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The company, Fits.me, enlisted Maarja Kruusma, a biorobotics professor at the University of Tallinn, to help with the project. Kruusma talked with tailors and fashion designers to determine what measurements were most important in determining the proper fit. For men, it was shoulder and neck, and, for women, it was much more complicated, so the team focused on developing a male mannequin. (They hope to have a female mannequin completed by October.) The end result is a creepy torso that determines your measurements, and accordingly shifts its panels, which are placed at the neck, upper arms and stomach. "I guess it's kind of like The Terminator," Kruusma told the BBC.
That quote can only mean one thing: these morphing torsos have been sent from the future to make sure you don't purchase that lavender polo that's too tight across the chest. [From: BBC News, via: Engadget and Fits.me]
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Subscribe to commentsHeikkiJul 28th 2010 2:58PM
Hi Caleb,
I'm from Fits.me and wanted to thank you for the story. I just found out that the BBC's story must have some truth to it - my IT architect had just named the central control system the Skynet (the same that controls robots in the movie Terminator). He assures the humankind he can terminate Skynet by a simple click. For now, we're all safe!
(btw, what BBC does not mention, our lead scientist has a belt in karate, so if - in an unlikely event - robots do go out of control they'll be hacked to pieces in no time)