MakerBot at Rooster Teeth Expo – July 5-7 in Austin, Texas
Gaming Meets the Internet at RTX – and MakerBot Will Be There!
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MakerBot, a global leader in desktop 3D printing, is participating in the third annual RTX in Austin, Texas, July 5-7, 2013. MakerBot will demonstrate its popular MakerBot® Replicator® 2 Desktop 3D Printer at RTX.
RTX is sponsored by Rooster Teeth, a creative web series and gaming content creator. Rooster Teeth has one of the most popular and longest running web series of all-time, Red vs. Blue, now entering its 11th Season with more than 1.5 billion total video views. Rooster Teeth owns and operates one of the most viewed non-music YouTube channels in the world, with more than 2.5 million subscribers. It also has the #1 gaming podcast on iTunes with 3 million monthly downloads. RoosterTeeth.com has also won multiple awards, including the 2011 IAWTV Award for Best Animated Web Series, and is a Guinness World Record holder for Most Successful Web Series. |
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| WHAT: | RTX is a great fit with MakerBot, as Rooster Teeth has its own MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer; and the RTX audience is made up of innovators, inventors, and avid 3D printing enthusiasts. | |
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RTX 2013
Austin Convention Center BOOTH #538 Austin, TX |
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| WHY: | Founded in 2009, Brooklyn-based MakerBot has grown to be a leader in desktop 3D printing. MakerBot desktop 3D printers are used by engineers, designers, researchers, and people who just like to make things. The MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printer has been named Popular Mechanics’ “Overall Winner” for best 3D printer and has won numerous awards, including honored as one of Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2012; “Best Emerging Tech” at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show; Popular Mechanics’ Editor’s Choice Award; the Popular Science Product of the Year; a TechCrunch Crunchies Award for best hardware start-up; and a Fast Company 2012 Innovation by Design Award. MakerBot was named by Fast Company as “One of the World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Consumer Electronics” and highlighted in Entrepreneur magazine’s “100 Brilliant Companies.” The company has been featured on the cover of WIRED, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Inc., Worth, The Colbert Report, Fast Company, Engadget, Make: Magazine, Rolling Stone, Time.com, Entrepreneur, CNN, Financial Times, National Public Radio, Vogue Italia and many others. Follow MakerBot at MakerBot.com. | |
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MakerBot
Jenifer Howard, 203-273-4246
jenifer.howard@makerbot.com
Source: MakerBot
Released July 2, 2013