People have been looking for something like this because they are bored of photos.' ‘Our models reproduce everything, every stray hair, every eyelash and every curve of the body. In an age which encourages us to post the minutiae of our lives on Facebook and has seen the chattering class replaced by the Twittering class, a 3D alter-ego seems a natural progression. A new company called Levavo has just developed a process which means anyone can walk into its London shop and have, two days later, a plastic mini-reproduction of themselves that promises complete verisimilitude in every detail. Not by some fiendish mastermind, but by the very latest in 3D scanning technology.Īnd you could do it, too. As my beau discovered, I have been cloned. They’ve been known to add: ‘And a good thing, too!’ My nearest and dearest often say: ‘When they made you, they broke the mould.’
My beau gives a terrified yell and a startled diner spills coffee down his trousers. I am even smaller than a Munchkin in The Wizard Of Oz. It is terrifyingly similar - the only difference is that I am now only six inches high. The hair is the same and so are the shoes and jewellery. It is wearing the same clothes as me, and has every one of my features.
When he returns I am gone, but on my chair is a plastic replica of myself. I am sitting in a pavement cafe with a beau, sipping an espresso.
Journalistic guinea-pig: Petronella Wyatt got her own Mini-Me made up - a tiny plastic version of herself made by new company Levato
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