If, like me, you were of an impressionable age when you first saw the film Mannequin – you know the one: shop-window dummy Kim Cattrall comes alive at night because, hey, she's actually an Ancient Egyptian princess or something – you'll be delighted to learn real life has finally caught up with Hollywood fantasy.
If, like me, you were of an impressionable age when you first saw the film Mannequin – you know the one: shop-window dummy Kim Cattrall comes alive at night because, hey, she's actually an Ancient Egyptian princess or something – you'll be delighted to learn real life has finally caught up with Hollywood fantasy.
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Barry Didcock
Well, sort of. The mannequins in question can't rollerskate or create fabulous window displays or marry Andrew McCarthy but they can watch, record and communicate. After a fashion, anyway.
An Italian company has developed a bionic mannequin – a bioniquin? – called EyeSee which has a camera embedded in one of its creepy plastic peepers and facial recognition software of the sort used by spooks and police forces, which can analyse shoppers' faces to tell their gender, age and ethnicity. It also has audio recording equipment and an internet connection so it can upload its data to the mothership within seconds of the kids asking why the naked male dummies being dressed in the window don't have willies.
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Beware the unblinking eyes of shop mannequins
If, like me, you were of an impressionable age when you first saw the film Mannequin – you know the one: shop-window dummy Kim Cattrall comes alive at night because, hey, she's actually an Ancient Egyptian princess or something – you'll be delighted to learn real life has finally caught up with Hollywood fantasy.
Well, sort of. The mannequins in question can't rollerskate or create fabulous window displays or marry Andrew McCarthy but they can watch, record and communicate. After a fashion, anyway.
An Italian company has developed a bionic mannequin – a bioniquin? – called EyeSee which has a camera embedded in one of its creepy plastic peepers and facial recognition software of the sort used by spooks and police forces, which can analyse shoppers' faces to tell their gender, age and ethnicity. It also has audio recording equipment and an internet connection so it can upload its data to the mothership within seconds of the kids asking why the naked male dummies being dressed in the window don't have willies.
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