Photos to figurines: Japan company offers 3D figurines in likeness of lost loved onesTokyo, Mar 28(AZINS) Missing your grandma or grandpa? Well, now you can be sure they are watching over you, thanks to a Japanese company that can turn old photos into 3D figurines--complete with an urn.

Roice Entertainment is offering the full-body figures up to 30 centimetres (12 inches) tall in the spitting image of lost loved ones using 3D printing technology.

As an optional add-on, a tiny battery-sized container made of brass in which ashes can be kept is available and can be inserted in the figure, the Osaka-based company said.

Its website shows a figurine of a silver-haired man in a Japanese yukata robe sitting on the floor, next to a photo of him alive in a similar pose.

The idea came after a mother who had lost her teenage daughter asked the company if they could turn old photos into a 3D likeness, company President Koichi Furusho told AFP on Friday.

"The mother told us she wanted to somehow revive her daughter, who had died at a young age, as a 3D figure," he said.

But the figurines--and urns--don't come cheap

A 20 cm plaster figure costs 100,000 yen ($884) and takes about two months to make, according to the company's website. A 30 cm one is double that, at 200,000 yen, while the urn has a 30,000 yen price tag.