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6 September 2003

COMING soon to a department store near you: a fitting room that warns you “your bum looks big in that” before you humiliate yourself in public.

British company Qinetiq has devised a system using 3D cameras that not only snap the potential customer as he or she cavorts in front of the mirror, but also record precise measurements from multiple points on his or her body. That information is then fed into a computer that will tell you if you look absolutely fabulous or give you a thumbs-down in the style of UK fashion police Trinny and Susannah.

The inventors…

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