By Emily Gertz
Just a few years ago, 3-D printing was the obscure obsession of a few hard-core tech hobbyists, engineer-artists, and design theorists. But now the medium–also called “fabbing,” as in small-scale fabrication–may be teetering on the edge of the mainstream, thanks to a recent $10 million infusion into the two-year-old company MakerBot Industries, which sells a compact 3-D printer as both a build-it-yourself kit and a pre-assembled machine.
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