LAS VEGAS — Drawing in mid-air is about to become a thing.

Over the past two years, two companies have developed two different ways of creating 3D objects simply by drawing in the air with oversized pens. Now, one of those companies, WobbleWorks, LLC., is ready to take the nascent creative platform to the next level with a smaller pen that works better, the company promises.

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Unlike competitor CreoPop, which uses a special polymer and UV light to instantly harden colored gels into wiggly shapes, 3Doodler works much like a handheld 3D printer. The pen pushes PLA (or ABS) plastic through a super-heated nozzle at pen's end, which then instantly cools. The shapes you draw in space with 3Doodler then become real things.

3Doodler 2.0, which WobbleWorks is promoting through a new Kickstarter campaign and launching here at CES 2015, is one-fourth the size of its first 3D drawing pen and weighs almost 2 ounces. The body has been redesigned to adopt the popular anodized aluminum for the chassis.

One of the 3Doodler 2.0's creations.

All the machinery necessary to move and melt the PLC is jammed into the pen. Thus, the original pen was very thick — almost the size of a hot dog bun — but 3Doodler 2.0 has a new drive system, which should offer smoother drawing, a redesigned nozzle and better airflow for faster PLA cooling. Temperature and speed controls will supposedly make your 3D artwork more precise.

3Doodler uses heat, so it only works when plugged in. But the redesigned device has a new companion, the Jetpack, a large battery that you can plug into the pen; it promises up top three hours of mobile 3D doodling.

WobbleWorks, which launched the Kickstarter campaign on Monday, hopes to raise $30,000. No final pricing has been set for the new pen or Jetpack, but the company is offering a $150 “Jetsetter” pledge option (this includes the pen, Jetpack and four packs of PLA). WobbleWorks hopes to ship the product by April 2015; retail plans have not yet been announced.