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As an avid online shopper, I am still reluctant to purchase clothes or shoes online unless I have tried them on in the store first. The reason? Fear it won’t fit, and the disappointment of having to send it back, etc.
Well, help is at last (nearly!) at hand!
An Estonian firm have developed an “online torso”, that you can input your measurements, and have it “model” the item for you. At first the developers thought it wasn’t possible, but by starting off on the simplest form (the male of the species!), they have developed the torso to “shape-shift” into 100,000 different shapes and sizes to allow male shoppers to gauge a better idea of what the garment would look like before buying it.
It is not currently ran in real-time (someone has to dress the mannequin and take pictures, etc, for now) but once it is through the testing stages, we should see it used by a lot of online stores.
“Respect your elders” was a common phrase in my rural community when growing up; for a young person, being perceived as being disrespectful to the elderly would have gotten you an immediate telling off from the person who noticed, and a BIG telling off from the parentals.
These days, being old can be the coolest thing ever, and attract followers such as Chris Evans, an ex-PM’s wife and Peter Andre. For those of you in the know, I am talking about Ivy Bean, Twitter’s oldest (unconfirmed) Tweeter.
In the year Ivy was online (she has recently passe away), she gained 56,653 followers, and posted 1,000 tweets. Although the posts mainly consisted of her day to day activities, she seems to have engaged a wide variety of people, and touched a lot of people.
This is one of those stories where technology really can bring people together.