Certainly, the Replicator marks a big step over its predecessor, the Thing-O-Matic, introducing dual-extrusion for two-colored printing and a much larger printing area, letting users create standalone objects roughly the size of a loaf of bread.
Neighbors said Mr. Holmes spent at least some of his childhood in a two-story, cream-colored house with a Spanish tile roof in an upper-middle-class San Diego neighborhood.
It is being offered with his Nobel diploma, a handsome two-page vellum document that contains an original hand-colored picture of a long-haired youth in a blue tunic holding the Rod of Asclepius.