When she finally started following me regularly on Path, I made a point to regularly upload pictures of me and my sister (we happen to live in the same building) or of friends.
But for those not yet willing to shell out thousands of dollars for their own home 3D-printer, Shapeways offers another path to bring software models into reality, asking consumers and retailers to upload their designs shipping the results back to them, printed on high-end machines with a level of precision and in materials that no consumer 3D printer can yet achieve.