$2000 Replicator prints large objects, dual colors

The $10 million in venture capital for MakerBot is beginning to pay off I think. Sure, $2000 for the new MakerBot Replicator (CNET) is quite a steep price, but I think it fills a gap between the hobby crowd (read: Cube) and professional additive manufacturing, where printers usually cost in the tens of thousands. From the link:

One barrier to wider adoption might be price. The fully-featured Replicator, the model with dual extruders for printing two-color objects, costs $2,000. The monocolor Cube costs $1,300. Spools of ABS plastic, the printers' chief consumable, go for $50. Those figures aren't entirely out of reach, but they do put 3D printing out of Wal-mart.

I'm sure that in the not-too-distant future, we'll see the Replicator's price go below $1000. We're at a stage where the home computer was, say, 25 years ago.