Thank god I shop online...at least I can do something to protect my privacy there.
Italians deploy fearsome SPY MANNEQUINS to win Fashion Wars
Don't think you can escape personalised adverts by switching the computer off. Luxury shops have started to use seeing-eye mannequins that harvest data about customers in the real world and - yes - target ads so they can sell more. Packing technology that is used in airport security, the EyeSee mannequins from Italian company …
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Thursday 22nd November 2012 20:07 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Scarey
Visitors to my kitchen/studio often gasp as they catch sight of an unexpected "person" in the corner - actually a mannequin in some of my old clothes. It acts as a 3D sculpture reference model as it is a good modelling of the human body's proportions.
The natural looking eyes and a wig are what make it look life-like. The real art of bringing a mannequin to life is in the painting. Instead of a flat skin colour there should be natural gradations. One day I might try my hand at doing that.
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Thursday 22nd November 2012 20:43 GMT Anonymous Coward
Can the next version be mobile, so they can break out through the shop window and run out down the street after our pioneering electronica friends Kraftwerk as per "Showroom Dummies"? ;)
P.S.most of the earlier album "Radio-activity" was even more scary and interesting but no idea how you'd visualise it....