Portabee: A $500 3D printer you can finally afford November 23, 2012 2:52 PM Ricardo Bilton Ricardo Bilton Twitter Profile Recent Stories: Google could face fresh antitrust inspection over its display ad dominance Will 3D printed guns be impossible to control? Homeland Security thinks so Thinker Thing creates 3D objects using the power of your brain At $500, the Portabee aims to solve one of the biggest problems with 3D printers today: price.