Staples Starts Selling 3-D Printer 65
An anonymous reader writes "Soon anyone will be able to head out to the store and buy a 3D printer: 'Staples, one of the leading office supply retailers in the U.S. announced it would begin selling 3-D Systems' entry level personal 3-D printer, The Cube. This is quite simply the single largest 3-D printer retail move to date by any 3-D printer manufacturer.' 'The Cube is one of a number of 3-D printers designed with traditional consumers in mind. Specifically, this unit can print items up to 5.5 inches tall, wide and long in one of 16 different colors. The retail bundle includes 25 free design templates to get users started but the real fun is designing and building something all your own.'"
Staples huh... (Score:4, Funny)
So it will cost 3 times what you could get it for normally?
Seriously... Everything they sell is overpriced by at least 2x.
They're for office workers. (where people who come get stuff don't care how much their employer spends)
And for those emergency 'I GOTTA HAVE IT RIGHT NOW' type things.
"And no i don't wanna join your rewards club dammit. I just want this replacement mouse. No i really don't want to join. NO! i don't want to join. Just ring this up. It's $15. Here take my money. No i don't wanna join the rewards club and i'm REALLY sure."
Re:cartridge based (Score:4, Funny)
of course it would be a proprietary cartridge based piece of shit.
but... but... these cartridges will helpfully warn you that you are running out at 50%-capacity and stop working at 30%-capacity. It is a very valuable service.
I love it (Score:4, Funny)
x 1000 (Score:1, Funny)
"That's pretty cool, Sheldon. What are you printing?"
"I'm printing some Warhammer figurines. Not the 40K ones, either. Only the real ones."
"That...that doesn't look like a figurine."
(looks) "What? Very nice. A cock. Ha ha, very funny."