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Store Offers Kinect Body Scanner To Help You Find Jeans That Fit

Posted by samzenpus on from the tailor-of-tomorrow dept.

itwbennett writes "For those of you who can't count on a friend to tell you that a little more air should come between you and your Calvins, a Bloomingdales store in Palo Alto has just the solution: An Xbox Kinect-based body scanner that will help you find your best fit. While body measuring systems aren't new, using the Xbox Kinect is a much more affordable solution. Which means that soon we'll all have the opportunity for a computer to tell us that we should 'avoid wearing low to mid rise jeans.'"

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  1. where is my clothing synthesizer? by warrenb10 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just about every time I try to buy clothes I walk away thinking about how they used to predict that in the future (that is, by now) we'd stand in front of a big screen that projected an image of us, we'd be able to fiddle with some knobs to pick clothing, see how it would look on us, and it would get custom-made to not just fit perfectly but also in whatever fabric, color, style, etc. we wanted. Note to the folks who make 3D printers, make one that does fabric.

    1. Re:where is my clothing synthesizer? by jamesh · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Just about every time I try to buy clothes I walk away thinking about how they used to predict that in the future (that is, by now) we'd stand in front of a big screen that projected an image of us, we'd be able to fiddle with some knobs to pick clothing, see how it would look on us, and it would get custom-made to not just fit perfectly but also in whatever fabric, color, style, etc. we wanted. Note to the folks who make 3D printers, make one that does fabric.

      Sweat shop slave labour is cheaper.

  2. it will work great* by citizenr · · Score: 4, Funny

    with 5cm (or worse) error rate from few meters.

    *on fat people?

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    1. Re:it will work great* by MightyYar · · Score: 3, Informative

      We use both. I'm an engineer, so I'm biased, but there is plenty of metric going on in the US - a certain software program involved with the Mars exploration program notwithstanding :)

      We mostly use imperial units for stuff that doesn't matter, like milk or the speed of cars down highways. It makes sense - why should I toss all of my grandmother's cookbooks, or even go through the effort of converting them? Even then, we have both metric and imperial units printed on all of the products, and even our speedometers... which is pretty handy when driving in Canada.

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  3. Already know wha I want/need by smooth+wombat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I already know what jeans fit me. Stores simply refuse to get them in my size since I'm not a hippo.

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