Catching up on my RSS feed reading and came across an interesting company that allows you to design 3D objects, and then have them printed and sent to you in 10 days.
http://www.shapeways.com/To get an idea of how 3D printing works, check out this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQoTro9WfbQThe applications of this technology vary widely, but one idea that came to mind was producing meeples. It's more expensive than buying wooden meeples on-line, so you would need to have some special need. Perhaps a new shape of meeple that isn't available? Or you want a semi-transparent meeple...
List of materials available at this time:
http://www.shapeways.com/about/material-options
