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    Sagan's Avatar Carl Sagan
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    Why take selfies when you can print out a 3D miniature copy of yourself?



    3D printing color figures of yourself is threatening to become a trend—in Japan last year designers PARTY opened a temporary 3D printing photo booth In a Tokyo gallery where people could turn up, get scanned, and walk away with a mini-figurine of themselves. And now, following on from that, comes Twinkind who are offering a similar service, but these guys are based in Germany.

    Much like the photo booth in Japan Twinkind is a temporary pop up studio, so will only be open for a limited time in Hamburg. The scanning happens very fast, "in the blink of an eye" according to their website, and uses a multi-camera setup to get maximum detail—and you can even take your pet along to get scanned and printed too.

    But it doesn't come cheap, starting at around $300 for a 15cm figurine and going up to $1700 for a 35cm one, which is actually an unnervingly large size for a figurine of yourself. Give it a few years and they'll be one of these studios on every street corner (I hope).

    http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/b...re-of-yourself







    Naked miniatures in 3...2...

    http://youtu.be/zSgiXGELjbc

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    Wow, that's pretty cool. I'm sure people will come up with some very creative things with their figurines once it becomes cheaper and more mainstream, lol.

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    Shadow clone jujitsu!!!

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    Awesome =]

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