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Tech companies, we wish you'd stop telling us about amazing-sounding gizmos that don't yet exist. We've spent well over a decade fueling our skepticism and bias by writing about, and occasionally mocking, all kinds of vaporware—and that attitude has only grown bolder during today's crowdfunding-riddled era.
That made the promise of Glowforge all the harder to stomach. An industrial-grade laser-cutting machine for the home, priced at $1,995 via a crowdfunded pre-sale? No way. We can barely peruse the Alibaba listings for laser-cutting machines without taking out multiple mortgages on our homes, and yet we're supposed to believe that we can laser-slice precise shapes into solid materials with a coming-soon device that costs less than a desktop-sized Makerbot Replicator 3D printer.
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