. >> host: and now joining us on "the communicators" is enrique mouchant, desktop fab is the name of his company. >> guest: we distribute and design 3-d printer technologies, so we have a 3-d printer right here, and all of the items on the table have been printed by this machine. >> host: now printed, these are full-scale items. >> guest: yeah. so you can picture this as a computer-controlled -- [inaudible] you take plastic, run it through the heater, and layer by layer, build up a full 3-d item. >> host: and this is the printer right here. >> guest: yes. >> host: is this something that you made or invented? >> guest: no. we distribute this machine. >> host: you distribute this machine. okay. who invented this? >> guest: a company called bits from bytes out of england. >> host: and what is your role? what's your background? >> guest: electrical engineering. started my first business when i was 17, and through that, through manufacturing all those items, went off in prototype stuff and used 3-d printers to do that. so back at that time the machine were too expensive to own one. it see