now you can take yourselfie portrait to a whole new dimension with 3d printers. just strike a pose. i love it. reporter: heads are turning and people are talking because of new technology hitting the
mainstream. a company called 3d makery has a kiosk that creates figurines of you, your spouse, child or pet. just use the company's shape- a-fy booth or have the company come to you with a hand scanner.
take the scanning of your car part by part. takes about 5 minutes. reporter: they can do it with your wheels. scanning, stay very still. reporter: a body scan takes 12 seconds. the machine uses light to
create an image then shipped to a 3d printer off site. in a matter of minutes, it's a mini you. tech experts say this is the wave of the future. anything you have in your house essentially you can print.
reporter: in fact, for $300 to $3,000, you can buy your own 3d printer at a big box store. walmart, home depot, sam's club, some office depots. reporter: workers at the kiosk are used to fielding questions.
people upload the design for free and there's millions of free files out there of everything. so i find it on the web and drag and drop it into a 3d program. yes. then from here, you connect it
to your printer. reporter: although you can make a copy of just about anything, duplicates of people are most popular. i can see my mouth on here. if you would like to
office depot 3d printing service,immortalize yourself with a 3d selfie there is a kiosk at the
raceway mall in freehold, new jersey.
