that was introducing the product and I was so happy to find another related article today. I think the concept of having a miniature 3d creator in the palm of your hand is incredible. I would love to get my hands on one of these little guys and see what I could create. Like Jonathan Fincher was saying, this product looks very difficult to use properly and would take a good amount of practice to master the art. The possibilities are almost endless, but the overall look of the final products are not aesthetically pleasing. Since the plastic comes in 3mm sticks, it must be difficult to form smooth surfaces. I think over time this product is going to be a huge hit, but for now it still needs some development.
I want this! I've always liked 3-Dimensional representations, but have not been great at sculpture. With this, it's additive sculpture, and less subtractive sculpture. I'm good at drawing, so this will make more sense in my mind mind while creating. I hope that these become more popular and at a reasonable price so that I can make models by hand and use some skills I already have.
It seems that the 3Doodler opens up a lot of possibilities, but I agree with Keith that the tool could still use a good amount of improvement. All the same, I would absolutely love to try one out. Also, though it's not very pragmatic for the company or for the users, I really appreciate that the supposed purpose of the tool is just "for fun" -- it's rather nice that not everything in the would needs to be useful.
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