Tag: Mannequins

EyeSee – seeing-eye mannequins that check out customers for age, sex, and race

November 24, 2012

Seeing-eye mannequins

The high-fashion mannequin maker Almax has released the new $5000 EyeSee mannequins. The mannequins contain cameras in their eyes that are connected to facial recognition software that analyzes customers’ faces, classifying them by age, sex, race, and ethnicity. The cameras also can tell merchandisers when the store is getting crowded, and what products or clothing are attracting the most attention.

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Art, Crazy Stuff, Globalism

Mannequins Decorate Portugal Bathrooms

March 27, 2008

Mannequins Decorate Portugal Bathrooms

Men use public bathrooms decorated with female mannequins at a shopping center in Sao Joao da Madeira, northern. You might be surprised to come across a scantily clad model in a public bathroom, but shoppers at Portugal’s Eight Avenue mall in Sao Joao da Madeira are beginning to like it. Spread across the mens’ and ladies’ bathrooms, mannequins scantily dressed stand in suggestive poses as visitors meet them, first with shock, then with a smile. More photos after the jump.

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