Now the RealView 3D scanners are here to bring this technology to the everyday household. This new age device has a rotating platform that spins the object while two cameras scan the surface.

If your hardware is powerful enough for the task, rendering 3D objects isn't too difficult to do with Windows, a Kinect device and some free apps.

Capture is a new iPhone app created by the Y Combinator-backed startup Standard Cyborg. By leveraging the sensors and cameras in Apple’s newest smartphones, it allows anyone to perform 3D scans ...

The Structure Sensor turns iPads into 3D scanners. Occipital The new Structure Sensor from startup company Occipital promises to convert iPads and iPhones into 3D scanners.

Minecraft fans are a passionate lot, so you have to figure they’ll go crazy about scanning their own characters into the voxel-graphics game.