{"id":6908,"date":"2012-11-23T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6908"},"modified":"2012-12-29T01:28:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T06:28:39","slug":"mannequins-that-look-back-at-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/mannequins-that-look-back-at-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Mannequins That Look Back At You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/112312_0848_MannequinsT1.jpg\" width=\"683\" height=\"454\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next time you look at a mannequin, keep in mind that it might be looking back at you. Andrew Roberts described the latest in mannequin-technology:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mannequins are now coming equipped with cameras that allow the store to monitor you.<\/li>\n<li>The cameras record your age, gender, and race and the store uses that information to maximize their sales\n<ul>\n<li>One store found that Chinese visitors generally left from one exit. It used that data to dispatch Chinese speaking staff to that exit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The mannequins can even learn to identify sales staff and then exclude them from its analysis.<\/li>\n<li>Soon the mannequins will also be able to hear what you say, to find out what you think about the outfits they&#8217;re wearing.<\/li>\n<li>This technology allows traditional retailers to compete with online stores which use detailed information from your computer to identify your shopping habits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the legal issues related to the practice, other ways this technology can be used, and why it&#8217;s better than overhead store cameras over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-11-19\/bionic-mannequins-spy-on-shoppers-to-boost-luxury-sales.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-11-19\/bionic-mannequins-spy-on-shoppers-to-boost-luxury-sales.html\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you look at a mannequin, keep in mind that it might be looking back at you. Andrew Roberts described the latest in mannequin-technology: Mannequins are now coming equipped with cameras that allow the store to monitor you. The cameras record your age, gender, and race and the store uses that information to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/112312_0848_MannequinsT1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6908"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6917,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908\/revisions\/6917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}