While online shopping has taken over most facets of modern retail, buying clothes via the interwebs is something more of a hard sell. The Fits.me shape-shifting mannequin is here to make that a little easier -- for men, anyway. Earlier this year the company created a
robotic torso comprised of flexible panels that can shift between thousands of different shapes and sizes from small to extra large. A clothing company puts a new shirt on the bot and a camera captures it cycling through a variety of body types like a T-1000 sinking into a pit of molten steel. When you enter your measurements online, the e-tailer looks up the appropriate pics and, hey presto, you can see how you'll
really look in that Warwick Tailored semi-cutaway. There's a quick demo video after the break and, if you're looking for a new shirt, you can virtually try on a variety of Hawes & Curtis offerings recently added at the source link. Sorry ladies: latest word is that a mammary-equipped model isn't due for at least another few months.
posted July 21st 2010 9:56AM
Looks good, until it decides it wants its shirt back. Then you're dead.
@shaynes
Especially if it got stuck on the man boobs setting. It would have to hide it's shame
@shaynes
GET BIG
@shaynes How about for females? Different cup sizes?
@shaynes
HALT, PRESENT RETURN TICKET FOR SHIRT. YOU HAVE 30 SECS TO COMPLY.
@shaynes - Nicey! Say it again please! (claps!!!!)
@POZ
Someone please help me with the math!! Long time since I calculated combinations and permutations, but seems to me that it would require a very large amount of pictures per shirt!!
In their website they give an example with the following variables available:
Height: 21 different choices
Neck: 10 different choices
Chest: 12 different choices
Waistline: 18 different choices
Wrist to neck: 23 different choices
Torso type: 3 different choices
And the shirt could be 6 different sizes (XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL)
Can someone come with a number of different combinations for a single shirt? I calculated but not sure about it since the number that I got of pictures required to cover all the possibilities in one single shirt is outrageous to me, making this idea impractical in real life. Can someone come with a solid number and the formula used? Thanks
I thought "ladies first" was still applicable :p
I didn't know there were robots on the Jersey Shore....
Haha it was only a matter of time before this happened
Sensible and efficient
I could have swore this was posted as the fist.me shape-shifter.
Why can't my body do that...
Okay, you work on getting angry, ill get the gamma radiation.
@BlackedOut Or get hungry. Because i've heard that works too.
If they want it to be accurate for most men shopping online they need to make it so that the gut will enlarge too.
Is there a "how would I look in it if I keep eating this way" option?
I have a part of my body that shape-shifts to the site of a naked woman
@amirmah
gross! leave your mom out of this!
Meh, I do that all the time, when i walk by hot girls. :)
I'd actually find this pretty useful for online shopping, especially for using companies that dick around with non-standard sizing.
The whole idea of advertising is to sell you the fantasy. Now how is that going to help sell more clothes?
@calvinki
my thought too, some of the forms really did not show off the clothes well. good luck selling that idea to a shop.
@calvinki
The idea here is not to sell more clothes, but to do honest, efficient business, like good companies do.
Bad marketing tries to sell more, whatever the mean. Good marketing let's people know about how your product or service is actually beneficial, making people want to buy your product.
its the terminator!
@spyder "Take off your clothes, and give them to me."
By clicking on the 'New Visual Guide' link, it actually works extremely well...
http://www.hawesandcurtis.com/mens-formal-shirts-striped-ref_WTCFD027-K03
Will it accurately show me how I look with missing upper extremities?
Autobots Roll Out!!!
Wow... they sure do know how to waste money.
- AdamZ
It looks like something Commander Shepard might wear.
@Ethan the shirt or the clothesbot
Does it also shift for the pectoral fat some men have? Because let's face it, moobs exists!
Of course all this could be circumvented it manufacturers would just standardize their sizes. In a shirt I wear anything from a small to a medium. In shoes my size ranges from an 8.5 for something like Converse to a 10.5 for some dress shoes.
Really, it's only a dressmaker's dummy with some motors attached to it. They could do this before if they wanted to spend the money on a visual aid.