In the days of yore, the upper echelon of society would commission statues of themselves, hoping to perserve their image in eternity. Now that we have Facebook and Instagram for that, the elite can set themselves apart with Chinese company Pinla3D, which will print a full, lifelike, life-sized replica of a human being for a whopping $28,550.If you've got that extra dough burning a hole in your pocket, you probably can afford the flight to China necessary for you to visit one of Pinla3D's offices. There, you are scanned in a process that takes about three minutes before getting sent back home to wait for Pinla3D to finish printing the new you. If you still don't feel you've spent enough, the process comes in couple and family portrait editions. You can spend over $100,000 on a family of four, giving a new take on the family portrait.What you get for that serious chunk of change, though, is rather amazing. A full, 1:1 scale model of yourself and/or your loved ones, down to the crinkles in your favorite shirt and the sauce you forgot to wipe from your face as you stepped into the scanning chamber—a remarkable feat considering most 3D-printed objects you see these days don't have the resolution to match your average Xbox game. And $28,000 really isn't so bad when you consider how much it probably costs to get your likeness carved into marble these days.Pinla3D makes most of its money selling smaller 3D-printed models. A 12.5cm model will run you about $160, and and a 25cm model costs about $580. If you happen to be in the area, but don't quite have thirty thousand extra clams, one of these models might be more in your price range.To see the wide range of 3D printed models you can buy, or to set up a scanning appointment, you can visit the site here. Just be sure you can read simplified Han Chinese (or have Google Translate on your browser).
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