FigurePrints FigurePrintsallows consumers to order 3D models of their individual characters in "World of Warcraft," a very popular online game. The start-up is partnering with the game publisher Blizzard Entertainment. Models cost $99.95 and delivery takes one month.

Freedom of Creation The company produces lampshades and lighting to customer design using RP, and also is researching the use of RP in making fabrics and furnishings.

FutureFactories.com Artist Lionel Theodore Dean's effort to produce mass-individualized products, including jewelry, household items such as candlesticks, furnishings and lighting. Some of the products are also carried by Materialise's MGX Division.

Gabriel and Evenhuis - Rapid Lamps The designers offer a range of lighting made using additive fabrication methods.

HeroBuilders.com The company offers miniature doll-like replicas of world leaders and red-blooded, flag-waving American super patriots, as well. RP is used to create the models and you can have your face on one for a fee. In addition, at long last you can have a Pez dispenser made in your own likeness. Fair warning: This may be the only RP-related site with an actual hate-mail section.

JuJups A subsidiary of Genomtri, a Singapore-based software producer providing a 3D design and print portal. The company's first product area is picture frames produced on Z Corp. color 3D printers. You design the frame shape, color, messages and other elements and they'll print the fame and even the picture that goes in it for less than US$30.

LandPrint.com Have them make you a three-dimensional color replica of your favortite mountain, harbor or other geographic feature using satellite imagery and neat software you install on your own computer. With prices starting at less than US$30 it's much cheaper than buying an actual mountain.

Materialise Lights The company has been a propelling force in bringing together a number of artists and designers to create a collection of lamps and furnishings made by additive fabrication. The designs show a wide range of styles give a hint at what the future might bring.

Mathematical LEGO® Sculptures Andrew Lipson, self-described professional nerd, has created numerous, complex sculptures from this popular toy. Many math surfaces and technical objects, but also copies of Escher's elliptical optical illusion drawings, complex buildings and other whimsys. What's interesting from the RP perspective is that he accomplishes this by layered construction from a self-written computer program. He has thus converted himself into a sort of RP machine. "Marvel at the wasted hours..."

OpenMoko OpenMoko is a subsidiary of FIC, a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer. The company has made the source code of its Neo 1973 cell phone available to the open source community, and has subsequently released the CAD design files of the mechanical design, as well. The hardware and software of the phone can be completely customized by users instead of just making the usual minor skin-level modifications.

Ponoko New Zealand-based Ponoko doesn't offer additive fabrication capability at present, but the company has announced intentions to do so. What's most interesting is that Ponoko has defined a very good framework for distributed manufacturing. Consumers can select from a variety of sheet materials that can be laser-cut and have their design made for themselves, or sold to the public. You can also sell your design file, so that others can manufacture the product or use it as a starting point for further improvement.

Puzzle Palace George Miller, owner and operator of this Sonoma, California-based company won the 2007 Dimension customer award contest with his Brain Gear puzzle. He uses several types of additive fabrication and more conventional technologies to create a wide variety of three dimensional puzzles.

SecondLife Manufactories for the Real Version of a Virtual World

For those individuals for whom reality has become an intrusive crutch, and who may need a physical copy of their alter-ego, Star-Command space ship, or some other damn thing that has been heretofore safely confined to a computer screen, there has arisen a class of companies to satisfy this very need. It was, of course, inevitable. Like death. Or Texas.

• Fabjectory Focuses on color models of avatars made using three dimensional printing technology from Z Corp.
• STARBASE C3 You space cadets out there, and there are many of you, can obtain models of various space ships made using FDM technology from Stratasys.

ToyBuilders.com Children of all ages can define and design their own toys, send the file to the company and shortly receive the physical item, completely painted and finished.