Just because you are paranoid does not mean that the Mannequin is not watching you.


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Retailers are introducing the EyeSee, sold by Italian mannequin maker Almax SpA, to glean data on customers much as online merchants are able to do. The $5,072 device has spurred shops to adjust window displays, store layouts and promotions to keep consumers walking in the door and spending.

“It’s spooky,” said Luca Solca, head of luxury goods research at Exane BNP Paribas in London. “You wouldn’t expect a mannequin to be observing you.

”The EyeSee looks ordinary on the outside, with its slender polystyrene frame, blank face and improbable pose. Inside, it’s no dummy. A camera embedded in one eye feeds data into facial-recognition software like the kind used by police. It logs the age, gender and race of passers-by.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/e...story.html

(11-24-2012 05:23 PM)dcCid Wrote:  Just because you are paranoid does not mean that the Mannequin is not watching you.


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Retailers are introducing the EyeSee, sold by Italian mannequin maker Almax SpA, to glean data on customers much as online merchants are able to do. The $5,072 device has spurred shops to adjust window displays, store layouts and promotions to keep consumers walking in the door and spending.

“It’s spooky,” said Luca Solca, head of luxury goods research at Exane BNP Paribas in London. “You wouldn’t expect a mannequin to be observing you.

”The EyeSee looks ordinary on the outside, with its slender polystyrene frame, blank face and improbable pose. Inside, it’s no dummy. A camera embedded in one eye feeds data into facial-recognition software like the kind used by police. It logs the age, gender and race of passers-by.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/e...story.html

They"ll have about 100 million women logged........ and about 10K men.

So it tracks race. Anybody have a problem with that?

(11-24-2012 08:16 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  So it tracks race. Anybody have a problem with that?

Well, if it involved getting them kicked out of the store ASAP, you would certainly be supportive.

(11-25-2012 11:21 AM)RobertN Wrote:  

(11-24-2012 08:16 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  So it tracks race. Anybody have a problem with that?

Well, if it involved getting them kicked out of the store ASAP, you would certainly be supportive.

They wouldn't need mannequins for that. Koreans do it just fine.