It's fitting that the newest 3D printer from Brooklyn's MakerBot Industries is called the Replicator. When we visited their studio, right there in the front of the shop was a MakerBot... built by a Makerbot.

And it wasn't even built by them. All of the machine designs that built that machine are made available to the public through the company's open source platform, Thingiverse, so a dedicated fan was able to make it themselves using a MakerBot and ended up trading it to the company for another MakerBot.

The Replicator, the second machine the company has released, was just announced in January and it will be interesting to see what kind of designs the open source MakerBot community will be able to come up with and share. The new Replicator added a second color to the machine and makes larger prints, now up to the size of a loaf of bread.

MakerBot isn't the first 3D manufacturer, but with the Replicator going for $1,750, they are the first to set the price point for your average

Last week, while covering an unrelated event in Park City, Utah, we stumbled upon a demonstration by a couple of guys from the company Liquipel, who we'd been hearing about for a few days and had been attempting to book for "This Could Be Big" since first seeing their video of an apparently waterproofed iPhone.

The video, and the subsequent coverage of it on the Internet, had boosted Liquipel's visibility through the roof, but skeptic we remained... until the guys started dunking their specially treated iPhone into a tank of water, in front of our very eyes. Incredulous, we poked, we prodded, and examined the surface of the phone, and everything remained in working order despite repeated exposure to water. Their explanations were somewhat vague, but the results seemed to be there. Of course, the kicker was when they brought out a specially treated piece of tissue paper that demonstrated the same resistance to water as their Liquipel-treated iPhone.

Convinced that there was legitimacy

Who would design a ring that wirelessly transmits your pulse to your significant other through a pillow insert, so when you lay down to go to sleep you can feel their heart beat? Only an interactive designer with a boyfriend who works on offshore oil rig.

Joanna Montgomery, a recent college graduate from Scotland, designed the product, called Pillow Talk, because she wanted to develop technology that allows for a more intimate interaction between people.

"I realized that technology has become very literal, everything involves a screen. You can Facebook someone, or text them, or email them, but it's quite two dimensional and there isn't any real richness or depth behind it."

She originally designed Pillow Talk as her final college project, but she is currently putting the final touches on the design before it comes to market at some point this summer.

Talking to people about Pillow Talk around the office this week, I get the feeling that it's going to take a little while for Pillow