Digital to physical examples

1. Wikipedia book!
Digital age translated into the Guttenburg printing press age

In preparation for this year's Wikimania conference, a small team of developers are raising money to print a physical copy of the open source online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia. 

The project would see 1,000 printed books at about 1,200 pages each, essentially bringing the collective crowdsourced knowledge of the internet to life in physical form.

Each volume will feature continuous page numbers meaning the last article could sit somewhere around page 1,193,014. It would take a 10 metre long, 2.5 metre high book case to store all of the works. 

https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2014/02/wikipedia-books-project

2. Tx.to
Enhancements in technology may have the potential to render books and records unnecessary baggage, bringing a shiver to the spine of bookshelf lovers everywhere, but with the trend in converting the digital to the physical showing no signs of slowing down, we may just rediscover new life in the old furniture yet...

Now two French entrepreneurs have created an online service that documents your text conversation and prints it onto a good old-fashioned physical scroll called Tx.to. As well as giving you the opportunity to re-read these exchanges in a physical format, the Tx.to service also offers users a chance to gain some insight into their text relationship. The Tx.to cloud will safely store messages, and using your data, you can research statistics on the history of your conversation with your partner; picking out things like the most used words or periods of highest activity. 
https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2014/03/tx-to

3. Vine flip
It feels like, at the moment, it's hard to look anywhere without watching a looping six-second video, and it's all thanks to new social media platform, Vine. We've already looked at a music video made from crowdsourced Vines, and now comes Vine Flip, an experiment in 'slowing down' the technology. By submitting recorded videos Vine Flip prints out the frames as a physical flip book that is then sent to the user. 

Much like the Vine equivalent of the Instagram printer, Instaprint, this project looks at bringing digital technologies into the physical realm by bridging old and new technologies.
https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2013/04/vine-flip

4. Lebox
Created by Mathieu Lecoupeur and Soy Phompraseuth, LEBLOX is an app that allows you to digitally build miniature, pixelated, Perler-style models that are then 3D-printed and delivered to your door. The creation element of the process uses augmented reality to give you a realistic impression of what your 3D design will look like, in its exact size and proportion. Designs that you particularly proud of can be shared with the LEBLOX community and printed by other users. 
https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2014/02/leblox

5. NailSnap
NailSnaps is the latest app following the trend of bringing Instagram photos into the real world as tangible objects, in this case as customized nail polish stickers. The project is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to finalize the app and print production facilities.
Within the app, users can decide how the design will appear, using either the entire image spread across the nails, or selecting specific sections of the image for each nail. After submitting a design, the stickers are printed and shipped from the manufacturing facility in Los Angeles. Eventually, the founders hope to expand the concept by creating a marketplace where popular designs can be sold to other users.
http://www.psfk.com/2014/03/favorite-instagram-pics-transformed-into-nail-art.html#!zq1g3

6. Facebook chat books

In this day and age, sometimes the great conversations in a friendship or relationship happen over Facebook chat. Unfortunately, Facebook chat is also an ephemeral and finicky medium, prone to blip-outs and lost data, not to mention the possibility that Facebook could one day go under entirely. Email, too, is not forever. Enter Memeoirs, the book-making service based in Povo, Italy that can write the epistolary novel of your online life.

The interface for Memeoirs is incredibly simple; you can simply connect your Facebook account to the service and select the person whose conversations with you you’d like included in the book. The process is automated, so no human will pry into your love letters (the company has taken on couples as its target audience, with endearing success stories on their website of how their clients fell in love over email).

http://www.psfk.com/2014/03/a-startup-is-printing-customized-books-of-personal-facebook-interactions.html#!zF93U